Garth Kroeker

a discussion about psychiatry, mental illness, emotional problems, and things that help

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker: A Book Review, Part 3

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So, in conclusion, Pinker's book is very important and can be broadly applied not only to understanding and working towards continued re...

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker: A Book Review, Part 2

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The first section of Pinker's book is an exhaustive review of violence rates throughout history.  This even includes looking beyond our ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker: A Book Review, Part 1

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I have just finished Steven Pinker's book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined .  I think it is a masterpiece o...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Deep Pressure Stimulation for anxiety, ADHD, insomnia, or autism

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Someone was telling me last week about a snug sweater that is available for your pet dog or cat, which is intended to soothe anxiety or ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The obsolescence of paper journals and conferences

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I was reading an editorial article the other day, entitled "A word to the wise about ketamine" by Alan Schatzberg ( American Journ...
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GK
I've been a psychiatrist since July, 2000. Most of my clinical experience has been with university students who have come to my outpatient clinic. For the first two years of my practice, I completed a subspecialty fellowship in mood disorders, during which I was trying to help patients struggling with treatment-resistant depression or bipolar disorder. I enjoy trying to combine ideas from different fields within the sciences and humanities--I love the idea of a creative, collaborative, interdisciplinary, yet also evidence-based approach to thinking about the mind, about medicine, and about life. I particularly like to indulge in metaphor and use analogies as a part of my therapeutic style. Yet, I find that much of my work as a physician can be simple and pragmatic, and I believe that there often can be straightforward medical solutions to many of the ailments my patients tell me about.
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