Garth Kroeker

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

Friday, February 24, 2017

Always Question

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The freedom to question is a foundation of healthy living. In our nation, we experience this freedom in the form of constitutional rights ...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Mediterranean Diet for Treating Depression

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Jacka et al. have just published in BMC Medicine (January 30, 2017) the results of a study showing that healthy dietary change leads to sign...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Compassion vs. Empathy: Reflections on Paul Bloom's Book

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Paul Bloom, in his recent book called Against Empathy,  challenges us to question the role of empathy as a vital ingredient of goodness or m...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Hallucinogens in mental health

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Hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, and ayahuasca have been used to treat depression and addictions, and to help with the psycholo...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Healing Divisions: Empathy, Filter Bubbles, and Free Speech

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There is a lot of conflict and division in the world.  The recent U.S. election is just one of many examples of this. What can be done t...
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About Me

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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