Garth Kroeker

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

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Book Recommendation: "Behave" by Robert Sapolsky

Behave is over 700 pages long. Its size may lead to some potential readers being intimidated, but I found it an engaging, often entertainin...

Monday, April 9, 2018

Steven Pinker's optimistic new book

I'm a Steven Pinker fan...I really appreciate his optimism about the state of the world, and the future of the world, an optimism which ...

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Depression Treatment Guidelines

I encourage having a look at the September 2016 issue of The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, which summarizes treatment recommendations for ...

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Mindfulness: is the evidence exaggerated?

Mindfulness-based techniques are now mainstream in psychotherapy. A recent review and look at the evidence, published by Nicholas Van Dam ...

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Twitter in mental health

I wanted to learn a little bit about Twitter recently, so I started a Twitter account (@DrGarthK). In past years I assumed that the Twitte...

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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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