Garth Kroeker

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

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Medical Education

Medicine is a very strenuous professional program, but potentially full of incredible intellectual stimulation and personal challenge. Hav...

Review: "The Case against Education"

Bryan Caplan, an economist from George Mason University, has written a book called The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a...

Friday, September 21, 2018

Helicopter Parenting vs. Free-Range Parenting

There are many items in the news these days, encouraging "free-range parenting" instead of "helicopter parenting." A ...

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 ...

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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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