Garth Kroeker

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

Monday, October 7, 2019

Indistractable: Book Review

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  Indistractable , by Nir Eyal, is an instruction manual, teaching us how to make healthy choices with our attention and activities, in the ...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

Review: "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Lukianoff and Haidt

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The Coddling of the American Mind:   This is another book I recommend as an important, timely review of contemporary issues relating to mode...
Sunday, June 9, 2019

Review: "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt

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I recommend this book. In The Righteous Mind , Jonathan Haidt shows that different people have different foundations which underlie their ...

The Psychology of Meetings

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What does psychology teach us about the components of an effective or positive meeting? Daniel Kahneman described psychological dynamics i...
Monday, October 22, 2018

"The Worried Well"

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Sometimes, the phrase "the worried well" is used to describe people with problems which are felt to be minor or which would resolv...
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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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