Garth Kroeker

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

Friday, June 11, 2021

Mental Health Reform: reflections & ideas for change

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On February 1, 2020 I began work as a psychiatrist at my own private office.   Before then I worked at a large academic institution for abou...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Review: Sex at Dusk by Lynn Saxon

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I read this book a second time recently.   I appreciate that such a scholarly and well-researched text was written by an amateur scientist. ...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty

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 Thomas Piketty is a French economist, whose book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" is a great analysis of the history of weal...
Monday, January 11, 2021

COVID-19, Psychiatry, and Politics: an update and reflection on 2020

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 COVID-19 update January 2021 I come to this issue as a psychiatrist.  I am not an infectious disease specialist, immunologist, virologist, ...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

BC COVID-19 Update, July 18, 2020

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The management of the pandemic in BC has been very successful, thanks to everyone's hard work and sacrifice over the past months. Some...
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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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