Garth Kroeker

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

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Medical School Admission Criteria: a discussion

It is very difficult to get admitted to a medical school. At UBC, only about 10% of applicants are accepted. This leads to extreme com...

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

"The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease" by Marc Lewis

Marc Lewis explores the neurobiology of addiction in this short book, with proposed approaches to better understanding and helping people wh...

Monday, May 23, 2022

The Elephant in the Brain & The Folly of Fools

Two more books to recommend: The Folly of Fools (2011) by Robert Trivers and The Elephant in the Brain (2018) by Kevin Simler & Robi...

Monday, April 25, 2022

Review: Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness, by Joe Moran

Joe Moran's book is a nice exploration of various historical figures (such as authors, poets, and musicians) who had what he calls ...

Sunday, April 3, 2022

Review: Blueprint by Nicholas Christakis

I am happy to have discovered Christakis and his work, in an area I would call “evolutionary sociology” or “mathematical sociology.” Blue...

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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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