Garth Kroeker

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

Monday, April 22, 2024

"Spent" by Geoffrey Miller -- a discussion of evolutionary psychology

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 "Spent" is a good book by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, looking particularly at consumer behaviour, including purcha...

Education for gifted teens

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I'm uncomfortable with the term "gifted" since it implies that some people have "gifts" while others do not.  Really...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

"Determined" by Robert Sapolsky

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 Robert Sapolsky is a great scientist with deep wisdom to share about humanity.  His recent book, Determined , is another must-read.   The f...
Friday, August 4, 2023

"The Power of Us" by Jay Van Bavel & Dominic Packer: a recommendation, review, and applications in psychiatry

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 Jay Van Bavel and Dominic Packer are social psychologists whose recent book, The Power of Us, is a nice review of basic social psychology w...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Foolproof, by Sander van der Linden: a recommendation, review, and analogy with psychotherapy

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I strongly recommend a new book by Cambridge psychologist Sander van der Linden, entitled Foolproof: why misinformation infects our minds an...
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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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