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Garth Kroeker

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A psychiatrist's opinions and advice about maintaining good mental health, and about dealing with mental illness.

Added on: Nov 6th, 2008
Country: Canada
Language: English

Author: Garth Kroeker
Listed in: Health Living Well
Tags: depression, Psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychiatrist, psychopharmacology

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Saturated fat not intrinsically harmful?

Posted on Friday March 19th, 2010 at 07:11 pm in nutrition

I'm intending to start a series of posts reviewing articles that I found interesting from a selection of journals published in the first months of 2010.Here is the first, from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, March 2010, Vol. 91, No. 3, pp...
Omega-3 update

Posted on Friday March 19th, 2010 at 06:58 pm

Appleton et al. has published a recent review of evidence regarding the psychiatric effects of omega-3 supplementation.Here's the link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20130098Basically, the conclusion is similar to my previous impression on this ...
Antidepressant + CBT superior to either treatment alone for treating social anxiety

Posted on Friday March 19th, 2010 at 06:41 pm in anxiety psychotherapy medications

Blanco et al. published this study in the March 2010 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. Here's a link to the abstract:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20194829 Patients with social anxiety were divided into four groups in this rand...
Intellectual Lineage & the Sources of Therapeutic Ideas

Posted on Friday March 12th, 2010 at 07:43 pm in philosophical opinions or beliefs

It was hard to think of a title for this post; really, this is a bit of a philosophical ramble. It's the type of title I might sometimes poke fun at, it sounds like something you might find in an overly serious scholarly journal. To some degree...
Man\'s Search for Meaning

Posted on Wednesday March 10th, 2010 at 02:33 pm in books and reading

Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl, is one the great books of the past century. Frankl (1905-1997) was an Austrian psychiatrist who developed a style of therapy which he called "logotherapy," a style which focuses upon the identification...