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Garth Kroeker

Garth Kroeker

http://garthkroeker.blogspot.com/

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

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  • Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Permissive Self-Parenting

    Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 11:25

    Here's a nice summary of different parenting styles:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenting_stylesThe authoritarian style is strict and dictatorial, with no dialog between parent & child.The permissive or indulgent style is lenient, with little di...

  • Becoming a "Self Whisperer"

    Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 19:37 in psychotherapy, metaphors

    Well, you may accuse me of having sentimental tastes in film, but I really did enjoy the 1998 movie with Robert Redford, called The Horse Whisperer. It's about a reclusive Montana rancher who has an almost mystical ability to gently connect with an...

  • Physical Warmth promotes Interpersonal Warmth

    Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 18:35 in depression, humour, lifestyle, insomnia, metaphors

    In an amusing study by LE Williams and JA Bargh, published in Science in 2008, subjects exposed to warm objects behaved in a manner which was more interpersonally warm. Here is the reference:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18948544In the first ex...

  • Memory Games

    Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 18:57

    Here are a few links to some free memory games. They may be directed towards children, but I think people of any age could find them useful or fun exercises to improve attention & memory (or even better: you can devise your own memory games, to ...

  • More evidence about the impact of nutrition on mood

    Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 18:56 in depression, nutrition

    An important paper was just published by Akbaraly et al. in The British Journal of Psychiatry, in which 3486 people were followed prospectively for 5 years, with an analysis of nutritional habits and depression symptoms. Here's a link to the abstra...

  • Rhythm Practice

    Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 17:29 in music

    There's a lot out there about various exercises or games you can do to keep your brain sharp.I would like to compile a list of things for sharpening your mind that I think are interesting, which you can do at little or no financial cost.I think that ...

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