Zen Psychiatry
By Elana Miller, MD
For anyone interested in studying psychiatry as a career, practicing as a psychiatrist, or just looking for more resources on understanding what it's like the be a mental health provider, this section is for you.
It's also for anyone interested in my integrative approach to psychiatry - integrating both Western traditional practices with Eastern wisdom.
These posts document my journey to Dr. Elana Miller - from the humorous residency stories to my dissertations on diagnosis, treatment plans, and industry topics.
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Interested in starting an integrative psychiatry practice but don’t have a formal certification? Worried that you don't have enough experience to start a practice on your own?I started Zen …
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My talk at UCLA Tuesday was a smashing success! One person told me she has been going to psychiatry grand rounds since the 90's and I got the first standing ovation she's ever seen. I've uploaded the …
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Before medical school I worked in a research lab investigating the relationship between stress and memory. As a research assistant, I dutifully administered memory test and collected saliva samples to …
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It's only been two days since I arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida for the annual conference of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine, and my mind has already been blown about a …
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"Where there is a love of humanity, there is a love for the art of medicine" –Hippocrates, the father of western medicine When I was in middle school, I went to Lake Tahoe with my best friend on a …
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I didn't set out to become an integrative psychiatrist.Like most doctors out there, I went through medical school and residency learning a "disease-based" approach of how the human body works. …
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