Specializing in Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression, & Entrepreneurs. It's hard to pick a therapist from a website, which is why I've made this informational video to introduce myself and how I work to help you decide if I'm the right therapist for you. If you are seeking treatment in the Baltimore area for borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, or depression-or if you are an entrepreneur-you might want to consider seeing a doctor who specializes in these areas, as I do.
Originally trained in the psychoanalytic tradition, I've always maintained a commitment to eclecticism-using what works. We now have thousands of studies that show meditation is as effective as medication and therapy for every disorder we treat, yet unlike medication there are no side effects, and unlike therapy it's free, as I explain in this interview in Psychology Today.
Adding mindfulness meditation to my practice has been transformative. It's made me love my job far more because working with people who are getting better and growing makes a therapist look forward to coming to work in the morning.
Originally trained in the psychoanalytic tradition, I've always maintained a commitment to eclecticism-using what works. We now have thousands of studies that show meditation is as effective as medication and therapy for every disorder we treat, yet unlike medication there are no side effects, and unlike therapy it's free, as I explain in this interview in Psychology Today.
Adding mindfulness meditation to my practice has been transformative. It's made me love my job far more because working with people who are getting better and growing makes a therapist look forward to coming to work in the morning.
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Dr. Gartner has been a practicing psychotherapist in Baltimore for 35 years.
He specializes in treating borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, and providing therapy/executive coaching with entrepreneurs.
Dr. Gartner began his work with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in 1987, after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, under the auspices of Dr. Otto Kernberg, noted authority in the field of BPD who helped define the disorder.
He specializes in treating borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, and providing therapy/executive coaching with entrepreneurs.
Dr. Gartner began his work with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in 1987, after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, under the auspices of Dr. Otto Kernberg, noted authority in the field of BPD who helped define the disorder.
Borderline Personality Disorder
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Patients (or their family members) often seek me out to learn whether they have borderline personality disorder.
If you're asking "am I borderline?" there's a good chance you identify with some of symptoms listed below, even if you don't meet full diagnostic criteria, and may benefit from working with a specialist.
An intense fear of abandonment, even going to extreme measures to avoid real or imagined separation or rejection.
A pattern of unstable intense relationships, such as idealizing someone one moment and then suddenly believing the person doesn't care enough or is cruel.
If you're asking "am I borderline?" there's a good chance you identify with some of symptoms listed below, even if you don't meet full diagnostic criteria, and may benefit from working with a specialist.
An intense fear of abandonment, even going to extreme measures to avoid real or imagined separation or rejection.
A pattern of unstable intense relationships, such as idealizing someone one moment and then suddenly believing the person doesn't care enough or is cruel.
Depression
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From research and clinical experience we know there are a variety of therapeutic and somatic treatments, often times in combination, that can be effective with depression.
Part of the art of treatment is to draw freely on all these approaches.
We now know that meditation reduces activity in a part of the brain called "the default mode network" that is overactive in depressed people.
That voice in your head that ruminates and repetitively criticizes you is a symptom of an overactive default mode network.
Part of the art of treatment is to draw freely on all these approaches.
We now know that meditation reduces activity in a part of the brain called "the default mode network" that is overactive in depressed people.
That voice in your head that ruminates and repetitively criticizes you is a symptom of an overactive default mode network.
Entrepreneurs
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After the publication of the Hypomanic Edge, I gave dozens of talks around the country to groups of entrepreneurs, CEOs, and venture capitalists, and in every talk there was what I called "the eureka moment" when, three sentences into the talk, their eyes would go wide, and they would suddenly realize that they and/or virtually every entrepreneurs they had ever encountered have this mildly manic temperament.
But one venture capitalist took me aside and said, "You've just described every entrepreneur I've ever worked with, but the problem is we end up firing half of them, " a sentiment I heard often.
But one venture capitalist took me aside and said, "You've just described every entrepreneur I've ever worked with, but the problem is we end up firing half of them, " a sentiment I heard often.
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Darcy Daisy and the Firefly Festival: Learning About Bipolar Disorder and Community by Lisa M. Lewandowski Ph.
Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers by E. Fuller Torrey M.D. and Michael B. Knable D.O.
New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions, Including: Proper. of Depression & Manic-Depressive.
Bipolar Disorders: Mixed States, Rapid Cycling and Atypical Forms Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law.
Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers by E. Fuller Torrey M.D. and Michael B. Knable D.O.
New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions, Including: Proper. of Depression & Manic-Depressive.
Bipolar Disorders: Mixed States, Rapid Cycling and Atypical Forms Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law.
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