Whether you are simply looking for an old-school psychodynamic physician-psychiatrist with a strong research and psychopharmacology background, or are in need of a second opinion review and analysis of a complex neuropsychiatric presentation, you benefit from Dr. Preter's decades' worth of experience in the medical field, his dual training and Board-certification in both psychiatry and neurology, as well as the personalized access and genuine attention that hospital-based academic and corporate departments won't provide. Appointments are usually available within 1-2 days.
A dually trained and Board-certified (psychiatry and neurology) practitioner of neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychotherapy
A correct diagnosis is critical to setting the stage for the sometimes long journey back to wellness. However, the DSM-style manualized approach that has infiltrated the art and science of medicine is often all-too-simplistic and has severe limitations in clinical reality: Many people who suffer from psychological-psychiatric, neurological, or physical distress have several diagnoses; they also often have other possibly treatable problems ignored by those letter-and-number diagnosis codes. The cluster of conditions together may cause the distress, and they need to be addressed together. Examples are Parkinson disease that causes depression, or the psychological devastation caused by beginning memory loss.
Conversely, some patients may have been told (and occasionally, would rather believe) that they have some simplistically circumscribed psychiatric or even “medical”/neurological disorder when they suffer in reality, from chronic dysfunctional and painful relationship and identity issues with regards to themselves, their families, their partners, their businesses or their workplace. Here, the treatment would by necessity be primarily psychotherapeutic.
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The renewed integrative approach to psychiatry and neuropsychiatry that attempts to address all these issues jointly requires an understanding of a person’s medical as well as psychological situation, in order to determine a diagnosis (or diagnoses) and to suggest a realistic treatment plan. Treatment is based on a trusting and empathic collaboration of the patient-doctor team (sometimes including the patient’s family) that facilitates and accompanies the patient’s journey back to wellness.
A time-honored, collaborative and empathic approach