Beauty At Work Beauty and Mental Health with Dr. Eloise Ballou
Dr. Eloise Ballou is a psychiatrist specializing in psychotherapy for adolescents and hospital-based emergency psychiatry. She received her medical degree from the University of Ottawa in the French stream and completed her Psychiatry residency at the University of Toronto. She enjoys supervising Psychiatry residents in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the University of Toronto, and also works as a locum psychiatrist in Northern Ontario in acute care and emergency room settings. She studied Art History and Psychology at the University of Toronto prior to starting her medical training and has a particular interest in applying insights from the humanities to her medical practice.
In our interview, we explore:
- What drew Eloise to medicine/psychiatry in the first place
- Where she encounters beauty in her work as a psychotherapist
- The obstacles to encountering beauty in her work and in the medical profession generally
- How beauty might be relevant to mental health
- What it might look like for scientists, physicians, and the healthcare field more generally to take beauty more seriously or to cultivate the conditions for professionals to encounter beauty in their work
To learn more about her work, visit
https://www.drballou.com/
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