Dr. Dickes primary concern is for his patients and not his bottom line. Dr. Dickes sees patients in evenings almost everyday. He is always there for his patients. He makes appointments that are convenient for his patients.

Submitted Jan. 27, 2020

I've been seeing him for about 4 years now. He's been very good to me, extremely knowledgeable and helpful. I moved an hour away but I always made the drive to him instead of finding another doctor. Well worth it.

Submitted Jan. 17, 2020

Dr.Dickes has helped me through some very difficult times. He is a very knowledgeable, helpful and caring Psychiatrist.

Submitted Dec. 30, 2019

Dr. Dickes is an outstanding psychiastrist who has helped me battle depression for the last 8+ years. He is not a therapist, but rather a deeply knowledgeable doctor who understands how to identify mental health issues and treat them.

Submitted Dec. 24, 2019

Simply the best! Knowledgeable about psychotherapy, medications, and is very empathetic. Sometimes you have to wait 15 or 20 minutes, but the wait is worth it.

Submitted Dec. 20, 2019

Have been with Dr. Dickes for 20 years. He is knowledgeable, compassionate, and cares about his patients.

Submitted July 29, 2019

I have been a patient for over a decade now. Dr, Dickes doesn’t make much eye contact, but he listens and remembers everything you tell him. Maybe he has aspergers like a few of the comments mentioned, but who cares. A lot of great doctors don’t have good bedside manners. I had one who was cold like the TV show Dr. House, but he listened and helped me medically. I read in a few of the comments that he is anti-therapy, which isn’t true. He doesn’t provide therapy in his office(many psychiatrists don’t), but he will give you names of therapists he recommends. He has also worked out a payment plan with me when my insurance wasn’t covered under him. Lastly as a person who has studied psychology, it isn’t an exact science. There is no magic test to diagnose someone and the medications(antidepressants and antipsychotics) they prescribe come with a lot of side effects. I was on one in high school that made me extremely shaky, made me moody and caused me to gain 30lbs in a month. Dr. Dickes took me right off of it. He didn’t let it make me any sicker. In my eyes he is a good doctor and I recommend him.

Submitted Dec. 13, 2018

Great doctor and kind. He is definitely the first who took his time and he gives me eye contact all the time. At first he didn’t now he is very caring!

Submitted April 17, 2018

DANGEROUS AND IRRESPONSIBLE IMO
What follows is my opinion about this MD based on my having been a patient of his and having compared him against several other MDs.

This quack put me on a higher-than-recommended amount of an antidepressant (he told me this at the time), which caused severely debilitating physical and mental effects and devastated my life for years afterwards. I was even unable to walk properly while taking this higher dose, so extreme was it, and I had been taking a recommended amount with no such effects for more than a year previously. However, sadly, that was not the worst of it.

I was also placed on an additional antidepressant at this time which caused severe disorientation and psychotic symptoms which I had never even come close to experiencing previously. This toxic brew, and the extreme mental and emotional disturbances that it caused in me, cost me a suicide attempt and a psychiatric hospitalization at a fairly young age -- within just a few months. The loss of self-confidence which ensued sent me on a downward spiral for several years afterwards. It took me about five years in all just to start to put my life together after this cataclysmic experience, and I still don't believe that I am today where I would be in my overall life situation had this not occurred. In hindsight, all I needed was help with my abusive and depressing family situation; instead I went into Dickes' office with depression and came out with something much more serious.

To be fair, Dickes was not the only shrink I was sent to during this period of my life, so in a way, this stint was merely continuing a trend. However, it seems to me that it was his markedly poor decisions with my prescriptions that were directly responsible for sending my brain chemistry over the edge, to depths which I have no reason to believe that I would have experienced otherwise, and from which I have had to suffer a very long and painful recovery, one which is still ongoing many years later. I would say that this experience set me back a decade in all versus where I would be today had my life never fallen apart. Never trust this guy with your brain chemistry, is all I can tell you.

Submitted July 5, 2015

I have been using him for years and very satisfied.

Submitted Dec. 2, 2014