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Awais Aftab
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Psychiatrist with philosophical interests | Conversations in Critical Psychiatry (OUP, 2024) | Psychiatry at the Margins: psychiatrymargins.com
Cleveland, OH
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    Awais Aftab
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    Sep 16, 2024
    My book “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” (Oxford University Press, 2024) brings together an edited selection of interviews published in the Psychiatric Times (@PsychTimes) from 2019 to 2022, updated with new and previously unpublished material. These interviews explore
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    Jul 23, 2022
    Anyone not attuned to the emerging intersection of psychiatric critique & far-right politics is not paying attention. We’ve already seen previews of this relationship when it comes to gender critical ideology & anti-vaccine sentiment; it’s going to become more explicit with time.
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    Awais Aftab
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    Nov 13, 2021
    DSM-5 (Taylor's Version)
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    Awais Aftab
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    Oct 21, 2021
    Seeing a lot of controversy abt antidepressants again. My lukewarm take: they are valuable therapeutic agents & they have made lives tolerable for so many. Since at least the 90s, however, their efficacy has been exaggerated, their adverse effects minimized, they have been…/1
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    Awais Aftab
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    Apr 30, 2021
    Ok, so I made one for psychiatry!🤓 *Types of Psychiatry Papers*
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    Awais Aftab
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    May 6, 2023
    Psychiatrists looking at the EKG for QTc
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    Awais Aftab
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    May 27, 2021
    Welcome to the dark side
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    Jun 6, 2021
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    Awais Aftab
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    Aug 21, 2021
    What will actually improve psychiatric outcomes? 🧵 1) Possibly the single most important thing we can do currently is addressing social determinants of health. Provide folks (esp seriously mentally ill) with decent housing, food, childcare, education, employment,… (1/n)
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    Awais Aftab
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    Aug 1, 2022
    Say hello to Baby Aftab 👧
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    Feb 9, 2021
    Psychiatry searching for a diagnostic biomarker that is sensitive & specific enough to be clinically useful
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    Awais Aftab
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    Jun 30, 2025
    I’ve worked with so many adults in their 40s/50s/60s who tell me that their childhoods were intensely miserable—they were depressed, anxious, traumatized, suicidal, at times even attempting suicide—and yet they didn’t seek clinical help, they didn’t come to clinical attention,
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    Awais Aftab
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    Aug 10, 2022
    Yo, that’s my emotional support old-dead-white-male philosopher
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    Awais Aftab
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    Jan 27, 2022
    The thing to understand about “chemical imbalance” narrative is that it is primarily a folk model of mental disorders. It arose as an offshoot of the monoamine hypothesis, but in the hands of pharma & the cultural power of their advertising machinery, it became a viral meme. /1