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American Psychiatry in the Shadow of MAHA and MAGA
Reflections on medicine, politics, and public trust
 • 
Awais Aftab
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People Are Still Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another (ADHD Edition)
Have We Been Thinking About "Medical Disorders" All Wrong?
 • 
Awais Aftab
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Could we develop a fast-acting, serotonin-based antidepressant if we wanted to?
Harnessing the power of placebo for a fast response
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Awais Aftab
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Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist
 • Susan T. Mahler, MD
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DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms
 • Awais Aftab
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How Antidepressants Work
 • Awais Aftab
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People Are Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another
 • Awais Aftab
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The Remaking of a Therapist
 • Awais Aftab
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A Memoir For the Iatrogenic Age
 • Awais Aftab
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The Politics of Conceptual and Critical Psychiatry
Excerpts from the epilogue of my book in which I am asked questions by Richard Gipps & Nev Jones
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Awais Aftab
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Psychiatry Q&A #2 (part 2) with Awais Aftab and Gary Borjesson
We discuss critics of psychiatry, ADHD, bipolar disorder, psychedelics, Trauma & borderline personality disorder, and more.
Published on Socratic Psychiatrist • 
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How Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning Works
A Review of Adrian Kind's "How Does the Psychiatrist Know?"
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Awais Aftab
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The Paradox of Alternative Spaces: Q&A with Sascha Altman DuBrul
“at the intersection of the public mental health system & the Mad Underground.”
 • 
Awais Aftab
 and 
Sascha Altman DuBrul
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When the Compass Doesn’t Point North
Patients and clinicians work better together, not apart
 • 
Alex Mendelsohn
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Notable Links and Miscellanea—March 23, 2025
#1. Many readers will recall the 2023 controversial letter calling Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness (ITT) “pseudoscience.”
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Awais Aftab
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Building Mutual Aid Communities Outside the Clinical Context: Q&A with Cooper Davis
And reflections on relationships with psychotropics gone awry
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Awais Aftab
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