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What I Wish People Understood About Mental Health Problems
Essay in the New York Times
May 12
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Awais Aftab
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Make Deprescribing Boring
On the ASCP Consensus Statements and the MAHA Discourse
May 8
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Awais Aftab
104
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Notes from a South American Psychiatrist on the Future DSM
Description and discrimination in fragile health systems
May 7
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Gonzalo Amador Rivera
30
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Philosophical Considerations Around HiTOP - Commentaries and Response
Philosophical Case Conference
May 4
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Awais Aftab
24
Twilight of the Psychopharmacologists
The collapse of diagnosis-centered psychopharmacology
May 2
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Awais Aftab
123
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April 2026
Their Desire Is the Desire of the Other
Inspired by Terry Bisson and Jacques Lacan
Apr 25
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Awais Aftab
126
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Reconsidering the Place of Dualism in Medicine and Psychiatry: An Exchange with Diane O’Leary
[Redux]
Apr 18
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Awais Aftab
40
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Why Public Discourse Needs a Dose of Psychoanalytic Insight
Bringing depth to collective understanding
Apr 15
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Austin Ratner
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The History of Psychiatric Hospitalization at Home in the US
A story of institutional amnesia
Apr 12
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David Heath
38
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Psychiatric Home Hospitalization Through the Logic of Scarcity vs Abundance
Scarcity frames home hospitalization as a response to limited resources; abundance frames it as an expansion of patient-centered care.
Apr 10
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Awais Aftab
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Making Sense of a World Where Most Psychiatric Diagnoses Are False
And why isn’t clinical practice even more chaotic than it currently is?
Apr 4
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Awais Aftab
157
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29
March 2026
What Do We Owe the Mystics?
Mysterium tremendum fascinans
Mar 28
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Awais Aftab
177
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