Psychiatry at the Margins

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The Medication Life and the Moral Career
On antidepressants, ambivalence, & uncertainty
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Awais Aftab
The Science of Clinical Psychiatric Reasoning
Heinrichs introduces his book “How Psychiatrists Make Decisions”
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Awais Aftab
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Douglas Heinrichs
Mixed Bag #22: Nils Wendel on Learning Psychopharmacology
A book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item
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Nils Wendel, MD
Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse
“Individuals with disorders often have advantages, but that does not make the disorder an adaptation.”
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Awais Aftab
12
Profiled in Lancet Psychiatry
“one of the discipline’s foremost public intellectuals”
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Awais Aftab
24
The Evolutionary Genetics of Schizophrenia
Updates, clarifications, and corrections
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Awais Aftab
6
Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff
Cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia
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Awais Aftab
5
When It Comes to SSRIs, Are Our Only Choices “Safe & Effective” or “More Dangerous Than Heroin”?
My New York Times op-ed and bonus content
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Awais Aftab
3
Emil du Bois-Reymond & Ignorance in Science: Interview with Gabriel Finkelstein
“we are ignorant and we will remain ignorant”
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Awais Aftab
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Josh Richardson
6

April 2025

American Psychiatry in the Shadow of MAHA and MAGA
Reflections on medicine, politics, and public trust
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Awais Aftab
12
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?
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Awais Aftab
8
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
12
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
10
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
2

March 2025

The Paradox of Alternative Spaces: Q&A with Sascha Altman DuBrul
“at the intersection of the public mental health system & the Mad Underground.”
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Awais Aftab
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Sascha Altman DuBrul
5
When the Compass Doesn’t Point North
Patients and clinicians work better together, not apart
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Alex Mendelsohn
14
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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Notable Links & Miscellanea - March 15, 2025
March 15, 2025
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Awais Aftab
1
Rejection of Hijab as a Psychiatric Problem in Iran
An illustration of political weaponization of healthcare
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Awais Aftab
2
Treatment Resistant Depression — A Collective Failure of Imagination [REPOST]
Coming to terms with the reality of imperfection
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Awais Aftab
4

February 2025

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