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The Clinical Craft of Psychiatric Medication Tapering: Q&A with Anders Sørensen
“Withdrawal teaches you, as the clinician, that you don’t control the process. Successful tapering is inherently patient-led, and there’s a kind of…
Nov 23
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Awais Aftab
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6 Suggestions for DSM-6
Making the next DSM look less like a house of mirrors
Nov 20
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Awais Aftab
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The Unsettled Work of Psychiatry in 2025
The ethical demand to honor complexity and pluralism
Nov 19
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Awais Aftab
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In Search of the Unclassified Residuum: Q&A with Rachel Aviv
“There are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which.”
Nov 15
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Awais Aftab
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Understanding Detransition(s) in Transgender Healthcare
A latent class analysis from the DARE study
Nov 9
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Kinnon Ross MacKinnon
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Sikorav Against the World
A French psychiatrist’s efforts to do right by his patients brought him into conflict with the medical bureaucracy
Nov 7
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Awais Aftab
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From Here to Humility
At every stage, a clinician must be willing to acknowledge that they do not have all the answers
Nov 5
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Stephanie Foster
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October 2025
You Aren't in the DSM
Five editions on, the DSM shoulders more responsibilities than it was ever intended for. How did we get here?
Published on Asterisk Magazine
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Oct 28
Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Endgame of Validity
From Validators to Utilitators
Oct 25
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Awais Aftab
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Why Is Serotonin-2A Brain Receptor Binding Reduced in Depression?
New scientific work continues to show a complicated relationship between depression and the serotonin system
Oct 20
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Awais Aftab
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Looking Again at SSRIs in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety
“Society gets the type of adolescent that it expects and deserves.”
Oct 18
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Awais Aftab
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It is not ludicrous for mildly and severely impaired to have the same diagnosis
On autism debates and classificatory solutions for social problems
Oct 10
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Awais Aftab
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