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The Fantasy of Being “Just” a Psychiatric Prescriber
The job of containment and metabolism
Jul 5 • Awais Aftab
What Psychosis Classification Can Learn from Epilepsy Classification
The Future of “Schizophrenia”
Jul 3 • Awais Aftab

June 2026

Thinking Through Antidepressants and Suicidality
And the ubiquity of risk in medicine
Jun 27 • Awais Aftab
On Suicidality
Guest post by Sorbie Richner
Jun 20 • Sorbie
Some Predictions About the Future of “Withdrawal Studies”
What we talk about when we talk about antidepressant withdrawal
Jun 13 • Awais Aftab
The Brain Architecture of Schizophrenia-Bipolar Psychosis Spectrum
B-SNIP Biotypes of Psychosis
Jun 6 • Awais Aftab
Mixed Bag #26: Darby Saxbe on the Science of Fatherhood
a book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item
Jun 4 • Darby Saxbe

May 2026

The Ground Beneath the Clinic
On the scope of medical authority
May 30 • Awais Aftab
A Pluralist’s Quarrels with “Critical Psychiatry”
Where do I stand?
May 23 • Awais Aftab
The Szaszian Heart of MAHA Psychiatry
Moderate-sounding entry points to an unpopular agenda
May 16 • Awais Aftab
What I Wish People Understood About Mental Health Problems
Essay in the New York Times
May 12 • Awais Aftab
Make Deprescribing Boring
On the ASCP Consensus Statements and the MAHA Discourse
May 8 • Awais Aftab
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