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Psychiatrist with philosophical interests | Conversations in Critical Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 2024) | Psychiatry at the Margins www.psychiatrymargins.com
@awaisaftab.bsky.socialMy new preprint: Psychiatric Overdiagnosis As Diagnostic Stretching In Response To Clinical Need
@hermionegingold.bsky.socialReposted by @awaisaftab.bsky.socialPhew! This post hit the nail on the head.
@haydonmp.bsky.socialReposted by @awaisaftab.bsky.socialReally important and useful article.
@awaisaftab.bsky.socialI am doing a series of articles (“Therapeutic Window”) for the Science desk at The New York Times. The first article is about whether ADHD is better understood as a disorder of “attention” or something else:
@laurarouth.bsky.socialReposted by @awaisaftab.bsky.social“The system is organized around scarcity of attention and time. It is relatively easy to ask for and be prescribed medications, but quite difficult to see a physician who actually cares and listens and thoughtfully attends to diagnostic work-up and treatment risks and patient concerns.”
@awaisaftab.bsky.socialI Believe in a Radical Abundance of Relational Care
“The more I practice, the more I believe that attention is the rarest and purest form of clinical generosity.”
@laurarouth.bsky.socialReposted by @awaisaftab.bsky.socialIn supporting a loved one with a mental illness, I’m painfully acquainted with, and appreciate, what @awaisaftab.bsky.social describes regarding the harms and benefits of psychiatric medication, now both a necessity and godsend for my loved one, and us. Do I wish for something better? You bet.
@schizosemia.bsky.socialReposted by @awaisaftab.bsky.social“I feel like the psychiatric profession messed up big in the tone it took when it came to public outreach and mental health awareness efforts. We communicated to people that we have stuff figured out, that we know what to do.”
@alejandrahope.bsky.socialReposted by @awaisaftab.bsky.socialAs always, I deeply appreciate Awais's honesty re psychiatric prescribing, and I so wish I experienced more of that honesty from psychiatrists and other clinicians in my own care.
@awaisaftab.bsky.social“Psychiatric treatment is often enough a frustrating affair, for the patient, for the clinician, for the caregivers, basically for everyone involved…”
On imperfect tools
@awaisaftab.bsky.socialThe Lawsuit That Came to Symbolize the Fall of Psychoanalytic Psychiatry: Eric Caplan on Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodge
@cdelawalla.bsky.socialReposted by @awaisaftab.bsky.socialTons of ~discourse~ about AOC taking meetings with voters in the MAHA block.
I’m about to sit down and write all my thoughts down, but in the mean time, I wrote extensively about my experience trying to survive a horrid pregnancy & I get the vulnerability.
@awaisaftab.bsky.socialDepression & anxiety seem common & familiar but few can appreciate the psychopathological depths possible. Once in a while I come across an Omega level neurosis in the clinic, & it is like witnessing something alien & ancient, a horror & dread with the gravity of a neutron star…
@awaisaftab.bsky.socialDefending the Mechanistic Plausibility of Protracted and Delayed Antidepressant Withdrawal
Guest post by Daniel Cohrs
@awaisaftab.bsky.socialReposted by @awaisaftab.bsky.socialPostpartum Psychosis and Diagnostic Sclerosis
The DSM needs postpartum psychosis more than postpartum psychosis needs the DSM
@drkwildschut1984.bsky.socialReposted by @awaisaftab.bsky.socialPostpartum Psychosis is a well known clinical syndrome, yet not firmly categorised as a disease in DSM and perhaps there’s the issue that this trial reveals.
Timely blog here to elaborate on the matter, by @awaisaftab.bsky.social
@awaisaftab.bsky.socialPostpartum Psychosis and Diagnostic Sclerosis
The DSM needs postpartum psychosis more than postpartum psychosis needs the DSM
@awaisaftab.bsky.socialLindsay Clancy and the Dream of a World Beyond the Insanity Defense
The absurdity of mad versus bad
@awaisaftab.bsky.socialThe Ground Beneath the Clinic
On the scope of medical authority
@awaisaftab.bsky.socialWhen patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems.
