Awais Aftab
@awaisaftab
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Psychiatrist with philosophical interests | Conversations in Critical Psychiatry (OUP, 2024) | Psychiatry at the Margins: https://t.co/EKwMa3uRq7
Cleveland, OH
Joined June 2011
My book “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” (Oxford University Press, 2024) brings together an edited selection of interviews published in the Psychiatric Times (@PsychTimes) from 2019 to 2022, updated with new and previously unpublished material. These interviews explore
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Print copies of the Lancet Psychiatry issue with my profile in it.
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RT @rwillowfish: Psychiatric Blues. Daniel Oppenheimer interviews @awaisaftab about many relevant psychiatric issues. .
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My own personal take on @LauraDelano story is that it is, in some ways, a story of misdiagnosis and over-medication but, crucially, it is not *just* a story of misdiagnosis and over-treatment. It has important things to say to us about making sense of suffering & iatrogenic harm.
My story is not one of “misdiagnosis” or “overmedication.” I sought help from our country’s top psych institutions + “met the criteria” for the various DSM labels I was given. My experience of treatment-induced harm is the byproduct of the MH industry working exactly as intended.
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When asked to explain, he said: cause of the “hex.” I thought he may be thinking of hex as a curse and the hexagon being cursed, but he was actually thinking of a (mild) phonetic similarity between “hex” and “heck” (what the heck) 🤷♂️.
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My 6-year old son, first thing on waking up: did you know that hexagon is the stupidest shape in the whole wide world?!?.
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RT @tylerblack32: This is precisely why I respond to people who say "oh no, childhood mental health problems are rising" with:. Exactly wha….
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RT @srwalter7: I think that childhood suffering to a large degree is still invisible to us as a society today; the statements “children are….
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I’ve worked with so many adults in their 40s/50s/60s who tell me that their childhoods were intensely miserable—they were depressed, anxious, traumatized, suicidal, at times even attempting suicide—and yet they didn’t seek clinical help, they didn’t come to clinical attention,.
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RT @rwillowfish: I believe that within all the disagreements between those labeled 'anti-psychiatry' & those labeled 'pro-psychiatry' is a….
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“I’m gonna do a mash-up of Leo Tolstoy and Karl Jaspers here. All sane people are alike; every madperson is mad in their own way.” Sofia Jeppsson 👇🏽.
“Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”. Sofia Jeppsson discusses how autobiographies of madness intersect with academic philosophy and fantasy fiction in the context of her Swedish novel, “Cogwheel Souls”.
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RT @GrantHBrennerMD: Sullivan was a genius. Everyone should at least read The Psychiatric Interview. #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #psychi….
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RT @rwillowfish: Such a powerful and thoughtful discussion, especially Sofia's conceptualizations of her own madness and the part creativit….
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RT @awaisaftab: “Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”. Sofia Jeppsson discusses how autobiographies of madness intersect with academic….
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RT @Stopthestigma: Cogwheel Souls: Q&A with Sofia Jeppsson on Madness, Fantasy, and Philosophy @awaisaftab
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“Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”. Sofia Jeppsson discusses how autobiographies of madness intersect with academic philosophy and fantasy fiction in the context of her Swedish novel, “Cogwheel Souls”.
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RT @DrAnnieHickox: My latest blog. I hope that it resonates with all of you courageous people who have spoken or written about your experie….
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