Awais Aftab

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of interviews published in the Psychiatric Times (@PsychTimes) from 2019 to 2022, updated with new and previously unpublished material.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…

Fundamentos de una nueva visión de los ingresos involuntarios en psiquiatría. @awaisaftab psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-groundbrea…

"In many cases, the true purpose of involuntary hospitalization is risk management & liability control rather than meaningful improvement in clinical outcomes." (I wrote about my last involuntary hold, link below for patient perspective.) by @awaisaftab psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-groundbrea…

Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-groundbrea… @awaisaftab

This is a very useful discussion of this paper. I think my main takeaway is fairly narrow: the paper evaluates clinical outcomes for individuals who are involuntarily hospitalized for 5-20 days in Allegheny County, and then mostly dc’d to voluntary OP care. This is not-

Time to bring out my post again re antipsychiatry. "Plans for implementation & transition, funding, & ways of working with politicians are absent. But they’ll sell you a book or a lecture series and invite you to listen to their podcasts./ @awaisaftab psychiatrymargins.com/p/finding-my-w…

So well-deserved! As someone who's finally in a place to start recommending resources to students and trainees (and front line mental health workers like nurses and care partners who are interested in learning more about the field), I've found your content to be exactly the right…

“Making Sense of the 4E Cognition Turn in Mental Health Research” by @MiguelNundePGor and @pablolopezsilva in the latest issue of PPP is currently open access for 2 weeks, along with accompanying commentaries muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Grateful for this positive review of “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” in the British Journal of Psychiatry by Tom Harrison.   Aftab “condenses an understanding of psychiatry that everyone working in the field would benefit from”   cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Two of my poems about depression, published by CUP in the British Journal of Psychiatry cambridge.org/core/journals/…

On a great summerday, I caught my first big cod and had my first Jama paper published: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

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Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics—A Collection With an illustrative focus on the genetics of schizophrenia psychiatrymargins.com/p/behavioral-a…

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“I think a better approach is to focus on the experience of suffering and impairment that accompanies mental illness, seeing psychiatric conditions as maladaptive and harmful behavioral statements that are nonetheless embodied.” From the excellent @awaisaftab Reference 👇

I love this talk w/David Mordecai re nuance & autonomy re psych meds. "I have had bipolar friends become frustrated when their prescriber insists on being consulted prior to medication changes, delaying intervention, & forcing a choice/ by @awaisaftab psychiatrymargins.com/p/adventures-i…

“the genome doesn’t owe us a specific answer when we interrogate it to study the etiology of something as complex as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.” Psychiatric Genetics Beyond Heritability: Q&A with Michel Nivard psychiatrymargins.com/p/psychiatric-…

Psychiatric Genetics Beyond Heritability: Q&A with Michel Nivard “We look for genes as a means to an end—biology, epidemiology, and etiology of complex human outcomes.” psychiatrymargins.com/p/psychiatric-…

"Como alguien que sigue de cerca el discurso político, tengo que preocuparme acerca de lo que otros piensan, o quieren hacerte pensar, que significa la heredabilidad."