Awais Aftab
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
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Psychiatry at the MarginsNewsletter A long essay most weeks on the arguments inside psychiatry. His main channel by a distance.
Weekly essays taking the philosophical fights in psychiatry seriously — diagnosis and what naming does, deprescribing and withdrawal, and what a prescriber owes a patient that cannot be handed to the therapy hour.
Recent
- Lindsay Clancy and the Dream of a World Beyond the Insanity Defense 29 Aug 2026
- Under the Borderline: Rensin and the Delano Confusion 28 Aug 2026
- Notes on Freud and Cocaine 15 Aug 2026
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- Psychiatric Deprescribing as a Wicked Problem 8 Aug 2026
- Adiposity by Self-Report 1 Aug 2026
- The Principle of Rumpelstiltskin: Psychiatrists and Witchdoctors 25 Jul 2026
- The Fantasy of Being “Just” a Psychiatric Prescriber 5 Jul 2026
- What Psychosis Classification Can Learn from Epilepsy Classification 3 Jul 2026
- Thinking Through Antidepressants and Suicidality 27 Jun 2026
- Some Predictions About the Future of “Withdrawal Studies” 13 Jun 2026
- The Brain Architecture of Schizophrenia-Bipolar Psychosis Spectrum 6 Jun 2026
- The Ground Beneath the Clinic 30 May 2026
- A Pluralist’s Quarrels with “Critical Psychiatry” 23 May 2026
- The Szaszian Heart of MAHA Psychiatry 16 May 2026
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The Rumpelstiltskin effect claims only that the act of being diagnosed can itself help, not that a diagnosis is a net good for the patient.
The Rumpelstiltskin effect is not a claim that receiving a diagnosis is a net benefit or a net positive. It is a claim that the mere act of receiving a diagnosis can be beneficial.
The Principle of Rumpelstiltskin: Psychiatrists and Witchdoctors Said 25 Jul 2026
A prescriber cannot outsource containment to the therapy hour: the emotional and relational dynamics are part of prescribing, not an intrusion on it.
The emotional and relational dynamics are not an intrusion upon the work of prescribing. They are a part of the work itself.
The Fantasy of Being "Just" a Psychiatric Prescriber Said 5 Jul 2026
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