A few weeks ago I started a blog/newsletter on Substack “Psychiatry at the Margins”: https://awaisaftab.substack.com/ | A Myth in Creation
Takeaway:| A Myth in Creation
“The maddening ambiguity of our position is what leads to the titular psychiatric psychodrama. One cannot reconcile oneself to psychiatry because it constantly pulls in two directions – it presents one with an ideological narrative that speaks of humanism and pluralism, and a material structure that witnesses biomedical hegemony. At some level this profession just does not make sense to itself, its own ideology out of whack with the plain facts of its own existence. There are those who ar...| A Myth in Creation
"Conversations in Critical Psychiatry" is my interview series for Psychiatric Times that explores critical and philosophical perspectives in psychiatry and engages with prominent commentators within and outside the profession who have made meaningful criticisms of the status quo.| A Myth in Creation
This blogpost is a| A Myth in Creation
The dialogue continues! Responding to Richard Gipps's post contra aftab contra gipps contra seth| A Myth in Creation
“without a constant misuse of language, there cannot be any discovery,| A Myth in Creation
In this blogpost I am collecting| A Myth in Creation
Something I posted on twitter| A Myth in Creation
This blog post is derived from a twitter thread, in response to this blog by Mark Ruffalo.| A Myth in Creation
Constructs are abstract concepts| A Myth in Creation
Some common conceptual mistakes in psychiatry and psychology, in my opinion:| A Myth in Creation
xkcd recently made a comic about types of scientific papers, which went viral on social media. Inspired by it, here's a spin off that I made about types of psychiatric papers; I shared it on twitter and facebook earlier with quite an enthusiastic reception!| A Myth in Creation
VICE News published the article 'The Movement Against Psychiatry' yesterday by Shayla Love.| A Myth in Creation
Some reflections in a piece for CLOSLER on looking at success in academic medicine through the lens of virtue ethics.| A Myth in Creation
I was lucky| A Myth in Creation
Recently I've been thinking about Reformation, the 16th century Christian movement in Europe led by Luther. As commonly understood, this movement "posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in particular to papal authority, arising from what was perceived to be errors, abuses, and discrepancies by the Catholic Church" (wikipedia).| A Myth in Creation
Awais Aftab's personal blog. Discussions of philosophy & psychiatry. Historically a repository of poetic-literary-philosophical fragments.| awaisaftab.blogspot.com
Awais Aftab's personal blog. Discussions of philosophy & psychiatry. Historically a repository of poetic-literary-philosophical fragments.| awaisaftab.blogspot.com
How to make sense of depression using a pluralistic approach| awaisaftab.blogspot.com
This post continues the dialogue between James Barnes and me on the topic of criticisms of psychiatry.| awaisaftab.blogspot.com
This is a guest post by James Barnes, who offers a response here to my earlier blog post Psychiatry and its Critics.| awaisaftab.blogspot.com
This blogpost is in response to a blogpost by James Barnes on Mad in the UK.| awaisaftab.blogspot.com
Awais Aftab's personal blog. Discussions of philosophy & psychiatry. Historically a repository of poetic-literary-philosophical fragments.| awaisaftab.blogspot.com
Awais Aftab's personal blog. Discussions of philosophy & psychiatry. Historically a repository of poetic-literary-philosophical fragments.| awaisaftab.blogspot.com