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Awais Aftab's mental models

2 claims Awais Aftab made fit 2 mental models. Most often: The therapeutic alliance, What counts as evidence. Everything they said here.

Models we see in what they say

Our reading: their claim applies the idea without naming it. The claim is theirs; filing it here is ours.

The therapeutic alliance

Therapy needs two people who can work together. Whether the alliance causes good outcomes or merely reveals a patient who could form one is an open question.

Used by 3 others

A prescriber cannot outsource containment to the therapy hour: the emotional and relational dynamics are part of prescribing, not an intrusion on it.

  1. Awais Aftab Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case… 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 Prescriberpsychiatrymargins.com · 5 Jul 2026
    Their wordsThe 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 Prescriberpsychiatrymargins.com

    5 Jul 2026

What counts as evidence

A label like evidence-based can describe what was studied rather than what works. Who was compared with what, and how long the treatment ran, decide what a trial can show.

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Psychiatry's confidence in its theories of mind and brain exceeds the evidence supporting them.

  1. Awais Aftab Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case… Psychiatry has unearned confidence in both its theories of mind and its theories of brain. The Lawsuit That Came to Symbolize the Fall of Psychoanalytic Psychiatry: Eric Caplan on Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodgepsychiatrymargins.com · 12 Sept 2026All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsPsychiatry has unearned confidence in both its theories of mind and its theories of brain.

    ↗The Lawsuit That Came to Symbolize the Fall of Psychoanalytic Psychiatry: Eric Caplan on Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodgepsychiatrymargins.com

    12 Sept 2026