What Awais Aftab thinks about behavioural science

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Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific debates inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.

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1. 26 Sept 2026

   Our readingWhen supply of most treatments in a care system is constrained, overuse concentrates on the few treatments that remain easily available, rather than reflecting excess care overall.

   Their wordsThe problem with medical and psychiatric care is not necessarily that we do too much but that we do too much of some things because we have constrained the supply of all the other things.

   ↗I Believe in a Radical Abundance of Relational Carepsychiatrymargins.com 1st of 3 in this piece