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Awais Aftab

What Awais Aftab thinks about humility

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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. Our readingMental-health treatments remain highly imperfect tools that are increasingly relied on in situations where their use isn't truly necessary.

    Their wordsWe have highly imperfect tools at our disposal, and more and more we rely on these tools in situations where their use is less-than-necessary.

    ↗Maybe Don’t Ask Your Doctor if Zoloft Is Right for Youpsychiatrymargins.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingNo approach to mental healthcare exceeds being highly imperfect, and anyone claiming otherwise is dishonest or mistaken.

    Their wordsAnyone selling you anything better than 'highly imperfect' in the realm of mental healthcare is a fool or a grifter.

    ↗Maybe Don’t Ask Your Doctor if Zoloft Is Right for Youpsychiatrymargins.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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

    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 1st of 3 in this piece

  7. Our readingUncertainty about a disease's underlying mechanism does not excuse withholding treatment from patients who want it.

    Their wordsBut not knowing is not a license to do nothing - to tell patients, well, come back in a decade and maybe we can help.

    ↗The Lawsuit That Came to Symbolize the Fall of Psychoanalytic Psychiatry: Eric Caplan on Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodgepsychiatrymargins.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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