Adiposity by Self-Report What if obesity were invisible in the same way as ADHD is? www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/adiposity-...
Adiposity by Self-Report
If obesity were like ADHD
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Awais Aftab
@awaisaftab.bsky.social
Psychiatrist with philosophical interests | Conversations in Critical Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 2024) | Psychiatry at the Margins www.psychiatrymargins.com
Adiposity by Self-Report What if obesity were invisible in the same way as ADHD is? www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/adiposity-...
Adiposity by Self-Report
If obesity were like ADHD
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The Principle of Rumpelstiltskin: Psychiatrists & Witchdoctors Torrey on the magic of the right word Awais Aftab 25 July 2026 @awaisaftab.bsky.social
The Principle of Rumpelstiltskin: Psychiatrists and Witchdoctors
Torrey on the magic of the right word
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The Principle of Rumpelstiltskin: Psychiatrists and Witchdoctors On how E. Fuller Torrey articulated the Rumpelstiltskin effect as a principle of psychotherapy a half century before @alanlevinovitz.bsky.social and I did www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-princi...
The Principle of Rumpelstiltskin: Psychiatrists and Witchdoctors
Torrey on the magic of the right word
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The Future of Withdrawal Studies Is Already Written Guest post by Adele Framer in response to my earlier post on predictions about the future of withdrawal studies www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-future...
The Future of Withdrawal Studies Is Already Written
Guest post by Adele Framer
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Forever Cousins: Relationships With My Voices “If I thought my voice was nothing more than random, psychotic noise, then that’s all she ever would have been.” Guest post by Amanda Peery-Wolf www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/forever-co...
Forever Cousins: Relationships with My Voices
“If I thought my voice was nothing more than random, psychotic noise, then that’s all she ever would have been.”
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As always, excellent thoughts from Awais on the (mostly unfortunate) state of affairs in psychiatric practice these days:
Awais Aftab@awaisaftab.bsky.social · last mo.The Fantasy of Being “Just” a Psychiatric Prescriber The job of containment and metabolism www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-fantas...
"Most psychiatrists do not need to be psychotherapists (I am not), but they do still need to be attuned to the psychological complexity of the whole person & the relational aspects of psychiatric treatment." 5 July 2026 Psychiatry at the Margins Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social
The Fantasy of Being “Just” a Psychiatric Prescriber
The job of containment and metabolism
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The Fantasy of Being “Just” a Psychiatric Prescriber The job of containment and metabolism www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-fantas...
The Fantasy of Being “Just” a Psychiatric Prescriber
The job of containment and metabolism
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What Psychosis Classification Can Learn from Epilepsy Classification The Future of “Schizophrenia” www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/what-psych...
What Psychosis Classification Can Learn from Epilepsy Classification
The Future of “Schizophrenia”
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“DSM-5 schizophrenia, however, is an awkward construct that cannot give up chronicity and cognitive impairment but also cannot commit to it.” It has always felt clumsy to me. Fascinating post!
Awais Aftab@awaisaftab.bsky.social · last mo.What Psychosis Classification Can Learn from Epilepsy Classification The Future of “Schizophrenia” www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/what-psych...
What Psychosis Classification Can Learn from Epilepsy Classification The Future of "Schizophrenia" 3 July 2026 Psychiatry at the Margins Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social
What Psychosis Classification Can Learn from Epilepsy Classification
The Future of “Schizophrenia”
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What Psychosis Classification Can Learn from Epilepsy Classification The Future of “Schizophrenia” www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/what-psych...
What Psychosis Classification Can Learn from Epilepsy Classification
The Future of “Schizophrenia”
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On Suicidality Guest post by Sorbie Richner “Suicidality has been a main character in my life since I was a little kid. I started covertly making it other people’s problem starting when I was about 9 years old by externalizing it as rage…” www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/on-suicida...
On Suicidality
Guest post by Sorbie Richner
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On Suicidality Guest post by Sorbie Richner “Suicidality has been a main character in my life since I was a little kid. I started covertly making it other people’s problem starting when I was about 9 years old by externalizing it as rage…” www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/on-suicida...
On Suicidality
Guest post by Sorbie Richner
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Letter to the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, making a case that the future DSM should have an independent domain of psychological factors alongside social context, candidate biomarkers, and transdiagnostic features. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
The Dimensional Turn in Psychopathology: Q&A with Robert Krueger (Jan 2025) www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-dimens...
The Dimensional Turn in Psychopathology: Q&A with Robert Krueger
Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota
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New and beautiful OUP volume on dimensional models of psychopathology
Check out the PPP special issue on philosophy of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56979
@awaisaftab.bsky.social sits between the critical and commendatory aspects of psychiatry, much to the annoyance of some of his new (ex-)subscribers... #FootnotesFromTheMargins www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/reflection...
Some Predictions About the Future of “Withdrawal Studies” What we talk about when we talk about antidepressant withdrawal www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/some-predi...
Some Predictions About the Future of “Withdrawal Studies”
What we talk about when we talk about antidepressant withdrawal
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Some Predictions About the Future of “Withdrawal Studies” What we talk about when we talk about antidepressant withdrawal www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/some-predi...
Some Predictions About the Future of “Withdrawal Studies”
What we talk about when we talk about antidepressant withdrawal
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Explaining schizophrenia, anorexia or autism by proposing ways they might offer advantages is tempting but almost always wrong. Diseases are not adaptations shaped by natural selection. @awaisaftab.bsky.social talks evolutionary psychiatry with Randolph Nesse: buff.ly/xK0itkD
Finally we are discarding the imaginary boundaries of “schizophrenia” and “bipolar” … “DSM categories did not correspond to distinct biological entities. Instead, they lined up along a continuum of severity that appears across multiple bio-factor domains…”
Awais Aftab@awaisaftab.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Brain Architecture of Schizophrenia-Bipolar Psychosis Spectrum In my new post today, I discuss the B-SNIP biotypes of psychosis and how I make sense of them www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-brain-...
The Brain Architecture of Schizophrenia-Bipolar Psychosis Spectrum In my new post today, I discuss the B-SNIP biotypes of psychosis and how I make sense of them www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-brain-...
The Brain Architecture of Schizophrenia-Bipolar Psychosis Spectrum
B-SNIP Biotypes of Psychosis
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The Brain Architecture of Schizophrenia-Bipolar Psychosis Spectrum In my new post today, I discuss the B-SNIP biotypes of psychosis and how I make sense of them www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-brain-...
The Brain Architecture of Schizophrenia-Bipolar Psychosis Spectrum
B-SNIP Biotypes of Psychosis
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Mixed Bag #26: Darby Saxbe on the Science of Fatherhood @darbysaxbe.bsky.social explores the topic via a book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/mixed-bag-...
Mixed Bag #26: Darby Saxbe on the Science of Fatherhood
a book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item
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Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse “Individuals with disorders often have advantages, but that does not make the disorder an adaptation.” [May 2025] www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-ev...
Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse
“Individuals with disorders often have advantages, but that does not make the disorder an adaptation.”
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