October 31st 2023
Just because a patient has anxiety or past trauma does not mean they cannot enjoy this spooky holiday…
Sense-Making and the Enactive Turn in Psychiatry: Sanneke de Haan, PhD
October 23rd 2020In this interview with Dr Aftab, Dr de Haan discusses her enactive approach to psychiatry which applies insights from enactivism to help conceptualize and navigate the immense complexity of factors that contribute to psychiatric disorders, and articulates the enactive view of psychiatric disorders as disorders of sense-making.
3E Approach to Psychopathology: Kristopher Nielsen, PhD
October 23rd 2020In this interview with Dr Aftab, Dr Nielsen discusses his approach to psychiatry which sees mental disorders as dysfunctions in the behavioral and experiential processes representing “sticky tendencies” in the human brain-body-environment system.
Psychiatry’s Intellectual Crisis: Giovanni Fava, MD
September 17th 2020"It is simply wishful thinking to believe that one course of treatment may entail the solution to problems that we encounter in complex cases," says Dr Fava. Dr Aftab explores a multitude of issues in psychiatry and science in this interview.
Psychoanalysis and the Re-Enchantment of Psychiatry: Jonathan Shedler, PhD
July 29th 2020In this interview, Dr Aftab and Dr Shedler discuss the relationship between the psychoanalytic worldview and the medical model, and they reexamine the role of psychodynamic psychotherapy in contemporary psychiatry and psychology.
The Many Histories of Biological Psychiatry: Anne Harrington, DPhil
July 20th 2020An interview with Dr Anne Harrington, who offers a stimulating and thought-provoking historical perspective on the evolution of biological psychiatry from the German histopathologists to the present time in her recent book.