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Conversations in Critical Psychiatry
The Bureaucratic Takeover of American Psychiatry: George Dawson, MD, DFAPA
November 13, 2020
In this interview with Dr Aftab, Dr Dawson discusses how the rise of managed care industry and associated business forces have led to a profound deterioration of psychiatric practice environment in the United States.
Sense-Making and the Enactive Turn in Psychiatry: Sanneke de Haan, PhD
October 23, 2020
In 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 23, 2020
In 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.
Phenomenology, Power, Polarization, and the Discourse on Psychosis: Nev Jones, PhD
October 08, 2020
Having experienced psychosis herself, a psychologist wants us to rethink how we understand and treat this complex condition.
Psychiatry’s Intellectual Crisis: Giovanni Fava, MD
September 17, 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.
The Medical Model in Theory and Practice: Ahmed Samei Huda, MBChb, MSC
September 05, 2020
In this interview with Dr Aftab, Dr Huda discusses his views on the medical model in psychiatry, the misconceptions surrounding it, its strengths and limitations, and its relationship with other frameworks.
Moving Beyond Psychiatric Diagnosis: Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
August 14, 2020
In this interview, Dr Aftab and Dr Johnstone discuss her criticisms of psychiatric diagnosis and her approach to psychological formulation as a conceptual alternative to diagnosis.
Psychoanalysis and the Re-Enchantment of Psychiatry: Jonathan Shedler, PhD
July 29, 2020
In 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 20, 2020
An 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.
The Battle for the Soul of Psychiatry: Ronald W. Pies, MD
June 24, 2020
In this interview, Dr Aftab and Dr Pies revisit several debates concerning various criticisms of psychiatry that Dr Pies has been involved in over the course of his career, and they discuss how to make sense of the profession’s relationship with its critics.