10 Critical Conversations to Evaluate the Status Quo in Psychiatry

Over the last 2 years, Psychiatric Times^TM has hosted Awais Aftab, MD’s popular series, Conversations in Critical Psychiatry, which highlights critical and conceptual issues in the mental health arena. It has featured a range of interviewees, some in fierce opposition to psychiatry and its claims to medical and scientific authority, others alarmed by overdiagnosis and medicalization of ordinary life and seeking reform, and yet others working to move the profession beyond reductionist narratives. The goal, however, was never criticism for the sake of criticism; it was to have meaningful criticisms of psychiatry and to pursue constructive alternative perspectives.