Tag: aftab

Mental health professionals are trained to be technicians rather than provided with the opportunity to discover the craft of healing.

Robert Whitaker responds to Awais Aftab's inaccurate smear campaign toward Mad in America and other critics.

Despite finding no meaningful correlation between genes and substance use, high-profile geneticists misleadingly conveyed optimistic results.

Although I disagree with much of Dr. Aftab's article, it is, nevertheless, a courageous piece of writing. He calls out many of psychiatry's contradictions and errors.

Though many psychiatrists have abandoned the "chemical imbalance" concept, they now promote the use of a pre-scientific notion that the only criteria for defining disease is the presence of distress or impairment.