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About the speaker

Awais Aftab, MD, is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and a psychiatrist at Southwest General Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. His academic, educational, and public-facing work focuses on conceptual and critical issues in psychiatry. His first book, “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry,” is an edited volume of interviews published in 2024 by Oxford University Press. He is a senior editor for the journal “Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology.” He writes online on his Substack newsletter, Psychiatry at the Margins.

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Awais Aftab, MD, reports that he was on the community advisory board for Osmind (2023-2024) and receives royalties from Oxford University Press during the past 24 months. He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships have been mitigated through review.  

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