Dr. Awais Aftab

PSYCHIATRIST

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Psychiatry, Critical Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Psychiatric Nosology, and History of Psychiatry.

I am a psychiatrist in Cleveland, Ohio (USA) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University.

Psychiatry at the Margins is my Substack newsletter about exploring critical, philosophical, and scientific debates in psychiatric practice and the psy-sciences.

In 2025, I was profiled by the Lancet Psychiatry and described as “one of the discipline’s foremost public intellectuals.”

My book Conversations in Critical Psychiatry, an edited volume of interviews, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024. Find out more. 

You can learn more about my academic and public-facing work through this website.