You can see a detailed list of my academic publications on Google Scholar. Some notable publications can be accessed below.

Aftab A, Wright AGC, Rodriguez-Seijas C... DeYoung CG. Examining the Foundational Assumptions of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. 2026. (Response to Commentaries)

Levinovitz A, Aftab A. The Rumpelstiltskin effect: therapeutic repercussions of clinical diagnosis. BJPsych Bulletin. 2025.

Aftab A, Banicki K, Ruffalo M., and Frances A. Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Clinical Guide to Navigating Diagnostic Pluralism. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 2024.

Stein DJ, Nielsen K, Hartford A, Gagné‐Julien AM, Glackin S, Friston K, Maj M, Zachar P, Aftab A. Philosophy of psychiatry: theoretical advances and clinical implications. World Psychiatry. 2024.

Aftab A, Sadler JZ, Kious BM, Waterman GS. Conceptual competence in psychiatric training: building a culture of conceptual inquiry. BJPsych Bulletin. 2024.

Aftab A, Druss BG. Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in Youth—Sick Individuals or Sick Societies? JAMA Psychiatry. 2023

Aftab A. Mental disorders in entangled brains. Philosophical Psychology. 2023

Aftab A. Epistemic justice is an essential component of good psychiatric care. Psychological Medicine. 2023.

J Weleff, BS Barnett, DY Park, TJ Akiki, A Aftab. The state of the catatonia literature: employing bibliometric analysis of articles from 1965–2020 to identify current research gaps. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. 2023

Aftab A. The Future Is Political and Transdisciplinary. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. 2023

Aftab A. Can the psychopathologized speak? Notes on social objectivity and psychiatric science. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. 2022

Aftab A, Collings S, Jones N. Beyond Binary Narratives of Mental Health Advocacy: Latent Profiles of Mental Health Activists and Advocates With Lived Experience. Psychiatric Services. 2022. 

Aftab A, Stein DJ. Psychopharmacology and Explanatory Pluralism. JAMA Psychiatry. 2022. 

Aftab A, Huda AS, Meechan C. Beyond problematic binaries in mental healthcare. Psychological Medicine. 2022.

Aftab A, Nielsen K. From Engel to Enactivism: Contextualizing the Biopsychosocial Model. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy. 2021.

Aftab A, Ryznar E. Conceptual and historical evolution of psychiatric nosology. Int Rev Psychiatry. 2021.

Aftab A, Rashed MA. Mental disorder and social deviance. Int Rev Psychiatry. 2021.

Aftab A, Waterman GS. Conceptual Competence in Psychiatry: Recommendations for Education and Training. Academic Psychiatry. 2021.

Aftab A. Conceptual psychiatry: the ground beneath our feet. International Review of Psychiatry. 2021.

Jerotic S, Aftab A. Scientific pluralism is the only way forward for psychiatry. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 2021.

Aftab A, Sharma M. How not to think about biomarkers in psychiatry: Challenges and conceptual pitfalls. Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry. 2021.

Aftab A. Experimental Philosophy of Psychiatry. Bulletin of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. 2021.

Aftab A. The false binary between biology and behavior. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. 2020.

Aftab A, Joshi Y, Sewell D. Conceptualizations of Mental Disorder at a US Academic Medical Center. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2020.

Aftab A, Csernansky JG. Diagnosis and Conceptualization of Mental Illness. in Landmark Papers in Psychiatry. Eds: Csernansky JG, Reinecke MA, Ryznar E, and Pederson AB. Oxford University Press. 2020.

Aftab A, Lee EE, Klaus F, Daly R, Wu TC, Tu X, Huege S, Jeste DV. Meaning in Life and Its Relationship With Physical, Mental, and Cognitive Functioning: A Study of 1,042 Community-Dwelling Adults Across the Lifespan. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2020.

Aftab A, Lagrotta C, Zyzanski SJ, et al. Impact of Psychiatric Hospitalization on Trust, Disclosure and Working Alliance with the Outpatient Psychiatric Provider: A Pilot Survey Study. Cureus. 2019.

Aftab A, Ghaemi N, Stagno S. A Didactic Course on "Philosophy of Psychiatry" for Psychiatry Residents. Academic Psychiatry. 2018.