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The Future of AI in Medicine: From Rules to Intuition | Awais Aftab, Psychiatrist and writer
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OCD treatment changed my life—but it took me a decade of chasing down wrong answers to be diagnosed.
In the rush to create scalable treatments, disorders like depression and OCD are squeezed into diagnostic checklists—from which the complexity of the human mind invariably leaks out. The field of psychiatry is broken, and I spoke to someone on the inside about how AI can help fix it .
Awais Aftab has been questioning psychiatry’s rigid categories from inside the field. He’s a clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University, editor of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry—an Oxford University Press volume that tackles philosophical and critical perspectives in psychiatry—and author of the Substack newsletter Psychiatry at the Margins. We get into how AI is transforming psychiatry by embracing the complexity of human minds instead of flattening it.
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Timestamps:
- Introduction: 00:01:20
- The case Awais makes for pluralistic thinking in psychiatry: 00:03:38
- A pragmatic approach to mental healthcare: 00:15:30
- Awais’s take on why my OCD diagnosis took 10 years: 00:19:04
- Why psychiatry is stuck where machine learning was decades ago: 00:24:19
- Why psychiatry’s focus should shift from explanations to predictions: 00:31:05
- How Awais thinks AI is already changing the psychiatric profession: 00:39:19
Links to resources mentioned in the episode:
- Awais Aftab: @awaisaftab, awais aftab
- Awais’s Substack: Psychiatry at the Margins
- The book Awais edited: Conversations in Critical Psychiatry
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Manage episode 486863015 series 3537585
OCD treatment changed my life—but it took me a decade of chasing down wrong answers to be diagnosed.
In the rush to create scalable treatments, disorders like depression and OCD are squeezed into diagnostic checklists—from which the complexity of the human mind invariably leaks out. The field of psychiatry is broken, and I spoke to someone on the inside about how AI can help fix it .
Awais Aftab has been questioning psychiatry’s rigid categories from inside the field. He’s a clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University, editor of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry—an Oxford University Press volume that tackles philosophical and critical perspectives in psychiatry—and author of the Substack newsletter Psychiatry at the Margins. We get into how AI is transforming psychiatry by embracing the complexity of human minds instead of flattening it.
If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!
Want even more?
Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free.
To hear more from Dan Shipper:
- Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe
- Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper
Sponsor: Microsoft Teams
Want seamless collaboration without the cost? Microsoft Teams offers a robust free plan for individuals that delivers unlimited chat, 60-minute video meetings, and file sharing—all within one intuitive workspace that keeps your projects moving forward. Head to https://aka.ms/every to use Teams for free, and experience effortless collaboration, today.
Timestamps:
- Introduction: 00:01:20
- The case Awais makes for pluralistic thinking in psychiatry: 00:03:38
- A pragmatic approach to mental healthcare: 00:15:30
- Awais’s take on why my OCD diagnosis took 10 years: 00:19:04
- Why psychiatry is stuck where machine learning was decades ago: 00:24:19
- Why psychiatry’s focus should shift from explanations to predictions: 00:31:05
- How Awais thinks AI is already changing the psychiatric profession: 00:39:19
Links to resources mentioned in the episode:
- Awais Aftab: @awaisaftab, awais aftab
- Awais’s Substack: Psychiatry at the Margins
- The book Awais edited: Conversations in Critical Psychiatry
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