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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 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:
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  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: 00:00:00 - Episode start 00:01:20
  - Introduction 00:03:38 - The case Awais makes for pluralistic thinking in
  psychiatry 00:15:30 - A pragmatic approach to mental healthcare 00:19:04 -
  Awais's take on why my OCD diagnosis took 10 years 00:24:19 - Why psychiatry
  is stuck where machine learning was decades ago 00:31:05 - Why psychiatry's
  focus should shift from explanations to predictions 00:39:19 - How Awais
  thinks AI is already changing the psychiatric profession 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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# The Future of AI in Medicine: From Rules to Intuition | Awais Aftab, Psychiatrist and writer

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: 00:00:00 - Episode start 00:01:20 - Introduction 00:03:38 - The case Awais makes for pluralistic thinking in psychiatry 00:15:30 - A pragmatic approach to mental healthcare 00:19:04 - Awais's take on why my OCD diagnosis took 10 years 00:24:19 - Why psychiatry is stuck where machine learning was decades ago 00:31:05 - Why psychiatry's focus should shift from explanations to predictions 00:39:19 - How Awais thinks AI is already changing the psychiatric profession 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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