Awais Aftab, MD, shares his advice for psychiatric trainees and early career psychiatrists: Read widely in the philosophy of psychiatry and engage with existing scholarship.

You can read more of Aftab's thoughts in his upcoming book, Conversations in Critical Psychiatry. This book contains a series of 24 interviews originally seen in Psychiatric Times from 2019 to 2022, plus new original content. The book will be available to US readers on November 20, 2024. You can preorder here.

Dr Aftab is a psychiatrist in Cleveland, Ohio, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. He writes online on his blog Psychiatry at the Margins.