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How Does the Psychiatrist Know?: On the Epistemology of Psychiatric Diagnostic ReasoningBook

by Adrian Kind, 2025

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Awais Aftab
Psychiatrist and writer; author of the newsletter Psychiatry at the Margins and editor of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry.
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Recently I reviewed Adrian Kind’s 2025 book, “How Does the Psychiatrist Know?: On the Epistemology of Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning,” on this substack. I had mentioned that Kind’s book is the first systematic, in-depth, book-length philosophical investigation into how psychiatrists arrive at their diagnostic conclusions.

His introduction to a guest post, recalling his own review of Adrian Kind’s book on psychiatric diagnostic reasoning.

2025-05-25·psychiatrymargins.com ↗

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