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Medicine's Awais Aftab discusses the relief people experience from diagnosis

Media | January 06, 2026 | Story by: Editorial Staff

Beyond the Label: The transformative power of diagnosis

NPR: Awais Aftab, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, discussed the relief and even therapeutic effect some people experience when their symptoms can be categorized by a diagnosis rather than as a character defect, which he calls "the Rumpelstiltskin effect."

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