THE DILEMMA OF THE MUSLIM PSYCHOLOGIST

Psychology. with all its by- products and off shoots. has assumed in the  West the status oi religion. and for many people has replaced it. As in other areas ofsocial sciences. some Muslim thinkers and scholars have developed an amazing skill for the unthinking repetition and blind
copying of Western. non-lslamic ideas and practices.
• In the Lizard’s Hole” is a Prophetic epitaph that describes this activity very well. Some Muslim psychologists insist dogmatically on prying even into lizard’s holes that have been partly Or totally abandoned their counterparts.
But do Muslims really need nuclear psychology at all? Is modern psychology Wholly Western? Is there way in Which it could be reconciled with Islam? burning questions lie lurking behind the
dilemma Of Muslim psychologists.
author, a practicing Muslim and experienced psychotherapist, professor Of psychology for several years and an established authority in the field. takes a somber. non-pedantic look at this dilemma,
leading the way towards its solution. He argues that the Techniques which have from the
philosophy. anti-religious, underlying some psycho therapeutic and psychiatric have. in fact, acquired a certain measure of autonomous neutrality, and can be useful in serving the cause of Islam. Muslim psychologists can restore spiritual vigour to the ailing materialistic behaviourism of the West, and to Western psychology asa whole. He provides clinical evidence on how
this could be achieved.

• AUTHOR: MALIK BADRI