The Role of Islamic Practices in Improvement and Recovery Among the Mentally Disturbed Individuals

Abstract

This paper is based on a study designed to investigate the role of Islamic religion and its warship practices on the Sudanese patient’s improvement, beside the medical treatment. The study was aimed to identify the possibilities of devising means of psychotherapy take religious aspects into their consideration. Eysenk (1960) asserted that current psychotherapeutic methods are not highly effective in restoring normality to the people who are troubled by psychological disorders. His assertion challenged the claims made by the different psychotherapeutic schools, to the efficiency of their methods. Badri (2014) indicated that many eastern health professionals (Muslims as well) focus their attention on the gaps between western and eastern societies in terms of educational progress, technological progress, and mistakenly conclude that anything coming from the west is correct, valuable, even western professional have asserted the importance and the great influence of religion, the religion  and belief on peoples’ responses to life demands.

This research was carried out in Sudan’s capital city which is include a lot of institutions for mentally illness patients. There were two types of questionnaires, one was for the14 mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, and medical psychiatric doctors).The second questionnaire was for 60 (30 male and 30 female) patients who recovering rapidly from their psychological disturbances, the results showed that both patients and mental health professionals admit that religious belief is important. Also warship practices have their effects on improvement and may facilitate the treatment processes. The study recommends Patients should give more interest and attention toward religion if they believe in certain religion.