This book is a second edition of the 2019 volume of Islamophobia and Psychiatry. This update conveys how important and challenging the subject matter remains. The first edition of this book came at a time when Islamophobia was rising in the United States and elsewhere, and the adverse mental health repercussions were significant: disparagement of Muslims, Muslim fears of asking for help from psychiatry, undue fear of Muslims by others, and increased anxiety for Muslims, amongst others. Since then, Islamophobia has waxed and waned. Islamophobia plays a major role in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, and the psychological trauma ripples out into the world.
Attention to Islamophobia in this volume is thereby applied to different countries and from different religious perspectives. The focus is on psychiatric aspects, including new topics such as a Hindu psychiatrists perspective, burnout in Muslims, learning the clinical influence of religion, a new psychiatric process to negotiate international conflict, and a unique dialogue between a Muslim psychiatrist and a Jewish psychiatrist, moderated by a Christian psychiatrist. Notably, the editors were also able to secure a rare but needed Palestinian perspective on collective trauma from a psychiatrist with lived experiences in the West Bank. Valued chapters from the first edition have been retained and revised where necessary.
First and foremost, this is a vital expert resource for all clinicians and clinicians in training who may encounter patients and colleagues struggling with Islamophobia, including for adults and child psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, counselors, social workers, nurses, administrators, and others. It is the fifth volume, following volumes on Islamophobia, Antisemitism, Christianity, and the Eastern traditions, in an unprecedented series on religions, spirituality and psychiatry.
Editors Introduction to Second Edition.- Editors Introduction.- Part
I. General Issues.-
1. Mental Health in the Islamic Golden Era: The
Historical Roots of Modern Psychiatry.-
2. Islamophobia: An Introduction to
the Academic Field, Methods, and Approaches.-
3. Islamic Perspectives on
Psychological and Spiritual Well-Being and Treatment.-
4. Religiosity and
Mental Health in Islam.-
5. The Social Psychology and Neurobiology of
Intergroup Conflict.-
6. Art for a Better World.-
7. Symbols and Identity in
Islamophobia.-
8. Cultural Literacy.-
9. Psychiatric Cultural Formulation in
the Islamophobic Context.-
10. Clinical Assessment Tools for the Culturally
Competent Treatment of Muslim Patients.-
11. History of Islamophobia in
American Society.- Part II. Psychiatric Implications of Islamophobia.-
12.
Transference and Countertransference in Addressing Islamophobia in Clinical
Practice.-
13. Islamophobia: A Jungian Analytical Perspective.-
14. The
Islamophobic Normative Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Considerations.-
15.
Challenges of Islamophobia: Psychiatric Considerations for Effectively
Working with Muslim Patients.-
16. Understanding Islamophobia and Its Effects
on Clinicians.-
17. Islamophobia from An American Muslim Perspective.-
18.
Muslim Psychiatrists in Training Address Islamophobia in Clinical
Experiences.-
19. Islamophobia in the United Kingdom: A British Muslim
Psychiatrists Perspective.-
20. Islamophobia: Social, Religious, and
Clinical Considerations from a Jewish Psychiatrist.-
21. Islamophobia: A
Christian Psychiatrists Perspective.-
22. Islamophobia: A Hindu
Psychiatrists Perspective.-
23. What Does Islam Say About Burnout and
Self-Care?.-
24. Islamophobia, Genocide, and Mental Health: A Palestinian
Perspective on Collective Trauma.- Part III. Specific Clinical Challenges.-
25. Addressing the Mental Health Needs off African American Muslims in an Era
of Islamophobia.-
26. Islamophobia and Ethical Challenges for LGBT Mental
Healthcare.-
27. Islamophobia and the Mental Health of Rohingya Refugees.-
28. The Islamic Approach to Addressing Undue Anxiety.-
29. An Early Career
Muslim Psychiatrist and Her Clinical Challenges.-
30. American Islamophobia:
Psychological and Clinical Implications.- Part IV. Social Psychiatric
Implications.-
31. Muslim Youth in the Face of Islamophobia: Risk and
Resilience.-
32. Children, Adolescents, and Islamophobia.-
33. Caring for
Muslim Refugees.-
34. A Case Study of the Political Determinants of Division:
Muslim Perceptions of British Combat Troops.-
35. Community Resilience.-
36.
Islamophobia and Public Mental Health: Lessons Learned from Community
Engagement Projects.-
37. Psychological Determinants and Social Influences of
Violent Extremism.-
38. Islamophobia in Canada.-
39. The Mental Health of
Elders in the Context of Islamophobia.-
40. International Medical Graduates
(IMGs) Muslim Women and Islamophobia.-
41. Interventions to Reduce
Islamophobia Using the Contact Hypothesis.-
42. Faith Under Fire: The
Intersection of Mental Health and Islamophobia in Muslim Student
Communities.-
43. Non-Muslim Allies Fighting Islamophobia.-
44. Youth as a
Global Arab Culture: Clinical Considerations.- Part V. Islamophobia and
Judaism.-
45. Islam and Judaism in Medieval Society and the Life of
Maimonides: Its Implications for Modern Islamophobia.-
46. Islamophobia and
Antisemitism: Understanding the Roots and Exploring Solutions.-
47.
Islamophobia in the Context of the Arab-Israel Conflict.-
48. Islamophobia
and Antisemitism: An Interview with a Muslim and a Jewish Psychiatrist.- Part
VI. Perspectives on the Future of Islamophobia.-
49. From Hatred to Healing:
A Healing-Centered Framework for the Wounds of Islamophobia.-
50. The FBI TV
Series and its Counter-narrative about Islamophobia.-
51. Reciprocal
Accommodations: A Social Psychiatric Perspective on Islamophobia in Quebec.-
52. The Future of Islamophobia. Editors Conclusions. Editors Conclusions to
the Second Edition.
H. Steven Moffic MD Pro Bono Private Community Psychiatrist Since academic retirement, he has been a prolific writer and speaker, currently including a weekday column titled Psychiatric Views on the Daily News since October 2021, and a weekly video on Psychiatry and Society since September 2020, both for Psychiatric Times. He has been the lead editor on a 4-volume series on religions and psychiatry for Springer. Other prior books include The Ethical Way: Challenges & Solutions for Managed Behavioral Healthcare (Jossey-Bass, 1997) and Combating Physician Burnout (APA, 2020). He is viewed as an expert in cultural psychiatry, social psychiatry, religion and psychiatry, psychiatric ethics, and collegial relationships. He has been an advocate and activist for mental health issues related to climate instability, physician burnout, and xenophobia, as well as successfully addressing sensitive and controversial psychiatric issues. For these contributions, Dr. Moffic was awarded the Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award at the 2024 APA. John R. Peteet MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School After receiving his M.D. degree at Columbia University, he completed a medical internship at UNC in Chapel Hill, a residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and a fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, in Boston. For over 40 years he has been a psychiatrist at Brigham and Womens Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. A Distinguished Life fellow of the APA, he has received several teaching awards and published numerous papers in the areas of psychosocial oncology, addiction, and the clinical interface between spirituality/religion and psychiatry. He has authored or co-edited 13 books, including Doing the Right Thing and Depression and The Soul. He is the recipient of the APAs Oskar Pfister Award and is past chair of the APAs Caucus on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry. Ahmed Hankir MD Honorary Visiting Professor Cardiff University School of Medicine Professor Ahmed Hankir MBChB MRCPsych is Honorary Visiting Professor at the School of Medicine, Cardiff University (UK), Assistant Professor at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University (Canada) and Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist (Canada and UK). Professor Hankirs research interests include global and Muslim mental health and pioneering and evaluating innovative interventions that reject mental health related stigma. Professor Hankir is the recipient of the 2022 WHO Director General Award for Global Health. Rania Awaad MD Clinical Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine Dr. Rania Awaad M.D., is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine where she is the Director of the Stanford Muslim Mental Health & Islamic Psychology Lab as well as Stanford Universitys Affiliate Chaplain and Affiliate Professor of Islamic Studies. In the community, she serves as the President and Co-Founder of Maristan, a holistic mental health nonprofit serving Muslim communities, and the Director of The Rahman Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating Muslim women and girls. In addition, she is faculty of Islamic Psychology at Cambridge Muslim College and The Islamic Seminary of America. Prior to studying medicine, she pursued classical Islamic studies in Damascus, Syria, and holds certifications (ijaza) in the Quran, Islamic Law, and other branches of the Islamic Sciences.
