Full Description
This book is a second edition of the 2019 volume of Islamophobia and Psychiatry. This necessary 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 psychiatrist's 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 deemed 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. Also important is that it should be useful for anyone concerned with the adverse repercussions of Islamophobia. It is the fifth volume, following volumes on Islamophobia, Antisemitism, Christianity, and the Eastern traditions, in an unprecedented series on religions, spirituality and psychiatry. Taken all together, they present a model process and guideline for a comprehensive interfaith consideration of our various mental health challenges and elusive solutions. This particular volume is designed to address our ethical principle of helping to improve the mental health of the community, in this case, Muslim communities in particular. There is hardly a more cogent, potent, and urgent global social psychiatric issue.
Contents
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 Psychiatrist's Perspective.- 20. Islamophobia: Social, Religious, and Clinical Considerations from a Jewish Psychiatrist.- 21. Islamophobia: A Christian Psychiatrist's Perspective.- 22. Islamophobia: A Hindu Psychiatrist's 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.
