Islam and Psychology

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Does psychology go against Islamic teachings?

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i mean, there will be muslim psychologist,/or psychatrists,/counsellor etc that the muslim society can go to
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you plan on the future muslims to be loony? inshallah may Allah save me and the rest from ever having to see a shrink
 
Asalaamu alikum
I have been planning to study Child Psychology insha'allah. Since Sciences do me no good-it doesnt penetrate through my head. lol.

As far I have spoken to some ppl who intially planned on studying psy. they ve told me that..psy is mostly all abt experimentng with human mind..its all presumptions..i dont knw much to begin with..

but my personal opinion is that as long what we study we do it for sake of ALLAH and to benefit Islam. then its all good.
 
Assalamu alaikum pplz

I'm thinking about studying psychology in college and I have a question.
What are your views on studying psychology being against Islamic beliefs???
Do you agree?
Do you disagree?
Why?
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Salam Sister

I am v glad that u r considering to study Psychology. First its not against Islam. Secondly, u will be able to influnce ur socity positivly with Pscyhology.

Anyways, I got one concern " where r u planning to study Psychology?"
if u r plannin to study Psych in Western Univerisy, check the courses first. I have an Australian freind who traveld to Malaysia to study Pscyhology in "International islamic Univerisy" n her reason were that in Australia they teach v western type of psychology, with lots of un-islamic contents, n she said they r so much focused on "Homosextuals" n all that stuff.

My minro was Psychology, n fro my personal experiance i think its hard to study psychology without the Islamic point of view. If u think u can get that at ur institute...then go for it...if not...see if u can go to some Islamic institute to study that.
 
Noora_z3 said:
Salam Sister

I am v glad that u r considering to study Psychology. First its not against Islam. Secondly, u will be able to influnce ur socity positivly with Pscyhology.

Anyways, I got one concern " where r u planning to study Psychology?"
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im planning to study psych in NYC, that's where i live and i am not planning on going out of state or anything.
 
nurofislam said:
Assalamu alaikum pplz :)

I'm thinking about studying psychology in college and I have a question.
What are your views on studying psychology being against Islamic beliefs???
Do you agree?
Do you disagree?
Why?
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aslaam alaikum

with regards to your question i can only answer from my limited experience, i recently had to write my dissertation on a certain 'branch' of psychology namely the works of Gustav Jung and similarly connected people.
i can only say that it made me more aware of my own ego and in that respect i am greatful.
there were many things i came across which i pondered upon and not realy agreeing... set out on my own search for truth. since then i have read many things, often by chance, which have done much to strenghthen my own faith and bring me closer to the person i want to be.

i think you should go for it! if anything your faith will always allow you to question anything you do not see fit and you do not have to be afraid. this is my own view and im not sure if it is entirely right so feel free to make subjective criticism if i have said anything wrong.

many thanks
 
I was thinking about it too. Is there anything wrong with it? My brother does cognitive science though, and some of the theories are really weird.
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M.I.A. said:
aslaam alaikum

with regards to your question i can only answer from my limited experience, i recently had to write my dissertation on a certain 'branch' of psychology namely the works of Gustav Jung and similarly connected people.
i can only say that it made me more aware of my own ego and in that respect i am greatful.
there were many things i came across which i pondered upon and not realy agreeing... set out on my own search for truth. since then i have read many things, often by chance, which have done much to strenghthen my own faith and bring me closer to the person i want to be.

i think you should go for it! if anything your faith will always allow you to question anything you do not see fit and you do not have to be afraid. this is my own view and im not sure if it is entirely right so feel free to make subjective criticism if i have said anything wrong.

many thanks
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nice way of looking at it brother.
 
An old retired Psychologist speaking here. One thing to keep in mind there are many fields of psychology. Most people are only aware of Clinical psychology and/or the various areas of "Pop" psychology.

Way back in the stone age, when I began my studies, there were over 80 recognised fields of psychology with at least 4 different disciplines in each field.

My self I studied in the area of physiological psychology and followed in the discipline of Dr. Jose Del Gado. This was essentialy the same as neurology, except I never got to operate on any live people LOL.

So getting down to "is the study of psychology wrong"? I think the answer would be it depends on what the student thinks it is and their reason for studying it.

If they believe they will be able to use it as a tool to manipulate people, then it is just as wrong as if they were studying chemistry for the purpose of learning to construct terroristic weapons.
 
Woodrow said:
So getting down to "is the study of psychology wrong"? I think the answer would be it depends on what the student thinks it is and their reason for studying it.

If they believe they will be able to use it as a tool to manipulate people, then it is just as wrong as if they were studying chemistry for the purpose of learning to construct terroristic weapons.
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i see what you are saying and i agree with you. i know that you didn't ask, but my purpose for desiring to study psychology is that i want to better understand how the human mind works and why it works that way. I am fascinated with the human mind and i want to help those who have problems that need help and support . More importantly, I see psychology as a very important subject to study especially if you like being around people. If somebody studies psychology, they are more likely to be able to understand people and their actions.
 
apart from some of freuds odd theories, alot of it is interesting stuff
psych is one of those "non mathematically precise" subjects, (except the bio perspective stuff), so some things might change over time
but definately it's not haram or wrong to study psychology

umm.. it can even be used as part of dawah, to fidn best approaches to people...
 
nurofislam said:
yes, i have thought of that too. :)
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Nurofislam, based on your answers in this thread. I would suggest you select either Education or Sociology as your major and carry Psychology as a strong minor concentrating on Developmental psychology and Behaviorism.

Sadly, one of the strange artifacts of education is "The more qualifications a person acheives in their chosen field, the further removed they become from the reason they chose the field." Quote from one of my old professors (Brian Kovacs) Meaning if you achieve too much expertise in an area you end up as either a supervisor or teacher of the area, rather then being a practioner.
 
*noor said:
Assalamu alaikum pplz :)

I'm thinking about studying psychology in college and I have a question.
What are your views on studying psychology being against Islamic beliefs???
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I think, I may be wrong, that this comes from the idea that Sigmund Freud had a weired way of interepreting human thoughts, you the id, ego thing. I don;t agree with most of it.

Has anyone read, Freud's interpretation of dreams? I haven;t. But is it against what Prophet Muhammad (sal) has said about dreams?

But other than Freud, Psych is alright.
 
I am a psychology major myself, hoping to study primate intelligence, consciousness, & cognition. I love the field and do not think it goes against Islam. There are many theorists out there that seem odd or eccentric, but when you really understand what they are getting at, it is very intriguing. Basically, it various models of how to explain human thought and behavior.
 
Keep in mind Psychology is the newest field of science to be explored. Freuds contribution is that he removed it from phylosophy into the realm of quantifiable data. His work initiated the system of measurement for behavior. It is still a developing and growing field. Nearly all who enter into the field are still basicaly pioneer researchers.

There are many fields populary believed to be psychology, but they are as far removed from psychology as astrology is from astronomy.

It is a very interesting and honorable field of study, as long as it is learned through a bonafide university and not through some pseudo-metaphysical organization.
 

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