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The Role of the TIIP Therapist

11/8/2020

 
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Dr Abdallah Rothman contributed to the new book "Applying Islamic Principles to Clinical Mental Health Care", published by Routledge.

He and Dr Hooman Keshavarzi and Dr Fahad Khan co-authored Chapter 2: "The Role of the TIIP Therapist" which provides a discussion of the role and scope of practice for the Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy (TIIP) model fo care. The chapter discusses proposed core competencies for mental health providers aspiring to provide TIIP.
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the state of the therapist

8/17/2020

 
Dr. Abdallah Rothman gave a talk on the state of the therapist's heart in Islamic psychotherapy at the Symposium on Psychology and Spirituality in Istanbul March 4, 2019. In this short presentation he discusses the position of an Islamic psychotherapist as innately involving an aspect of spiritual guidance given the nature of the domain of the soul. Considering this, Dr. Abdallah suggests that it becomes an ethical obligation of the therapist to be constantly engaged in a process of tazkiyat an nafs (purification of the soul) and that beyond therapeutic technique, a significant factor in the therapeutic relationship is the state of the therapist's heart for acting as a clear mirror for the client.

Antidepressants, the soul & the psychology of kufr

7/20/2020

 
Dr. Abdallah Rothman was the guest on the Karima Foundation Podcast where he speaks about the need to adapt our orientation to religious knowledge to make it more accessible for practical application in today's contemporary world. He discusses the tendency for people to avoid facing themselves and the common response of "covering over" our inner truth or attempting to bypass the struggle and difficulty associated with growth and healing.
Karima Al Marwaziyya Foundation · Ep6 | Antidepressants, the Soul & the Psychology of Kufr - Islam and Psychology |Dr Abdallah Rothman
You can also view the video recording of this podcast on the Karima Foundation Youtube channel.

conceptualizing an islamic psychotherapy

6/16/2020

 
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​A new article by Dr. Abdallah Rothman has been published in the APA Journal 
Spirituality in Clinical Practice.
This article builds upon an Islamic model of the soul (Rothman & Coyle, 2018) to develop a data-grounded, experience-based ‘iceberg model’ of Islamic psychotherapy. The findings and the model offer new insights for the continued development of clinical interventions within an approach to psychotherapy that has Islamic integrity and explicitly values Muslims’ religious orientations and commitments.
The advance online publication version is available with institutional access at APA's website here
The accepted manuscript version is available by open access here
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The Iceberg Model of Islamic Psychotherapy (Rothman & Coyle, 2020)

The psychospiritual basis of disease

3/15/2020

 
Dr. Abdallah Rothman addresses an audience of medical doctors at a conference in Karachi, Pakistan exploring the Islamic perspective of healing and the psychological and spiritual aspects of disease. He discusses the holistic approach to medicine that early Muslim scholars took and explains how the soul can be taken into consideration when treating physical, emotional and spiritual health.

What Islam Offers to Modern Self Help: An Islamic Paradigm of Psychology

2/6/2020

 
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The human being is body, mind, heart, and spirit. Often times, the self-help industry ignores this truism which brings about hidden, often unintentional misguidance that can lead to spiritual crisis, or worse, distance from our connection with God.

In this thought-provoking article, Dr. Abdallah Rothman shares powerful points including:
  • The forgotten rich tradition of 'ilm an nafs' (knowledge of the soul) inherent in Islam.
  • What does it mean to change oneself and how does one do this?
  • An Islamic perspective of the self as an integrated human being
  • Fitrah: The soul’s true identity
  • The structure of the soul (along with a visual infographic of the soul)
  • Understanding self-development as the development of the soul
Read the full article

Knowledge of Self: An Islamic Model of the Soul

8/14/2019

 
Dr. Abdallah Rothman joins Baraka Blue again on his podcast "Path and Present". Building off the last conversation about the understanding of the self and psychology from an Islamic perspective, this time the two discuss in more detail the model of the soul that was the product of Dr. Abdallah's research in Islamic psychology.
You can view a larger picture of the model that is discussed in this podcast here

The Holistic Approach to healing in the islamic tradition

7/20/2019

 
Abdallah Rothman gives a talk at the Ottoman era Dar al Shifaa in the complex of Sultan Bayezid II Health Museum in Edirne, Turkey, discussing Islamic psychology in the context of the holistic approach to health and healing that was historically practiced in the Islamic tradition. From the 2018 IAIP summer intensive course on Islamic psychology and psychotherapy.

Sufism & Psychology: An Islamic Model of Spiritual Development

5/25/2019

 
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Abdallah Rothman joins Baraka Blue on his podcast "Path and Present" to discuss Islam, psychology, human nature and psycho-spiritual development.


​click the play button below to listen or visit the path & present page

approaching islamic psychology

2/9/2019

 
Abdallah Rothman joins another episode of the Coffee with Karim podcast to discuss approaching theory and practice of Islamic psychology. He gives an intro to how it works and what principles can help believers find more peace and flow through life challenges.
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