The second of the seminar series on Psychology in Islamic Thought, organized jointly by Ibn Haldun University and the Association for the Study of Psychology and Psychotherapy, was held. On Thursday, April 4, at Istanbul University Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Congress and Culture Center, Dr. Taha Burak Toprak, Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, gave a seminar titled “Islam and Psychotherapy: An Example of a Model and Practice”. The intervention methods in different traditions within Islamic traditions of thought and the intervention methods of modern psychotherapy schools were discussed in a general framework, limitations and possibilities were discussed.
As the seminar coincided with the month of Ramadan, there was an iftar break with a modest menu. In the part that continued after iftar, Dr. Toprak answered the questions of the participants.
Expressing that what exactly is meant by psychology or psychotherapy in the Islamic tradition is directly related to what Muslims who produce knowledge within Islamic thought understand from truth, existence, knowledge and human being and how they define them, Toprak opened the horizons of the participants with his answers.
