The

Dilemma
of
/Muslim
Psychologists

MALIK B. BADRI
 Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 The Muslim Psychologist as a Behav-
iourist 4
3 Where Psychology Merges with Philo-
sophy, Art and Speculation 15
4 Islamic Ideology Vs. Atheistic Philo-
sophical Psychology 25
5 The Muslim Child Psychologist in the
Lizard's Hole 29
6 The Psychometric Pit 37
7 The Muslim Educational Psychologist
who Repeats "His Master's Voice" 46
8 The Psychoanalytic Abyss 53
9 The Darkest Depths of the Freudian Pit 58
10 The Dethroning of Freud in the West 63
11 As Muslim Psychologists What Shall We
Really do about Western Psychology ? 72
12 Psychology in the Service of Islam . 78
 i. Psychotherapy in the Service of Islam 78
ii. The Islamic psychometrician 87
iii. Educational psychology in the cause
of Islam 90
iv. The Islamic social psychologist 96
v. An Islamic concept of personality 99
13 Are All Schools of Western Psychology
Soulless 103
14 What About Soulless Schools of Western
Psychology 112
15 How To Help Them Out of the Pit 118
i. The phase of infatuation 118
ii. The phase of reconciliation 119
iii. Phase of emancipation 120
References 124
Index 127

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