Islamophobia and Psychiatry. Recognition, Prevention, and Treatment

Sections 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. History and Principles of Islam and Islamophobia
4. Islamic Perspectives on Psychological and Spiritual Well-Being and Treatment
5. Religiosity and Mental Health in Islam
6. The Social Psychology and Neurobiology of Intergroup Conflict
7. Art for a Better World
8. Symbols and Identity in Islamophobia
9. Cultural Literacy
10. The Cultural Formulation in the Islamophobic Context
11. Clinical Assessment Tools for Culturally Competent treatment of Muslim Patients

Section II: Psychiatric Implications of Islamophobia

12. Transference and Countertransference in Addressing Islamophobia in a 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. Muslim Psychiatrists in Training Address Islamophobia in Clinical Experiences
18. Islamophobia From the American Muslim Perspective
19. Islamophobia: A British Muslim Experience
20. Islamophobia: Social, Religious, and Clinical Considerations from a Jewish Psychiatrist
21. Islamophobia: Social, Religious, and Clinical Considerations from a Christian Psychiatrist

Section III: Specific Clinical Challenges

22. Addressing the Mental Health Needs of African American Muslims in An Era ofIslamophobia
23. Islamophobia and Ethical Challenges for LGBT Mental Healthcare
24. Islamophobia and the Mental Health of Rohingya Refugees

Section IV: Social Psychiatric Implications

25. Muslim Women and Islamophobia
26. Muslim Youth in the Face of Islamophobia: Risk & Resilience
27. Children, Adolescents, and Islamophobia
28. Muslim Refugees
29. A Case Study of the Political Determinants of Division: Muslim Perceptions of British Combat Troops
30. Community Resilience
31. Islamophobia and Public Mental Health: Lessons Learned from Community Engaged Projects
32. The Psychological Determinants and Social Influences of Violent Extremism

The book begins by covering the general and clinical challenges that are unique to Muslims, drawing from an internationally, ethnically, and intergenerationally diverse pool of experts. The text covers not only how psychiatrists and other clinicians can intervene successfully with patients, but how we as clinicians can have a role in addressing other societally connected mental health challenges arising from Islamophobia. The text addresses three related but distinct areas of interest: Islamophobia as a destructive force, Islam as a religion that is threatened by stigma and misinformation, and the novel intersection of these forces with the field of psychiatry.

Islamophobia and Psychiatry is a vital resource for all clinicians and clinicians in training who may encounter patients struggling with these issues, including adult and child psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, counselors, social workers, and others.

H. Steven Moffic MD
Medical College of Wisconsin (retired)

John Peteet MD
Harvard Medical School

Ahmed Hankir MD
Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies

Rania Awaad, MD
Muslim Mental Health and Wellbeing Program
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine