الصحة النفسية لدى أبو زيد البلخي

الملخص EN

In his book (The management of organic and mental hygiene) Abu Zayd Al-Balkhy devoted almost half of this volume elucidating his views on the nature of mental hygiene, psychological adjustment, ab¬normal psychology as well as the management of irritability, fear, de¬pression and obsessions.

The book, authored over 1200 years ago, seems to appeal to modern psychiatric thinking in more than one way.

For one thing al-Balkhy’s book advances the thesis of holistic and psy¬chosomatic medicine in an extremely lucid and progressive style.

Fur-thermore, the book identifies anxiety and mood disorders and the fac¬tors precipitating them in a way which could not be more familiar to 20th century psychology.

Finally al-Balkhy adopts a cognitive behav-iorist stance in his psychotherapy with methods similar to those of Wolpe and Lazarus.