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About WIAMH
FOUNDED BY: DR. GAMAL ABOU EL-AZAYEM
EDITED BY: DR. FAROUK EL-SENDIONY
HONORARY PRESIDENT:
H. R. H. Prince Mamdouh Bin Abdul Aziz
PRESIDENT:
Dr. Abu Bakr Badahdah
Ex-Presidents:
Dr. Osama El-Rady
Prof. Rashid Chaudhry
Prof. Dr. Syed Arshad Husain
President: Elect:
Dr. Ahmed Abou El-Azayem
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HEAD OFFICE:
Nasr City P. O. 8180
Cairo, Egypt
FAX: 202-2600541
Secretary General:
Dr. Farouk El-Sendiony
Treasurer:
Dr. Ahmed Abou El-Azayem
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Vice Presidents:
Dr. Abu Bakr Badahdah
Prof. M. Shafique
Prof. A. E. Gangat
Dr. A. M. Al-Naboulsi
Dr. Muhammad Jalali Tehrani
Prof. Dr. A. Z. Al-Ashwal
Dr. A. S. Al-Khulaidi
Dr. Hussain Habul
Dr. Jaffer Quershi
Dr. O. Sinnanovic
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Saudi Arabia
Pakistan
South Africa
Lebanon
Iran
Egypt
Yemen
Malaysia
United Kingdom & Europe
Bosnia & Herzegovina
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ADVISORS :
Prof. Dr. T. A. Baashar
Dr. Osama Al Rady |
Sudan
Saudi Arabia |
THE WORLD ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH, hereafter referred to as WIAMH is an Islamic Association founded approximately two decades ago by Drs. Gamal Abou El-Azayem, Muhammad Rashid Chaudhry, Osama El-Rady, Omar Shaheen Arshad Hussain and Farouk Sendiony with the objective of promoting the mental health of Muslims. Since modern psychiatry is a Western import to the Muslims it was felt by pioneer Muslim psychiatrists, that for psychiatry to work more effectively in the Muslim world all aspects of the psychiatric process including Diagnosis, Prognosis Treatment, and Planning for Psychiatric Facilities, have to be adapted to the Islamic cultural context. The major objectives are to promote mental health in Muslim countries and to carry research in cultural psychiatry of the Muslims. It is hoped to coordinate efforts with other international mental health bodies such as the World Psychiatric Association and its Section of Transcultural Psychiatry, Pan Arab Congress of Psychiatry and others.
Since its foundation the WIAMH has conducted numerous national and international conferences around the world (Lahore - Pakistan - 1985 and 1991; Cairo - Egypt - 1987 and 1994; Tripoli - Lebanon - 1996; Leicester - United Kingdom - 1997).
WIAMH pioneered in the area of Trauma Psychology. In collaboration with University of Missouri – Columbia, International Center for Psychosocial Trauma they sponsored International Conferences on Post War Mental Health Issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The First International Conference on Post War Mental Health Issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina was held on March 11, and 12, 1996 in Sarajevo. The second was held in Columbia – Missouri, U.S.A. on July 11-12, 1998. The third congress was held in Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzogovina and was organized by the World Islamic Association for Mental Health and the International Center for Psychosocial Trauma (University of Missouri, Columbia, U.S.A.). The central theme which cross cut these international congresses was: Traumatiztion: An Islamic Perspective. All aspects of Traumatization, including Diagnosis, Psognosis, Treatment, Prevention of Post Traumatic Stress were adjusted to the Islamic Cultural Context.
Ralph Patai a well known anthropologist says that in the Middle East, religion holds a supreme sway over behavior, thinking and feelings. This is particularly true for Islam which defines self (and hence mental health) in a religious rather than a secular term. In Islamic view, religious and mental health forces are intimately intertwined. These observations have lead a number of Muslim Psychiatrists around the world to develop innovative methods for the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental illness.; in these conferences, a number of world renowned psychiatrists from Islamic Countries participated and presented the programs they have developed utilizing the Islamic Principles. Dr. M.F. El-Sendiony from Australia discussed Islamic views of mental illness, Dr. Osama M. Al-Radi from Saudi Arabia, presented various Islamic preventive and therapeutic modalities, Dr. Gramal Abu El-Azayam from Egypt presented his program on drug addiction and Dr. Arshad Husain discussed the child rearing practices in Islamic culture and its impact on future mental health of individuals.
Tomorrows’ historians may well look upon the current period as one in which serious attempts were made to understand better the differences as well as the similarities between men throughout the world.
In this respect, the reader of this Website will be richly rewarded, as it affords an overall picture of mental illness and its treatment in the Muslim World. But more than, this the authors of this Website will weave this data firmly into the socio-cultural fabric of the Muslim World.
The reader may find it instructive to note similarities to all other cultures, similarties to some, and perhaps some features unique to the Muslim World.
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