Complementing the Treatment of a Major Depressive Disorder Patient with Ruqyah Shar‘iyyah Therapy: A Malaysian Case Study

Complementing the Treatment of a Major Depressive Disorder Patient with Ruqyah Shar‘iyyah Therapy: A Malaysian Case Study

This paper describes a female patient with major depressive disorder with psychotic features, who underwent mainstream psychiatric treatment complemented with ruqyah shar’iyyah (incantations based on Qur’an and prophetic traditions) healing in Malaysia. The patient faced the stigmatization of mental health within her family and had poor coping mechanisms, in addition to an incomplete understanding of what characterizes a religiously observant Muslim faith healer, in the early phases of her illness.

Zul Azlin Razali, Nor Azian Ab Rahman & Supyan Hussin

2018

200825030

Journal of Muslim Mental Health