Towards Hikmah Therapy: Integrating Ibn al-Qayyim’s Tazkiyah and Frankl’s Logotherapy in Adressing Contemporary Mental Health Challenges
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Hikmah Therapy, Ibn al-Qayyim, Tazkiyah al-Nafs, Viktor Frankl, Logotherapy.Abstract
Mental health is a crucial issue in the 21st century. Global data shows that more than 970 million people suffer from mental disorders. Meanwhile, in Indonesia, the prevalence continues to increase. This phenomenon is not solely related to biological and social factors, but also to the crisis of meaning and spiritual emptiness experienced by modern humans. This study aims to formulate an integrative model between Ibn al-Qayyim's Sufism and Frankl's logotherapy to address contemporary mental health challenges. The method used is a qualitative literature-based study with a comparative-interpretive analysis approach. The results show that, with existentialism as its basic assumption, logotherapy emphasizes the search for individual meaning as a path to healing. Meanwhile, Ibn al-Qayyim emphasizes worship as objective meaning and tazkiyah al-nafs as a path to peace of mind. Integration is carried out by first evaluating the basic assumptions and paradigms of logotherapy. The combination of these two techniques produces the concept of wisdom therapy. This model offers a contribution to the development of a more comprehensive contemporary Islamic psychotherapy.
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