Quran and Medicine

Quran and Medicine

Examining Extreme Responsibility as a Fundamental Component of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder from the Perspective of Psychology and Religious Teachings

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mohaddese Roushanzamir 1
Seyyed Mohammad Boroomand 2
Muhammadibrahim Roushanzamir 3
1 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
2 Department of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Theology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
3 Razavi University of Islamic Sciences
Abstract
Aim:Obsessive-compulsive disorder is considered one of the most debilitating psychiatric disorders that has adverse psychological and economic consequences for the individual and society. Religious obsession is one of the first types of obsessions, which, in addition to mental disorders, is aggravated by certain religious beliefs, especially about the matters concerning religious purity and impurity. According to some psychologists, one of the effective components in the occurrence of obsessive-compulsive disorder is excessive responsibility. Extreme responsibility means believing in being responsible for what is beyond one's ability. This research answers these questions, to what extent religious teachings are aligned with psychological attitudes and what solutions do they offer to solve this mental disorder.

Method: This article is organized in a descriptive-analytical way and library sources were used to collect data.

findings :The findings of this research show that Quranic and narrative teachings rely on the principle of moderation in religious conduct, while valuing responsibility, warn against overdoing it. These guidelines, warnings and some valid jurisprudential principles and rules help an obsessive person who has suffered mental turmoil due to cognitive deviations to keep his sense of responsibility in moderation by correcting beliefs based on extreme responsibility and not having feel guilt or fear of rejection. Some of these jurisprudential principles and rules are: the principle of "no compulsion", "permissibility", "purity", "exculpation", "correctness" and rules such as the rule of "ignoring doubt in some conditions".
Keywords
Obsession
extreme responsibility
religious treatment of obsession
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