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[Dunia] Supernatural 'Jinn' Seen as Cause of Mental Illness Among Muslims

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Post time 21-8-2014 05:16 PM | Show all posts |Read mode
It may be common for psychiatric patients who are Muslim to attribute their hallucinations or other symptoms to "jinn," the invisible, devilish creatures in Islamic mythology, researchers in the Netherlands have found.
        The findings demonstrate one way in which culture may influence how people perceive their psychotic symptoms, and could help Western psychiatrists better understand patients who have an Islamic background.

        Moreover, in today's connected world, patients may fuse the symbols from their own backgrounds with those of other cultures to explain their symptoms, study leader Dr. Jan Dirk Blom, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Groningen, told Live Science.

        In Islamic mythology, Jinn, or djinn, are supernatural creatures made of smokeless fire. They are frequently found in Islamic folklore and are mentioned in the Quran, the religious text of Islam. Historically, they are portrayed as menacing creatures that can harm humans, or drive them mad. People in Muslim societies have traditionally seen jinn as the cause of mental illness and neurological diseases, especially epilepsy.

        To get a better idea of how commonly Muslim psychiatric patients consider jinn in the course of their diseases, the researchers looked into the scientific literature.

They found 105 articles about jinn and their relationship with mental disorders, including 47 case reports. About 66 percent of those reports included a medical diagnosis. Nearly half of the cases involved a person with schizophrenia or a related disorder, while the rest of the patients had mood disorders, epilepsy or obsessive-compulsive disorder.

        "The available literature suggests that the attribution of psychiatric symptoms to jinn is common in some Muslimpopulations," the researchers wrote in their review, published July 30 in the journal Transcultural Psychiatry.

        "Since Western health professionals tend to be unfamiliar with this attribution style, diagnosis may prove quite challenging — especially when the patient-physician encounter is already impeded by language problems and cultural differences or biases," the researchers said.

        Moreover, findings from several case reports suggested that the attribution of psychiatric symptoms to jinn also affects the treatment and course of patients' mental disorders, the researchers said.

What are jinn?
        Like any supernatural creatures, Jinn have accumulated a rich world through years of folklore and cultural experiences. They are thought to share many characteristics with humans: Jinn are born, fall in love, get married and die, but also have some superhuman abilities, such as flying, moving mountains, becoming visible only when they wish and appearing as animals. Jinn are described as having hooves like a goat's, and a black tail.

        A belief in jinns seems to have persisted despite recent cultural and political changes within Islamic cultures, the researchers said. For example, two recent surveys done in Bangladesh and the United Kingdom in 2011 and 2012 found that many Muslims believe firmly in the existence of jinn, black magic and the "evil eye."

        But belief in such supernatural beings may prevent people from seeking help from medical professionals, researchers said. Because patients may seek help from a religious leader, the researchers recommend collaboration between medical practitioners and religious health care workers.

"In our practice in The Hague, an imam [a religious leader in Islam] in the service of our psychiatric hospital is available for consultation and advice," they wrote in their review.

Cultures and the mind
        Across societies, beliefs in the supernatural as well as other aspects of culture may influence how mental disorders manifest, the study said. Previous research has found that people with schizophrenia may experience different delusions depending on their cultures.

For example, fears about technology and surveillance play a large part in the delusions of people with schizophrenia in the United States. Meanwhile, in Japan, which has an honor-oriented culture, patients' delusions more commonly involve fears about public humiliation.

        In a recent study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, U.S. patients with schizophrenia reported hallucinations that involved hearing voices with a negative tone, whereas in Ghana and India, patients reported voices with a generally positive tone.

        However, culture is not the only factor that influences psychiatric patients. Blom and his colleagues previously treated a young Muslim patient who had schizophrenia, and who, contrary to the doctors' expectations, didn't attribute his hallucinations to jinn. Instead, the patient had searched the Internet for cases similar to his experience, and had concluded that he was a werewolf.

        "He could not be persuaded to accept any other explanation," Blom wrote in an article describing the case that was published in March in the journal History of Psychiatry.

        As that case shows, the fusing of cultures and easy access to information online today means that people may incorporate other cultures into their own explanations of their mental health symptoms, Blom said.

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Post time 21-8-2014 05:20 PM | Show all posts
isu semasa sungguh
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Post time 21-8-2014 05:21 PM | Show all posts
apa benda dia org ini mengarut lagi.....
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Post time 21-8-2014 05:37 PM | Show all posts
Mari kita buktikan pada mereka bahawa jin bukanlah halusinasi akibat sakit mental, tetapi ia benar2 wujud.

mari kita buktikan dengan menghantar santau. biar mereka tahu penangan jin.
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Post time 21-8-2014 05:40 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Tapi org kita takde pula kes werewolves nih,harimau adalah.
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 Author| Post time 21-8-2014 05:43 PM | Show all posts
CariMalay posted on 21-8-2014 09:37 AM
Mari kita buktikan pada mereka bahawa jin bukanlah halusinasi akibat sakit mental, tetapi ia benar2  ...

Amboi hang
Yang penulis ni non muslim jadi maybe perspektif dia lain sikit plus pemahaman dan kepercayaan orang berbeza2
Sabaq na..
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Post time 21-8-2014 05:44 PM | Show all posts
jinn ni ada ke tak de?
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Post time 21-8-2014 05:45 PM | Show all posts
GhostWalking posted on 21-8-2014 05:43 PM
Amboi hang
Yang penulis ni non muslim jadi maybe perspektif dia lain sikit plus pemahaman dan  ...

haha.. saya bergurau ajer ..
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Post time 21-8-2014 05:50 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Islamic mythology?

Haha ade ke pulak mitos...entiti ghaib ni wujud...


Part of rukun iman mempercayai percaya ghaib. Ini wajib, dalam agama lain pun ade...kalau x citer Conjuring tu mai mane?

Anyway...isu berkisar psikiatri dan budaya ni menarik

Mcm juga voodoo dan masyarakat africa or keturunan mereka yg diaspora di merata dunia...macam mana nak bezakan yg 'normal' trance dan yg abnormal...?
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Post time 21-8-2014 05:53 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Kat UK, yg seorang  Egptian Muslim tengok case psychosis ni ..i suka the way he look at it...depa of course menerima science itu tetapi lebih terbuka berkata wallahua'lam.
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Post time 21-8-2014 05:57 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Problemnya ...depa tak faham atau berkongsi Islam nyer world view.

Sebab tu susah...

Dan masalah kat TT ni...are u ready to set a few point of discussion? Atsu sekadar menempek tengok posting tanpa arah?

Ni dah mencakupi trascultural psychiatry..


Dan penulis ni  highlight...dlm zaman glbalisasi...entiti yg dihalusinasikan tu dah teraduk...mcm werewolf tu...

Interesting ni...

By the way you all faham istilah psychosis and neurosis ni?
Aps itu delusion ?
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Post time 21-8-2014 05:58 PM | Show all posts
kasmela posted on 21-8-2014 05:44 PM
jinn ni ada ke tak de?

jin ni mcm angin.. tak boleh nmpk, tk bleh rse walaupun angin tu ade dlm badan kita, di sekeliling, walaupun di depan mata, tp ia wujud.

mengikut ilmu pengetahuan bomoh2, jin juga mempunyai pelbagai spesis. seperti bunian, toyol, lembaga hitam (yang selalu duduk rumah2 kosong dan menindih badan manusia), langsuir, pontianak, semangat tanah, semangat air, semangat api, di negara lain, spesisnya lain. di negara barat, ada spesis yang mempunyai banyak kaki, selalu duduk di hutan2, dan akan mengeluarkan bunyi kuat yg menakutkan di waktu malam.

makhluk halus itu jugak selalu menjadikan manusia sebagai rumah. mengikut ilmu pengetahuan bomoh lg, hindu dan islam adalah agama yg sellau terkena gangguan makhluk halus, kerana sesetengah bacaan ayat al-quran dan pemujaan hindu mampu menarik perhatian makhluk halus untuk berdamping.
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 Author| Post time 21-8-2014 05:59 PM | Show all posts
mbhcsf posted on 21-8-2014 09:57 AM
Problemnya ...depa tak faham atau berkongsi Islam nyer world view.

Sebab tu susah...

Im ready to read opinions
Ilmu pada sesiapa yang nak berkongsi
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Post time 21-8-2014 06:00 PM | Show all posts
PakarSantau posted on 21-8-2014 05:58 PM
jin ni mcm angin.. tak boleh nmpk, tk bleh rse walaupun angin tu ade dlm badan kita, di sekeliling ...


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Post time 21-8-2014 06:00 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
GhostWalking posted on 21-8-2014 05:59 PM
Im ready to read opinions
Ilmu pada sesiapa yang nak berkongsi

Well kena faham basic psychiatric concept dulu

Apa itu psychosis?

Delusion?

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Post time 21-8-2014 06:01 PM | Show all posts

..Jinn Syi'ah kaa atau Jinn Sunni..??  
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mbhcsf posted on 21-8-2014 10:00 AM
Well kena faham basic psychiatric concept dulu

Apa itu psychosis?

Delusion bilamana kita rasa sesuatu itu berlaku contradict dengan realiti kan?
Contoh delusi mengatakan kita nampak sesuatu makhluk bilamana sebenarnya ia tak berlaku
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Post time 21-8-2014 06:03 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
The question is, where is the dividing line ...normal or abnormal...

Jin kr pemujaan ke bukan khusus pada muslim

Ada budaya syirik yg pemujaan vodoo tu

Nak label depa tu schizophrenia ,ke?
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Post time 21-8-2014 06:03 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
GhostWalking posted on 21-8-2014 06:03 PM
Delusion bilamana kita rasa sesuatu itu berlaku contradict dengan realiti kan?
Contoh delusi meng ...

It lies in the thought...believe..

Look at definition of delusion
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Post time 21-8-2014 06:04 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
pyropura posted on 21-8-2014 06:01 PM
..Jinn Syi'ah kaa atau Jinn Sunni..??

Ni sure tak pi waitrose shopping ni...so jin u naik 'syeikh' haha
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