This pioneering volume brings together scholars and clinicians working at the intersection of Islam and psychoanalysis to explore both the connections that link these two traditions as well as the tensions that exist between them. Uniting authors from a diverse range of traditions and perspectives including Freudian Jungian Lacanian Object-Relations and Group-Analytic the book creates a dialogue through which several key questions can be addressed. How can Islam be rendered amenable to psychoanalytic interpretation? What might an âIslamic psychoanalysisâ look like that accompanies and questions the forms of psychoanalysis that developed in the West? And what might a âpsychoanalytic Islamâ look like that speaks for and perhaps even transforms the forms of truth that Islam produces? In an era of increasing Islamophobia in the West this important book identifies areas where clinical practice can be informed by a deeper understanding of contemporary Islam as well as what it means to be a Muslim today. It will appeal to trainees and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy as well as scholars interested in religion and Islamic studies. . Language: English