Mental Health, Psyche & Spirituality: Finding Balance Within Our Internal Cosmos | Dr Samir Mahmoud

Event Blurb

Our mental health has reached a flash point. We live in the most comfortable society in human history – yet, one in every five people in Australia is currently taking some sort of psychiatric medication.

We were outraged when our own brethren said ‘depression is a lack of iman’. Yet, despite the unprecedented cultural shift in approach towards mental health – we are no closer to a solution.

What exactly is causing this breakdown? And what safeguards does our tradition hold?

Speaker Bio

Dr. Samir Mahmoud is currently Academic Director of Usul Academy (www.usul.academy). He is also Program Manager of the Diploma in Islamic Psychology at the Cambridge Muslim College.

Recently he was Assistant Professor at the Lebanese American University. He has a BA (Hons) in Anthropology & Politics with a focus on multicultural theory and comparative religion, and an MA in Architectural History, Theory & Urban Design with a focus on the traditional townscape from the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. He also holds an MPhil in Theology & Religious Studies with a focus on comparative philosophy and aesthetics. He completed a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Dr. Timothy Winter (Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad).