Abstract
This research is to present a ninth-century Muslim polymath, Abu Zayd Al-Balkhi,and his theoretical contribution on the formation of the epistemological equilibrium betweenmental disorder and mental health which tends to be separated in the history of Westernpsychology. In his phenomenal treatise, The Sustenance of Body and Soul, Al-Balkhi made abridge between ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ psychology in the common clinical approaches. Thisstudy also reveals the cognitive therapy approach as Al-Balkhi’s authentic finding in the Islamicworld, an approach well known long before modern psychology developed. Particular attentionis paid to Al-Balkhi’s emphasizes in positioning his theory of mental health, especially in apositive approach, in such as a pioneer of the Western psychological one.
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