On Thursday, June 6, the fourth session of the series on Psychology in Islamic Thought was held at Istanbul University’s Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Congress and Culture Center. In the seminar, Our Association President Dr. Taha Burak Toprak delivered his presentation titled “An Attempt at a Roadmap.” 

In the presentation, the possibilities and limitations of the fields regarding how a solid relationship and roadmap could be established between our traditional heritage and modern psychology were discussed. Alongside these discussions, the areas of constants and variables were emphasized through a multidimensional model of reality. Dr. Toprak highlighted that questioning constants could lead to corruption, while failing to understand variables might result in dogmatism.

Dr. Toprak stated that different therapy models have different ontological understandings, which also changes their approaches to psyche. He emphasized that these preferences shape the interventions made in the therapy room, making it important to be aware of the metaphysical understandings of the models used.