Abstract:

Psychology, which has been in philosophy since ancient times, has a quite ancient and rooted history. The emergence of modern psychology is based on the last period of the 19th century. Before modern psychology, psychology in the Islamic world was expressed as "science-nefs". The aim of this study is to introduce modern psychology in the Ottoman State, which has dominated a wide geography for seven centuries, into a special science, to the psychological health practices applied and to address the original literature of the psychological science that emerged in the last period of the Ottoman. According to the results of the research; in the Ottoman State, it can be said that a holistic approach is applied in psychological health practices. Before modern psychology became science, psychological health practices took advantage of architecture, nature, healthy nutrition, aromatherapy and music. The modern psychological literature in Ottoman began to form from the 1870s. Many psychological works, including authorship and translation of psychology science that became science in the last period of the Ottoman State, have been published in Ottoman Turkish.

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