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Ibnu Sina or also known as Avicenna in the West - the father of modern medicine.

Was reading about one of his books, Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb "The Law of Medicine", or The Canon of Medicine, or Qanun in wiki and i came across this:

"...In clinical psychology and psychotherapy, Avicenna often used psychological methods to treat his patients.

One such case study is when a prince of Persia had melancholia and suffered from the delusion that he is a cow, and who would low like a cow crying "Kill me so that a good stew may be made of my flesh" and would never eat anything. Avicenna was persuaded to the case and sent a message to the patient, asking him to be happy as the butcher was coming to slaughter him, and the sick man rejoiced. When Avicenna approached the prince with a knife in his hand, he asked "where is the cow so I may kill it." The patient then lowed like a cow to indicate where he was. "By order of the butcher, the patient was also laid on the ground for slaughter." When Avicenna approached the patient pretending to slaughter him, he said, "the cow is too lean and not ready to be killed. He must be fed properly and I will kill it when it becomes healthy and fat." The patient was then offered food which he ate eagerly and gradually "gained strength, got rid of his delusion, and was completely cured."

Among the many other psychological disorders described in the Qanun, one is of unusual interest: love sickness. Ibn Sina is reputed to have diagnosed this condition in a Prince in Jurjan who lay sick and whose malady had baffled local doctors. He noted a fluttering in the Prince's pulse when the address and name of his beloved were mentioned. The great doctor had a simple remedy: unite the sufferer with the beloved..."

Mashallah. Such a brilliant Muslim scholar with vast knowledge in different fields. I find him and his works inspirational especially in his field of medicine. If i have the chance, I would wanna get a copy of the Qanun.