Tarik Al-Habib

Education

Born on 16 October 1966 in Unaizah, he qualified in medicine and surgery at King Saud University in 1991 and obtained a diploma in psychiatry from the same university in 1994. He continued his postgraduate training in Ireland and Britain, earning the specialist certificate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (1995), and in 1996 the Jordanian Board in Psychiatry and a fellowship from King Saud University.

Career

He became a lecturer in King Saud University's Department of Psychiatry in 1996 and an assistant professor in 1997, then a consultant psychiatrist at King Khalid University Hospital, where he headed the psychiatry department from 1998 to 2002, before being promoted to full professor. He is chief supervisor of the Mutma'inna medical centres (Riyadh, Qassim, Kuwait, Bahrain and Muscat) and of the Mutma'inna television channel, has served as a psychiatric consultant to the Abu Dhabi Health Authority, and is secretary general of the executive council of the Quranic therapy conferences, which bring together physicians and religious scholars.

Media and books

A psychological consultant to several Arab channels, he appears weekly on an MBC programme. He has published around forty scientific papers and books including Schizophrenia, Misconceptions about Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Quranic Treatment, Simplified Psychiatry, My Mother Taught Me, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and How to Dialogue, several of which are used as references in medical schools across the Arab world.