Ravanshenasi & Din

The present paper seeks to define the cases of compulsion-acrasy of checking among religious individuals and mention the treatment methods in Islamic sources of hadith. These cases are drawn from Islamic sources of hadiths, especially Shiite ones, through religious deduction. The same method was used to extract the forms of therapy from authentic sources and define them. This study refers to six cases of compulsion-acrasy of checking which are common among religious individuals: 1. compulsion of checking excretion organs; 2. compulsion of checking minor ritual ablution; 3. compulsion of checking major ritual ablution; 4. compulsion of checking the fulfillment of a debt and rights of men; 5. compulsion of checking prayers; and 6. compulsion of checking nearness to God and feeling of hypocrisy. Six interlinked components were found to cure these compulsions: 1. negating and rejecting perceptive sensations; 2. determining the type of cognition to act; 3. exact determination of behavior boundaries; 4. acting out correct cognitions; 5. Continuation of the act; and 6. refraining from adherence to incorrect beliefs.