Contributed By: Dr. Equbal Wajid (ahmedsi03@marafiq.com.sa)
In America Dr. Syed Hasan have had many experiences in Clinical Psychology. Specially, when counseling to the patients he always tried to know the case history skillfully. He had rather than an strong professional skill to find out he coverts of personalities. In cases of acute depression when the patient likes to hide everything from the counselor he always got the clue easily while others fail to do so. Sometimes the patients accept that they had decided not to tell anything to anyone but they failed in their pledge when Dr. Syed Hasan counseled them to tell the truth or to release their pent-up feelings.
A lady patient in America was under his treatment in the department. She was extremely passive and non-cooperative, she never spoke anything. She keep herself absolutely quite. Dr. Syed Hasan was assigned the job. They both sat in a room made of Glass for hours. The glass was one way transparent. Few of his teachers were watching him from outside as observers. Dr. Syed Hasan and the patient couldn’t see the other side. The woman seemed to be of a tough mind. She spoke nothing to him. This was a big challenge for Dr. Syed Hasan. His teachers were observing the situation. Dr. Syed Hasan started the therapy. He asked question after questions. The lady kept herself quite silent.
Dr. Syed Hasan pretended himself as a staunch supporter and a big admirer of her. As she gazed at him for a while the eye contact was setup, Dr. Syed Hasan stared sustaining her deep in response, delivering a strong emotional support through his eyeballs. He talked to her in a highly respecting, and admiring way, and in a very polite manner with an attractive approach, his voice was soft, near to the ground and extremely supportive. The eyeballs that pretended to give emotional support to her pains, let her assume to be a shelter for her. As a result she busted into tears, and then she spoke all about herself what the therapist needed. The observers became glad, they admired Dr. Syed Hasan for taking her into his trance. Now it was easy for him to help her in maintaining her emotional equilibrium. Once a patients accepts the counselor or he or she gets in his trance it helps in healing the wounds. If the patients rejects the Doctor it becomes hard to take his heart. Ultimately it is more harder to get the patient any kind of command or suggestion.
I believe that Dr. Syed Hasan successfully practiced and illuminated the psychology of Sigmund Freud the father of the Psychology. He was impressed with him and had tried to elucidate his theories in handling with the people. This is the reason that despite some sorts of serious opposition he never yielded from his decision. He used the Freudian Psychology in educating students the lesson to gain self-respect and to get hold of self-reliant. He used to infuse self-respect among the students by different means. He looked people as a psychological being. Through responsibilities, games, sports, speeches, punishments, cultural activities, freedom, sufferings and sanctions he tried to develop the selves of the students. If, all of his teachings and methods can be described in a single word it is the ‘Self- Development’. He was an expert on ‘Self Development’ He had the credit to discover the Power of his mind, as I remember, once, while a programme in the open was postponed due to the sudden break of rain, he said: “It could have been prevented by the will power”.
He applied the Freudian Psychology in ‘Self Development’. He often use to say that the emotional equilibrium of a mankind can be maintained only when he is both professionally and sexually sound. The people who enjoy their profession have lesser chance to be mad. Same as the people who are sexually satisfied have lesser chance to be disastrous in their life. He himself always worked to maintain his equilibrium. As a matter of experience, the development works leave good effects on the mind. It is a successful therapy as well as a proven fact. This is why Dr. Syed Hasan never left the charge of the construction works to others but he always kept it in directly his own supervision. It was common that if somebody asked where is Syed Bhai? “ MAZDOORON KE SAATH HONGE” [ You can find him with the laborers] had been the answer. Through construction works he use to control his mind and overcome the stresses of his daily life.
He believed that every individual is a unique creature on the earth. He never compared one human being to other. He had the faith that not two individuals are alike. He motivated the students to search for their individuality and to explore their magical power of mind.
Though he had profound understanding of the human psychology but he was more interested in adolescence psychology. He took little interest in children rather than the adolescent. He had the authority to understand the talents of the youth and had successfully molded them toward an uncommon emotional balance. He had direct connections with the students of High school and College. From morning to the evening passing through the ways whenever he looked at some students and he felt any kind of abnormality in his behavior, he commented on him and played some fun with him in such a way that his complexes went away. He was of the mind that the formal education of a child may not begin before the age of five. In his personnel case, he never allowed his sons to read until they crossed 5 years of their age. He told us about his son Shafa Syed Hafeez, that he don’t ask him to read until he was 5 years old. As Shifa Syed Hafeez crossed his fifth year he was given to learn ABC book and it was surprising that he could complete the book in one day. Then he was given another book he also finished the book in one day, and so on the story went on. As a result Shifa always topped his class. His problem in the primary school was that it was left nothing new for him in the class.
For Dr. Syed Hasan the word success had the only meaning and that was to search, find and explore the potentials of an individuals. He always held the institutions responsible for the development of a child. He was not satisfied with the education system in India. Once in the meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education, Government of India, he spoke that India is lacking primary school teachers. In the institutions he always held the teachers responsible for the poor performance, lack of faith and love for the cause of education. He wanted the teachers all over India, could be trained in such a way that they could work as the builders of the Nation. When he saw that the teacher of his school proved no interest in a man like Syed Hasan he became frustrated. In 1979 in the issue of 9th August of “SAPAHIK HINDUSTAN” [Hindustan Weekly, a Hindi views paper of the Times of India Publications] he commented on the teachers as follows:
“HAMARE LIYE BACHCHOON SE ADHIK SAMASYA BARE HAIEN, AUR BAROON MIEN BHI MUKHATAH SHIKCHAKGAN, IN KE ANDER KEWAL BACHCHON KE LIYE HI NAHIEN BALKI SAMAST MANAU JATI KE LIYE KISI SUWASATH DRISTI KA VIKAAS NAHIEN HOTA”
[for me, in comparison to the youngers, the elders are much more problems and among the elders, specially the teachers, neither for the children nor for the whole mankind, not a single healthy attitude can be developed among them .]
Dr. Syed Hasan treated everybody as a psychological case. He always used to evaluate the face value. He happen to know through the leer of someone’s face if he is respectful for him or not. He could trace out the hypocritical attitudes of the people easily through their grin. The fellow teachers never dared to face him if they are at the wrong. Nobody can dare to spoke lie before him. When in real or artificial anger he could blaze his eyes, they all felt captive of him. I say, nobody could resist when his enlarged blazing eyeballs could coming out of its frame. His loud voice always supported his blazing eyeballs. They all, either leave the place or move back at such situation. When the storm passed away, then the surroundings turned normal. Later it could spread as a news of the day in the Campus that Syed Bhai shouted on such and such .......
(to be continued)
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