To work towards the treatment of the disease, doctors are organizing talks on faith. Psychiatrists have disclosed a kind of obsession which Jews and Muslims are afflicted with. It is a mild form of madness that may also be called the “compulsive prayer syndrome,” a form of obsession that takes students of rabbinical colleges, as well as Muslim madrassas, to engage in recitation of prayers the whole day.

For those who fall into a certain confusion between excessive zeal and mental disorder, this is the case of the faithful who repeats the same prayer several times for fear of not having acted with the requisite conviction. It may also be like the one who goes to the bathroom dozens of times to wash and purify himself. These patients are haunted by questions such as ‘Is God pleased with how I pray?’

Muslims showing the type of disorder reread many times the same page of the Koran, become afraid of not kneeling properly, or continuously moving the carpet for fear of not exactly following the way to face Mecca.

Those afflicted are treated in a “homeopathic” manner or with the same thing that afflicts them: religion. Talks on faith are organized to try to change the perspective of patients. Some efforts include removing the fear of divine punishment if one does not pray as he should.

Via Zionism and Israel – Encyclopedic Dictionary