Mohammad Samir Hossain

Mohammad Samir Hossain (born 28 November 1976) is a Bangladeshi theorist living in New Zealand who is one of the few Muslim scientists He is the pioneering physician to introduce scientific thanatology and spiritual psychiatry in Bangladesh. He is also an author of multiple theory books on death adjustment.

Education and career

Hossain passed SSC and HSC exam from Ideal School and College and Dhaka College respectively. He completed his medical graduation from Sir Salimullah Medical College in Dhaka. After that, he studied Basic modern psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Philosophy (Death) for which he participated in different external educational activities offered from different institutions including some prestigious ones like Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Yale University. After his education in Psychotherapy, he was engaged in death anxiety researches. Hossain also studied Public Health in Auckland University of Technology in 2016 and 2017. He is an honorary external faculty of the Palliative Care Service at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University where he teaches death related psychiatry.

Theory

Of all the works of Hossain, Death and adjustment hypotheses is the most noteworthy one in the field of death anxiety research. Apart from his books written on it, in UK, the Royal College of Psychiatrists at London published the theory as the article Facing the finality: Death and Adjustment Hypotheses. Later, once again it reached the international community of scientists through the Taylor & Francis publication Journal of Loss and Trauma as the article Introducing Death and Adjustment Hypotheses. With the declaration of the hypotheses, two things were postulated. The first part of the hypotheses theorises that death should not be considered the end of existence. The next segment states the belief that the immortal pattern of human existence can only be adopted in a morally rich life with the attitude towards morality and materialism balanced mutually.

Books

Two most practised theory books in English language authored by Hossain are Quest for a New Death and Human Immortality He lives in New Zealand since 2016 with his son and wife.