Mohammad Samir Hossain is a Bangladeshi theorist and one of the few Muslim scientists in the field of Death anxiety research.
Education
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 Doctor of Philosophy in Psychotherapy, he was fully engaged in Death anxiety (psychology) researches.
Career
He is also an author of multiple theory books on Death adjustment. Education and Hossain passed SSC and Higher School Certificate exam from Ideal School and College and Dhaka College respectively. Hossain is a physician.
He taught Psychiatry at the Medical College for Women and Hospital at Uttara in Dhaka.
He is an honorary external faculty of the Palliative Care Service at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University where he teaches death related psychiatry. Hossain"s educations in different modes of distance learning, after his medical graduation, created some sort of traumatic turmoil during his early career inside his own country.
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 United Kingdom, 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 theorizes that death should not be considered the end of existence.
Views
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.
Personality
He is the pioneering physician to introduce Scientific Thanatology and Spiritual Psychiatry in Bangladesh.