Abstract: In essence, Islamic sufism is a discipline that discusses spirituality and the human psyche. Discussion sufism always talks about the problems of man’s relationship with his god and man’s relationship with his own soul and the souls of others. Sufism has a close relationship with psychiatry or mental health. Therefore, the discipline of sfism can not be separated from the study of health and life following its development, purging as well as healing the sick soul. Sufism began to get a decent place in today’s modern society because in modern society began to appear symptoms of inner aridity and spiritual emptiness and sfism is seen as an answer to the problems facing modern man. From this and started widely studied sufism, demand and accepted by modern society both in the east and in the West. They studied sufism is not just a way to get closer to God but also as a method for treating mental illness he suffered. Treatment of mental illness with this approach is known as sufi mysticism psychotherapy. Institutions nuanced alternative medicine now widely sufism emerged everywhere. From this researcher considers, it important to outline the concept of sufi psychotherapy for mental health development of modern man. This study examines the notion about the sufi psychotherapy and further study about the important position sufi psychotherapy, the following objects, methods, functions, objectives and the techniques used in psychotherapy sufistik.