한국의 문화정신의학 : 어제와 오늘 A Historical Sketch = Cultural Psychiatry in Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Brief historical review of Korean cultural psychiatry was carried out. Since 1960s, cultural psychiatric research in Korea has been active and ambitious. Research areas were broad : epidemiology, folklore, shamanism, religious experience, disease concept and attitude toward mental disorders, culture specific clinical entities and psychopathology etc. Recently, well-controlled comparative studies of psychopathology and acculturational problem, transculturally or chronologically, have contributed much to the development of cultural psychiatry. Study of cultural psychiatry in Korea is a promising area, since Korea is a rapidly changing society where the forces of tradition and of modemization, as well as the complex cross-currents of cultural interaction in the society, are sensitively reflected.