島嶼住民의 精神疾患 槪念에 關한 調査 : 전남 여천군 화정면을 중심으로 = Study of the Islanders Concept about the Mental Illness

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This is a fieldsurvey of the concept of mental ollness Among 325 subjects living in an Island. called Huajeonmyon, in the south coast of Korea. The results are as follows.
The concepts of the adolescents and those of the middle adulthood the elderly are quite contrasting; the adolescent's concept indicated organic etiology, supernatural and religious treatment and pessimistic prognosis of the mental illness, while the latter's concept meant psychological etiology, hospital treatment and rather optimistic prognosis. The group that had the mentally ill in their family or relatives favored supernatrual therapy and anticipated recovery but eventual relapse, while the group without experience of having the mentally ill among the family or relatives relied more on the folk medicine and had more pessimistic outlook on the mental illness.