Psychiatry in South Korea

¹ Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, 34 Park St., New Haven, Conn. 06519
² Assistant Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Chief, Department of Psychiatry, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Hoekidong, Seoul, Korea

A study of the developmental history of psychiatry in Korea is instructive since in Korea the forces of tradition (particularly shamanism, folk medicine, and religion) and the forces of modernization are sensitively reflected.

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