J Korean Neuropsychiatr Assoc.
1999 Jan;38(1):5-11.
Psychiatry in Korea for 21 Century: Quo vadis?
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Neuropsychiatry, College of Medicine & The Mental Health Research Institute, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- In this review article, the author tried to predict the characteristic features of psychiatric population and mental health problems in a new century in Korea. Accordingly the desirable attitude of psychiatrists and the scope of psychiatry were suggested. As problem areas, problems of adolescence, senility, family, stragglers, quasireligion, community mental health and transcultural practice were predicted. As psychiatrists' scopes to be accomplished, subspecialty in practice, community-based approach, cooperation with parapsychiatric and religious personnels, transcultural approach in practice, accomplishment of desirable mental health delivery system were suggested. Finally, psychiatric education suitable for the future society was emphacized for the better contribution.
