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- Title
The Folk Healings in Korea.
- Authors
Yong Chon Park; Sun-Hea Lee
- Abstract
The article discusses a study which investigates the folk healing in Korea. The folk healing is the primitive experiential knowledge by the instinctual need from the ancient times. The study reviews 54 articles from the Korean studies information service system. It is indicated that the folk healing may be irrational, primitive and hard to understand. The concept may contain the wisdom and experience of the ancestors which may be helpful to the understanding of the patient and development of the new therapeutics. It is revealed that the concept and treatment of mental illness in the country are closely related and can be classified as primitive and supernatural, somatic and natural, and folk psychological.
- Subjects
KOREA; TRADITIONAL medicine; HEALING in folklore; ALTERNATIVE approaches in education; PREVENTIVE medicine; EXPERIENTIAL psychotherapy; RELIGION &; medicine; MENTAL health; CULTURAL psychiatry
- Publication
International Medical Journal, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 2, p106
- ISSN
1341-2051
- Publication type
Article