Expected Promising Future of Psychoanalysis in Korea

Abstract

The authors considered current status of the Korean psychoanalytic movement as the beginning of enormous future developments. Then the authors briefly reviewed how the current state of development had taken place in Korea. Also, the authors tried to find important reasons why the rapid growth of the practice of psychoanalysis in Korea happened. One of the reasons was thought to be due to the supply of object constancy through psychoanalysis for identity confusion induced by the lack of consistency from rapidly changing economic and societal conditions of Korea since 1960’s. The authors also suggested many methods for psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, medical students, psychiatric patients, and the general population respectively to maintain and uphold the trend of development of Korean psychoanalytic movement.