To study nosologically the Korean shaman's initiation sickness, 'Shin-Byong', the authors investigated 29 shamans with Symptom Check Lisk-90-R(SCL-90-R) and questionnaire without visiting and interviewed 70 shamans using SCL-90-R, questionnaire
and
The
Schedule for Affective Disorder and Schizophrenia-Lifetime(SADS-L). All shamans were located in Seoul.
@ES The results were as follows:
@EN 1) Among symptoms groups of SCL-90-R, 'Shin-Byong' were associated with higher scores in depression, somatization, psychoticism and hostility group in descending order.
2) With DSM-III-R classification, 87.2% of 'Shin-Byong' cases were mood disorder. Another 8.6% of cases were somatization and dissociative disorder and two disorders were related with dissociative phenomenon. Considering the diagnosis of manic
episodes
in this study, it seems to be a part of dissociative phenomenon, 'Shin-Byong' is the syndrome that is mainly composed of depression and disorders which are related with dissociative phenomenon.
3) Shamans have teleologic thinking that 'Shin-Byong' is the phenomenon to receive spirits and diagnose intuitively. They think the main therapeutic method is recieving spirits,
In conclusion, 'Shin-Byong' isn' t a real disease entity but it is a shamanistic disease concept transformed during the shamanistic therapeutic process for depression patients with high dissociative tendency and dissociative disorder.
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