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KMID : 0378019700130040118
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New Medical Journal
1970 Volume.13 No. 4 p.118 ~ p.122
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Socio-psychiatric studies in Leprosy Society
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任百仁/Im, Baik In
吳重根/方昇晙/趙?英/Oh, Joong, Keun/Bang, Seung Joon/Cho, Han Young
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Abstract
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The origin of Leprosy is lost in antiquity. Leprosy in Korea is not new, it was known eight centuries ago (1200 A. D. ). In the past, it has been described as a terrifying disease because of the disfigurement that developes as the disease progresses.
Prejudices against this disease have become deeply rooted in the minds of people. They believed that Hansen´ s disease. is incurable and also long standing chronic infectious; disease until modern anti-leprosy drugs which the greatest advance was the discovery that sulfone drugs were effective in leprosy and Sulfone therapy has greatly improved the disease.
Even though bacteriological arrest is obtained in leprosy, the patient in whom the disease has become moderately advanced or advanced may be left with many permanent deformities which are functionally disabling and cosmetically disturbing. In general, there is a lack of knowledge and understanding about infectiousness of leprosy. leprosy.
The patient should be returned to their home town when they had been treated and cured in the leprosarium. However, they are set down to the settle or resettlement villages because of most of community did not wish to give their permission for the exleprosy case to live alone or with relatives in their neighbourhood or ban.
The authors studied why the leprosy are excluded from their community and what is the mechanism of mental defence process.
It is obtained as follows:
1) Leprosy patients abandoned feeling from family which had had in early stage of childhood.
2) Fearful anxiety is caused in castration complex which had in the early childhood.
3) Leprosy patient are rejected from family becaese of economic collaps and ignorance of disease.
4) Leprosy patient attempted suicide several times but most of them did not commit suicide.
5) Most of leprosy patients believed God and they belong to presbyterian and catholic church.
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