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KMID : 1172020010020010001
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Journal of Korean Bioethics Association
2001 Volume.2 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.18
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The Relationship between medical anthropology and psychoanalysis
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Chin Kyo-Hun
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Abstract
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The main purpose of this thesis on the relationship between medical anthropology and psychoanalysis is to evoke physicians what true medicine for patient care is, and why the physicians should consider the medical anthropology, especially bio-ethics. Physicians should take into account anthropological consideration in medical theory and practice. However, physicians treat patients as mechanic organisms because contemporary medicine concentrates almost on materialism and scientism which are based on the law of causality. In this context, we should approach medical anthropology through studying depth psychology and philosophical anthropology. According to depth psychology, physicians should think over patient’s psychological background because the outbreak of disease could come from patient’s life history and the defects of Self. Above all, physicians should know that psychosomatic diseases are related to malignant regression. Therefore, we can make up for the weak points in the contemporary medicine through psychosomatic treatment. I think, physicians themselves are the most important in the psychological treatment and psychosomatics. In other words, physician’s personality is very important element in medical treatment. We should know that patient is not a object but a subject, and that physicians and patients are in the cooperative relationships. So, physicians should respect patient’s personality in the course of medical treatment. In conclusion, we could understand the person through psychoanalytical thinking and treatment.
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KEYWORD
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Medical Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, Psychosomatics, Subject, Patient’s Personality
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