한국 전쟁 이후 정신보건 영역과 여성 몸에 대한 통제 = The Post-Korean War Mental Health Sector and the Control of Women’s Bodies

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In the political turmoil of liberation and the Korean War, poverty and mental breakdown were widespread for many in the South Korea.
Under the influence of Japanese-style mental hygiene education, mental health professionals who adopted American-style psychiatry during the Korean War attempt to expand the mental health field and their authority in postwar society. Institutions, built to control social minorities, combined with eugenics, became a key part of this endeavor. The Seoul reformatory for women was established with the rise of Park Chung-hee’s government, which sought to govern the population. As the only facility systematically run by mental health professionals, it psychopathologized the women and pathologizing depoliticized the social injustices that created the women who deserved to be quarantined in the first place and faciliated their institutionalization in the name of treatment and care. In the process, gender and disability worked simultaneously, and differences among women based on disabilities were neutralized.