Abstract

The present authors try to build a model for counseling and psychotherapy which are efficient for Korean people and suitable for Korean culture. Thus, this is a formulation of an Korean indigenous cultural approach. The theoretical model suggested by the present authors suggests that Shimcheong counselors and therapists are given two major types of assignment. One is to conduct in-depth analyses of the kinds of damaged Shimcheong as well as others and events related to this Shimcheong. Given these analyses, therapeutic interventions and processes are designed. Then, it is required to establish concretely modes of Shimcheong-based discourses and to introduce them to the therapeutic processes. At this point, Shimcheong-discourses should be bidirectional in terms of reciprocal communication, unlike psychoanalysis in which the therapist listen to the client and make psychoanalytic interpretations of this client. These Shimcheong-discourses can occur in natural everyday settings when therapists and clients feel each other in the weness and Cheong-relationship.