ABSTRACT
The Korean Clinical Psychology Association (KCPA) has continued to autonomously issue the state-recognised certificate for 'Clinical Psychology Professional' trying to maintain their professional standards and fight for equal treatment with doctors. Lee Eui-Chul helped to create the division of clinical psychology under the Korean Psychological Association (KPA) in 1964. Psychology in Korea before the Liberation had few ties with American functional psychology but took a new turn during the war. After the Liberation, American military psychologists attached to the US Military Government administration introduced Korean psychologists to intelligence tests and new fields of educational, industrial and clinical psychology. At that time, most Korean psychologists were still very much under the influence of the German psychology of Wundt, Koffka and Kohler, and ideologically unsympathetic towards American approaches to psychology. The KPA made further efforts to stipulate the eligibility regulation and licence for clinical psychologists in order to produce clinical psychology experts.
