I've seen this topic alluded to in a couple of other forum posts and comments, but I think it merits its own thread. My question is, just how accurate do you all think the portrayal of psychology is in Dr. Frost? If you look at the credits, the creator does have a few psychologists with whom he consults, presumably on the factual content in the manhwa.
From what I can remember of my psychology classes, the treatment of psychodynamic theory is pretty accurate. It's interesting, though, that Frost and the other members of the university psychology department all seem to work with the "old-school" approaches to psychology; that is, approaches that center around individualized talk therapy, using concepts originally developed in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century by some of the heavy hitters of the era: Freud, Jung, Adler, and so on.
While all of this material presented seems accurate enough, it's interesting that newer approaches are not mentioned. For example, the big thing in modern psychology relates to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approaches, but this is never brought up at all, to my knowledge. There aren't even any humanist psychologists in the manhwa, even though humanistic psych is several decades old. Okay, I can't see Frost taking up the mantle of Carl Rogers, but maybe one of his colleagues might?
This makes me wonder about the reasons for these omissions. For example, culturally, South Korea may not have adopted CBT on the same large scale that the United States has, or perhaps psychiatric medications are not used to the same degree, which would explain the absence of anyone with a dual MD-PhD degree in the manhwa. Perhaps older approaches to psychology are still widely taught and used in South Korea (even the United States has several active journals devoted to psychodynamic theory). But that's just conjecture; maybe someone who lives in or has lived in South Korea could tell me whether these statements are accurate or not.
Alternately, I was thinking that the absence of other approaches might be an artistic decision on the part of the creator. I was racking my brain to come up with a way to work a CBT approach into a story, but I can't think of a way to make CBT exciting.
What do you all think? Does Dr. Frost give an accurate depiction of psychology to you? Is it faithful to how psychology is practiced in modern Korea? Or is there a great deal of artistic license taken, instead?