Sigmund Freud, the father modern psychology, was concerned with psychology and saw it as an opportunity to help Josef Breuer, who was Freud's colleague, and offered him a psychological cure. Anna 0, who was treated by Dr. Breuer suffered from many types of illness: headaches, coughs and paralysis her right arm. Surprisingly, however, as her psychologist let her talk about her emotional problems in the past, her symptoms disappeared. Freud established a systematic treatment, psychoanalysis, by applying this ti other patients. 

    Psychology has a powerful effect and influence on an individual. As society changes and with the spread of individualism, modern people go through a lot of mental pressure and pain. Therefore psychotherapy and counseling can be a great solution. According to the National Health insurance Corporation, the number of patients who have stress disorders is increasing at an average of 15.3%. The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service shows that the number of patients who have depression increased about 4.0% each year from 2005 to 2009. As mental illness problems get worse, contemporary people think mental well-being and peace of mind are important. Therefore people's recognition towards psychology and counseling are changing a lot and plenty of public institutions offer psychotherapy.
    In CNU, a mental counseling center is being operated to promote students' mental health. To get counseling and a psychological test, I visited this center.  
   If you want counseling or to take a psychological test, you should apply on the internet in advance. You just visit www.cnutovu.com(Development of Human Resources institution) and become a member. You must apply for it and arrange a date and time that is convenient for you. Psychotherapy and counseling are available every Thursday at 10 A.M,. 2 P.M., and 4P.M.  
   Two types of services are available. One is the counseling program that can resolve a conflict and solve problems. The other is psychological testing that helps you understand your personality and aptitude. The counseling program is divided into personal counseling and job counseling. The psychological testing hay four types of programs. First of all, the MMPI judges whether he/she adapts to surroundings emotionally and leads a healthy life or not. It can find maladjustment and mental disorder and helps prevent a negative result. MBTI finds your intrinsic preferences used in recognition and decision-making and it broadens under-standing of personality, personal relations and mapping out a career path. An aptitude test measures course interest and helps decide your career direction. The last thing is a self-concept test. It is a kind of inspection about how you feel, think, accept and evaluate yourself during interpersonal relations and in diverse environments. Through the test, you can learn about your mode of behavior, view of body, ethical system, self-evaluation of personality and community relations.
    If you visit the mental counseling center at the scheduled time after finishing an application on the internet, you can take a test and have counseling immediately. Our university's mental counseling center is located inside the Development of Human Resources Institution on the second floor of Student Hall 2. In case you take the test, there is an important thing you need to be aware of. If a student who has an examination does not concentrate on his/her test or answer faithfully, the outcome may be incorrect and strange. Therefore a sincere attitude and concentration are required in the rest. While I was taking a psychological rest, I met a student who was also getting a test. That student was Jung Min-ki who is majoring in Chemistry. He enrolled in the counseling program first and then he also took the psychological test by recommendation. 
    About one week later after the end of the rest, I listened to an explanation of the examination's results in the mental counseling center. In the case of the psychological test, you have to revisit the center about one week later. I could check various psychological investigation results and my aptitude. In the MBTI test, I could find out my character type from a four type Preference index. Sixteen types: extrovert or introvert, sensuous or eidetic, rational or emotional, judgmental or cognitional make you figure out yourself. In the aptitude test, you can find your interests, favorites and things that you are good at. You can seek a group of professions that suits you according to six codes. When psychological testing or counseling results are had, a student is informed about that outcome and advised to cake psychotherapy or mental counseling. 

By Ahn Na-ri CP Reporter
ahn-nah@cnu.ac.kr