말기 암 환자의 미술치료 체험연구 = A Study on Experience of Art Therapy for Terminally Ill Patients with Cancer

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Purpose : This study is to understand the meaning and the essence of terminally ill patients with cancer’s experiences from art therapy. 4 patients with terminally ill cancer who had been hospitalized at the Hospice ward of S general hospital in An-yang city，Gyeunggi-do participated in art therapy. By applying the research method of Max Van Manen，which is one of quality research methods of hermeneutic phenomenology，this study was processed according to the 4 orders of ‘turning to the nature of lived experience’，‘existential research’，‘hermeneutic phenomenological reflection’，‘hermeneutic phenomenological writing’. On the stage ‘turning to the nature of lived experience'，the phenomenological questions are made as following; ‘Which experiences do the patients have from art therapy and what are their meanings to them?’ On the stage of ’existential research’，8 sessions were held twice a week from July to August 2006 for the 4 patients. To collect data，all art works were taken by photographs and all interviews were recorded. The contents of interviews recorded were written down exactly what they said，analyzed，and so used as main data of this study. On the stage of 'hermeneutic phenomenological reflection’，with the results of analysis on the participants interviews，4 common main subjects were revealed as followings; <The expression of complex emotions after the diagnosis of terminal cancer>，<The moments of expressing their own hearts on their families>，<The reluctant experiences of art therapy>，and <The opportunity to express death>. On the stage of ‘hermeneutic phenomenological writing'，writing on the experience of the art therapy was done based on their art works.
Based on the main subjects and their subordinate subjects of this study，the following conclusions could be made for the meaning and the essence of it.
First，art therapy gives patients opportunities to express their own complex emotions after the diagnosis of terminal cancer. Patients reveal inner conflicts which have been suppressed and so experience emotional relaxations. Second，patients have moments of expressing their own hearts on their families and remind the meaning of family. Third，because art activities for patients are autonomous processes，they feel sense of achievement and self-confidence. Forth，during art therapy patients tell their own deaths and so can prepare them.