Kohut의 자기심리학을 적용한 미술치료사례연구

Abstract

This is an art therapeutic case study, using Kohut's self psychology, as to a 9 year old boy who pays less attention, lacks self-esteem, and cannot make his school life smooth or integrated. Kohut's self psychology emphasizes most the relationship between the client and the therapist, in a way that the client will be frustrated and resentful if he can't find his selfobject need in the therapist, while the therapy on the client will be effective and successful if the client's self-object need is fulfilled. Accordingly, the purpose of the therapy is to help the client to fulfill his own selfobject need, so as to make the client's self-structure anew. With the therapist's empathy or attuned responsiveness during total 21 therapeutic sessions, the client has been able to establish or structure his own cohesive self to show the following results. First, the self psychological art therapy through the therapist's empathy and the client's art work helped the client fulfill selfobject need and improve self esteem. Second, art work has enabled the client to experience psychological wounds inside himself correctively and emotionally, which in turn has helped him establish his self-structure anew and alleviate tension. The comparison between the pre-test and the post-test of K-CBCL indicates that there has been a significant change in the client's depression/anxiety, social immaturity, and attention to concentrate. Thus, it can be claimed that art therapy with Kohut's self psychology turns out to be an effective therapeutic method to provide the client with empathy and improve self esteem.