시치료의 가능성 탐색을 위한 시론

Abstract

A Study on the Poetry Therapy Shin, Ju-Cheol A poem therapy is a way of giving chances of self-examination to those who suffer from anxieties and mental anguish by making them read and write poetry. The principle of the therapy is aimed to strengthen the ego and then gradually to confer a natural immunity to it. They get to throw an image on the depths concretely decoding the image of the meaning system through reading and through writing to study the inside closely. After the series of these processes, people who are prepsychotic can dissolve the etiological cause to a good degree, and even one who doesn't have any particular mental disease are expected to be able to reinforce his own flexible and dynamic spirit that could stand against anxiety and anguish in everyday life. To apply poetry to practical treatment, several premises such as follows are required. First, we need to clearly recognize the underlying principle of the therapy and the category of the subject that the therapy is going to work on. Second, choosing the piece of work should be proper and has to be done after figuring out how the linguistic and cognitive abilities of the subjects are because in case it is too much, it could get usual readers and clients rather frustrated. Third, different subjects and situations need to be subdivided, and the pieces that fit the conditions should be classified according to them. Finally, the therapist has to show diverse analyzes to avoid immediate and clear analyzes as the clearness only activates the defense mechanism of the subject.