보웬의 가족치료에 근거한 자아분화의 시도를 통한 불안극복에 대한 목회상담적 연구

Abstract

Modern Family Therapy regards a client’s problem not only individually but also from the perspective of a family-based system. Systemically, a client’s problems arise from interactions among family members. Murray Bowen explains that anxieties of a generation of a family descend in the process of negatively emotional fusions, such as triangles. He also said that a person who is entangled with negatively emotional fusions, is likely to have a lack of individuation in the family system; on the contrary, an adequately individuated person lives by his own decisions, free from negative emotional fusions. Ronald Richardson explains that a person who failed in experiencing healthy individuation, has a tendency to make others supply comfort for himself to overcome anxieties in church, that but its effect perishes soon. So he emphasizes that pastors need to help people to achieve a higher level of healthy individuation so they can cope with various struggles in community. Donald Capps insists that it’s psychologically possible to overcome when a person ultimately experiences the presence of God. He also says that even when pastoral counselors experience emotional fusions with underindividuated clients, if they keep stably supportive attitudes, in spite of anxious psychic states, clients can get stability to endure anxieties, step by step. In that process, pastoral counselors can help clients experience the presence of God.