전통적 위기상담으로서 오구굿 - 죽음에 대한 한국적 위기목회상담의 과제 -

Abstract

Traditionally, in Korea, Shamanism played a key role in ministering those who had lost their loved ones. Therefore it is necessary to analyze Korean Shamanism in order to understand and enlighten the crisis pastoral counseling in the Korean Protestantism. Therefore, the Oku-goot in the youngnam is analyzed in this paper in order to find out what is needed in the crisis pastoral counseling with tragic loss of their family members. Therapeutic mechanism found in the Oku-goot includes empathetic understanding, reframing, catharsis, communal sharing, and reconciliation. In the empathetic understanding, no tragic death is excluded. In the reframing, survivors understand the death and its after-world. In the catharsis, intense anxiety is provoked and relieved dramatically and repeatedly. And repressed emotions are expressed indirectly by the shamans. In the communal sharing, the survivors share their tragic loss with the participants. In the reconciliation, the survivors recover the normal relationships with the lost one and thereafter separate themselves from the dead functionally. There are challenges to the Korean crisis pastoral counseling based on the analysis of the Oku-goot. Four challenges are proposed. First, it is necessary to include all kinds of loss. No tragic death such as suicide cannot be excluded. Second, it is necessary to reduce intense anxiety and expand the term of counseling. Social networking to support the survivors is needed. Third, it is necessary to express themselves directly in public. Last, it is necessary to include children and adolescents in the crisis pastoral counseling. They are encouraged to express themselves directly. And they need to understand their immunity to the tragic loss.