Halting, Fading, Brewing and Finally Acting – A Story of A Social Worker Struggling in the System of Psychiatry

• Main Authors: Ching-i Lee, 李靜怡
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pme796

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 社會工作學系 === 100 === In fall ’07, I came back to Department of Social Work at Soocihow University to pursue my master degree. I began to study the system I was hardly working in and also people within it. Meanwhile, I started to write the experience and thinking down in my thesis. During the curriculum of program of master degree, and the practice in Medical Center and in Cih Fang Easy Clubhouse, I feel the professional boundary and professional roles of mine had been stricken continuously and even collapsed. Such a grate contradiction and introspection force me meet another me, who had pursued the professional identity but finally lost in the jungle of medical system during the time when I just graduated from university and entered a midst general hospital and then a northern specialist hospital for psychiatry. In summer ’09, I came to a chronic mental institution in eastern Taiwan. Here I keep a low profile and observe around at first, trying to find a chance to do something different to make things better. Finally, I seem to create some good interaction in the field. Unfortunately, I also realize the utilitarianism in the operation of a system is too stiff to be changed. With rising of fear that I will adapt this kind of system gradually and finally accept it, I learn the capability to see the requirement and opportunity for psychotic in a community, just like seeking the light of future in such dark reality. I believe the direction will be in the balance between my merchant family and my believing to the human value.