A Study of Narratives of Breakup Experiences in the Grief Healing Garden as a Metaphor

• Main Authors: Lu,Jingyi, 呂靜宜
• Other Authors: Lin, Chiyun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47596561393706406587

碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 生死教育與輔導研究所 === 101 === In this study, persons who had experienced a breakup participated in the metaphor activities, using the constructs of the grief healing garden to narrate the metaphor of their breakup experience, to understand how the connotation of the metaphor was used to interpret the breakup experience or significance of the life story, and to convey the inner feelings. Narrative inquiry was adopted as the research method, and male and female participants between the ages of 18 and 35 who had experienced the end of a love relationship were selected. The data collected included metaphor activities of interview records, contents of metaphor activities and dialogue verbatim, observation records of activities in the first half of the structure of metaphor activities, and interview records and researcher logs in the second half. Crossley’s (2000) analytical blueprint was used to start from the “whole.” Information analysis was conducted, and the findings were written. Multiple validation, participants’ verification, and peer checking were done to ensure faithfulness of the research. Based on the metaphorical breakup experience of the participants and the researcher’s analysis, the researcher presented three metaphorical stories, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” “The Return Journey of a Small Seed to Its Root,” and “Multi-Colored Bird’s Return to the Crow’s Nest.” In addition, the types of metaphors formed by the participants from the garden field material can be divided into four categories: natural materials, facilities or scenes, interaction or action of people with the garden, as well as other non-garden situation metaphors. The metaphor features co-constructed by the breakup experience and grief healing garden include the sensory stimulation of the grief healing garden, the figurative connotation of the metaphor, and the deepening of the experience through reproduction. The flowing spring waterway links the overall lost journey of a breakup. Accompanying the pattern of “The Lost Bubble,” the reactions of loss and grief and the way of response were echoed. Participants created the “action” ceremony, to characterize the individual’s unique significance. The time in the grief healing garden brings security and trust and links to the story of loss. The influences that the metaphor may bring up include being an open receiver of sensory signals, to repeat the experience; becoming the director of the story as well as the audience watching the story unfold; metaphor retention; and fermentation and extension of new perspectives.