A Novice Art-Therapist Searching for Self-Identity

• Main Authors: Lin, Hsu-Ju, 林栩如
• Other Authors: Lin, Jen-Jen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39253593258459128482

碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 藝術治療碩士學位學程 === 103 === This self-narrative research, serves as an exploration, for me as a novice art therapist, about how to think, how to feel, to reflect on personal capability, professional performance, and competence in the academic learning process. Caught in the predicament of bewilderment, inferiority complex, and self-doubt, I am swayed between self-confidence and self-despair. Through recurrence of subjective experience, picture creation, and self-dialogue, I become near to my personal experience. In the self-narrative process, the followings come to light: in the experience of “ say / express”, as a self-narrative agent, “self” become aware of its own “ dare not” and “overly care about others’ opinion”, which has a great influence on not merely self-identity and subjective experience but also professional self. Throughout the self-narrative process, certain subtle hidden existent experience is unveiled and to some level transforms itself to part of true consciousness. Hence, as the subjective experience horizon is broadened, so does the subjective experience flow and the possibility of reinterpretation. Eventually, at the end of self-narration, “Self” realizes the necessity to come to terms with the inevitably recurrent confusion and questioning in the pursuit of self-identification. Upon allowing “self” and liberating “self”, “Self” recognizes its own highlight and perseverance, which “Self” nurtures itself to create true self-belief and self-confidence. And only in so doing can we grasp and give credit for the client, who absolutely has the same ability to deal with himself.