| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 生死與健康心理諮商研究所 === 107 === This thesis is a qualitative analysis using “self-narrative” methodology. The subject of this self-narrative is the researcher’s own experience of trauma and loss of identity caused by mid-life infertility and miscarriage. By telling her story of infertility, treatment, pregnancy and miscarriage she begins to understand the loss and grief created by her infertility. She also explores how this loss began her own process of individuation.
Through self-narration and self-reflection, she revisits her early life experiences and examines her patterns of emotional avoidance and suppression. Thus, she begins to accept her own fragility and reconciles with her emotional past. Through her experience of grief and loneliness, she learns to recognize her own needs and embrace her emotions, makes peace with her infertility and discovers how to be compassionate to herself and to others.
Applying a Jungian-esque interpretation of her own dreams and guided by Jung’s theory of individuation, she discovers how to begin to balance her unconscious masculine (animus) and unconscious feminine (anima). Thus, she allows her rational mind and emotions to function together, and begins to embrace her own vulnerability and strength.
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