이야기치료를 통한 자아통합: 여성 노인 구술생애사 사례를 중심으로 = Ego Integrity through Narrative Therapy: A Study of the Oral Life History of Elderly Women

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In the context of Korean society that has entered a super-aged society, this study based on narrative therapy aims to analyze in-depth the process of elderly women’s narrative reconstruction of their lives, and their attainment of ego integrity through oral life history. Old age can be understood as an ontological transition in which individuals must reflect on their life-long experiences and reconstruct the meaning of their entire lives while reducing social roles and external activities. However, many elderly women have lived through restrictions on educational opportunities, early labor, dedicated care roles, and suppression of emotional expression amid historical and socio-cultural constraints, and these life conditions often lead to identity confusion and difficulty in ego-integration in old age.
Based on this awareness of the problem, this study designed and applied an ego integrity program to five elderly women that combines a narrative therapy through oral life history, and AI-assisted visualization. Throughout eight one-on-one interviews with participants I helped them to tell some strong memories in each period of their lives, and to visualize memories and emotions that are difficult to verbalize with AI-produced pictures to expand the depth of recollection and emotional accessibility. In this process, AI pictures were used beyond simple aids and functioned as a medium to convert nonverbal memories into narratives, promoting the re-authoring process of narrative therapy.
As a result of this program, the participants could recognize their lives as a continuous narrative rather than a set of disconnected events. Through the process of oral statements, repetitive restatements, and recollection by visual mediation, they showed a change in the evaluation of their lives, reinterpreting the loss and pain of the past from a social and historical context rather than ego criticism. In addition, the publishing and sharing processes of their stories expected the possibility for community integration by attaining mutual recognition and empathy beyond personal healing.
I argue that this thesis has academic significance in that it expands the study of narrative therapy and oral life history from the perspective of humanities healing and presents a new narrative healing model that supports ego integrity in old age by integrating an AI-assisted visualization technique. Furthermore, it can contribute to re-examining the value and identity of the elderly women in a super-aged society through the practice of converting their life histories into public narratives rather than private memories.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• I. 서론 1
• 1. 연구의 필요성 1
• 2. 연구의 목적 6
• 3. 선행연구 고찰 9
• II. 이론적 배경 16
• 1. 노인의 삶과 이야기 16
• 2. 이야기치료 19
• 3. 이야기치료와 구술생애사 쓰기 24
• 4. 자아통합 27
• III. 프로그램 방법과 설계 30
• 1. 프로그램 방법 30
• 2. 프로그램 설계과정 32
• 3. 프로그램 참여자 정보 34
• 4. 프로그램 진행 절차 36
• IV. 연구결과 분석 38
• 1. 참여자 A 40
• 2. 참여자 B 45
• 3. 참여자 C 52
• 4. 참여자 D 56
• 5. 참여자 E 59
• 6. 참여자의 이야기: 재서사 66
• V. 결론 73
• 참고문헌 76
• 영문초록 80
• 부록 82