The purpose of this study is to improve interpersonal relationship by using the structural hermeneutics and the hermeneutics of attestation in counseling. In the structural hermeneutics, people say and behave by inside consciousness structure. Therefo...
The purpose of this study is to improve interpersonal relationship by using the structural hermeneutics and the hermeneutics of attestation in counseling. In the structural hermeneutics, people say and behave by inside consciousness structure. Therefore, clients understand their speeches and behaviors by interpreting the subjective structure in their subjective statements into the objective structure. The hermeneutics of attestation provides philosophical interpretation concepts to reconstruct the self in understanding others and relationships. In this study, researchers applied the structural hermeneutics and the hermeneutics of attestation into the counseling, which was a case of a 32-year-old single woman who closed herself off from friends by faking her cancer. Questions were made from the baseline data about early stages of the counseling, and structural hypotheses were set to get answers by interpreting meanings on the base line data. The data from the succeeding sessions were also restructured by the falsifiability principle in consecutive orders. When the client understand the meaning of her speeches and behaviors through the suggested process, the counselor helped the client to restructure understandings about others and self concepts in the interpersonal relationship by applying the hermeneutics of attestation. As results, the client coped actively with the interpersonal relationship and recovered her friendship.