정신공학으로서의 명상과 질적건강연구 = Meditation as a Psychotechnology and Qualitative Health Research

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In these days we see the emerging the issues and problems that is related to the traditional approach to the health based on the dualism of the body and mind since the concept of Descartes. And we interest in the body and mind monism. There are various tools as a psychotechnology to achieve the body and mind monism. One of them that has been used for other several thousand years in the East, and still some are beginning to be used in the West is the meditation. The meditation maximizes the peace, etemal peace. And therefore, it enables the people to reach their real self.
The researcher of the meditation, want to know about how the psychological and the physical changes are experienced and what are the processes experienced. Even though mainIy the quantitative research method has been used on the researches on meditation and the report has been that meditation enhances and facilitates the health control and health management and self healing.
Whereas, qualitative research method hasn’t been used on the researches on meditation, even though it enables us to understand a new and sensitive area that are partly known to us. If it is accumuIated, we can have a better understanding of self discovery and the significance of the experience. And it enables a possibility to development of the theory in korean meditation, too.
Of course the qualitative and quantitative methods are contributory to the health research because they are complementary to each other, although the approaches are quite different. Utilizing both methodology can conπibute to the further understanding of the issues that of our interests, the qualitative and quantitative methods are both strong tools.
For the health oriented psychological researches, especially in the area of social science, what kind of research method이ogy and research approaches will be selected depends 때on the research needs, research problemof the researcher.
There has been many justifiable criticisms against the traditional quiuantitative research method the qualitative research method that appears according to a paradigm shift in methodology, to human understanding, and to development of theory. It has a possibility to beyond the lirnitation of the concept of the science that leads the quantitative research.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 서론
• 1. 건강과 심리적 안녕
• 2. 치유률 활성화시키는 정신공학으로서의 명상
• 3. 명상의 과정과수준
• 1) 尋牛圖
• 2) 선원(禪圓)
• 4. 패러다임 변화가 이끈 질적연구
• 5. 질적 연구의 특성
• 결론