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KMID : 0607419970020010068
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Mental Health Services
1997 Volume.2 No. 1 p.68 ~ p.77
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Meanings of Life of Mothers with a Schizophrenic Child: An Interpretive Approach
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Jung Min
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Abstract
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The purpose of this paper was to understand the caring experiences of mothers who are taking care of a schizophrenic child, and to interpret their meanings of life reconstructed in the course of their caring experiences.
The methodology of this paper follows the interpretive approach based on Heidegger’s philosophical viewpoint of the world. It enables a researcher to seek out, from the mothers’ stories, their meanings of life in the structure of their personal history and cultural background. The understanding of their experiences is based on their sociocultural context, i.e., their positions in society, womanhood in Korean culture, and the mental health care delivery system.
The mothers’ caring experiences have played an important part in their life. The meanings of their life, however, lay between the possibility of creating a new life and a life as a burden. Their caring experiences sometimes created disturbances in their own life, or gave a new perspective to life, according to the following backgrounds: how free the mothers feel from the ideology of "super mother"; how they perceived their past life before their children became ill; and whether they thought of the caring as a burden or as a new challenge in their life.
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KEYWORD
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Mother wish a Schizophrenic Child, Caring Experience, Meanings of Life
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