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KMID : 1159120130200020243
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Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Psychology
2013 Volume.20 No. 2 p.243 ~ p.271
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A Case Study on the Art Therapy to Alleviate Paranoia, Anxiety, and Somatization for an Elder Woman with Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Chun Soon-Young
Kim Ji-Yeoun
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Abstract
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This study was aimed to investigate how art therapy affect paranoia, anxiety, and somatization for a paranoid elder woman with personality disorder. An elder woman in the late 60’s was applied for art therapy whose total sessions of 22 have been implemented twice a week in one hour per each during 4 months ranged from March 2011 to July. The results are as follows: Firstly, the participant in the after test of MMPI for changed paranoid symptom showed a sharp declining in its test scores. Through the test of FSA, the psychological damage of the participant were significantly reduced. Secondly, the art therapy approach to the participant to reduce her anxiety made her somewhat less anxious. By the before and after tests of LMT her anxiety and obsessive attitude were also declined. Thirdly, the point of the before test of the somatization indicated the up and down tendency in the autonomic nerves and the circulatory organs including several other organs, whereas that of its after test went down somewhat overall. Hence it can be concluded that this art therapy for a paranoid elder woman was effective to ease her paranoia, anxiety and somatization.
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KEYWORD
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paranoia, anxiety, somatization, art therapy
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