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KMID : 1161820170010020031
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Journal of Natural Healing
2017 Volume.1 No. 2 p.31 ~ p.39
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Meditation counseling for a North Korean refugee’s longing for her husband and obsession for financial security
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Kim Kwang-Ho
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Abstract
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This study uses narrative study to examine how a North Korean refugee experienced her longing for her husband and obsession for financial security, the contextual information necessary to understand her pains, and how her pains evolved throughout her meditation counseling sessions. When the research participant’s husband, who worked as an army doctor, was discharged, the family was relocated to an inn room and their ration cut. Following much deliberation, she decided to defect for their children’s sake, but her husband was reluctant out of fear, and she ultimately parted from her husband and left with her children. After being caught twice and suffering extreme hardship in prison, she developed an obsession with money. During meditation counseling, she confronted via Reflected Image Meditation (RIM) the pain she had experienced when she parted from her husband and her trauma developed inside the prison, and she has since recovered from both her longing and obsession. The significance of this study is that in the absence of much qualitative research based on in-depth counseling done on North Korean refugee women, this research examines through eight sessions of in-depth counseling a North Korean refugee woman’s experiences. In addition, it applies a key strategy in meditation counseling, RIM, to a North Korean refugee woman’s longing for her husband and obsession for financial security?both fields of which RIM has not been previously applied to?to demonstrate RIM’s effectiveness. Finally, its method of narrative study confirms the healing effects of narratives.
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KEYWORD
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North Korean refugee, Narrative Study, Meditation, Counseling, Reflected Image Meditation(RIM)
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