저널치료 : 새로운 일기쓰기 (journal Therapy: new method of writing a journal)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국국어교육학회
· 수록지 정보 : 새국어교육 / 77호 / 235 ~ 264페이지
· 저자명 : 이봉희

초록

독자나 평가자를 염두에 둔 ‘좋은 글’을 쓰는 것과 별도로 저널(일기)처럼 감정을 자유롭게 표현하는 감정표현 글쓰기의 중요성은 그것이 정서적, 정신적 문제를 치료해주는 효과가 있기 때문이다. 국어교육의 문외한인 필자의 본 논문은 상한 감정의 치유와 문제해결, 자아성찰을 위한 자신만의 사적인 글쓰기인 저널(journal)이란 무엇인가를 알리고 그 치료적 효능과 글쓰기기법을 몇 가지 구체적 사례들과 함께 소개함으로써 저널이 한국의 글쓰기교육과 인성교육에 미력하나마 하나의 도전이 되고자 하는데 주목적이 있다.

영어초록

Writing education in the task-oriented country like Korea is mainly focused on how to write “good and well organized” paragraphs with no awkward or unclear expressions. However, the focus of this paper is on the importance of expressive writing, especially on the journal as a new challenge to writing education because of its therapeutic effect. It is high time that we accepted this challenge for holistic general education to our younger generation when the violence in elementary and high schools, suicidal tendencies, depression are more and more widely spread among young students. The therapeutic effect of expressive emotions writing is proven by The Freedom Writers Diary(1999), a real story of a high school teacher, who has changed her students' lives through their journals.
Journal Therapy is the act of writing down thoughts and feelings to sort through problems and come to deeper understandings of oneself or the issues in one's life. Unlike traditional diary writing, where daily events and happenings are recorded from an exterior point of view, journal therapy focuses on the writer's internal experiences, reactions, and perceptions. Through this act writing and literally “reading” of his or her own mind, the journal writer can perceive experiences more clearly and thus feels a relief from tension. Moreover, there is scientific evidence that the relief that comes from writing things down is more than just psychological. Dr. Pennebaker's studies indicate that the release offered by writing has a direct impact on the body's capacity to withstand stress and fight off infection and disease.
This paper surveys the development and the benefits of journal therapy. It also summarizes suggestions for satisfying journal writing and K. Adams' “journal tools”(writing techniques) offered as a way to match a specific life issue with a specific writing device. It finally chooses one of the journal techniques, [The Unsent Letter] as a specific example to heal the relationship problem with testimonies of the therapeutic process in some of the members of the writer's Journal/Poetry Therapy Group and in the Literature class.

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