집단미술치료가 성인의 자기개방과 인간관계 형성에 미치는 영향

A Study on the Effects of the Group Art Therapy on Self-Development of an Adult and on the Formation of Human Relations

A human being is a spiritual animal simultaneously with being a physical animal. Therefore, the ultimate goal of life that we proceed with living, can be the pursuit of happiness. What is called happiness has various conditions, but even among them, the formation of human relations through a person-to-person meeting, is shown to possess an important position in the condition of happiness. The art-therapy counselling helps people, who are making a closed living because of being difficult for verbal expression or because of mental symptoms, with a method of developing the self through a symbol of art works, thus it is the counselling-therapy material that makes it possible to manage the happily individual life through mental and psychological recognition. Among these art-therapy methods, the group art therapy is the group counselling that makes it possible to positively collect and analyze information, to recognize and solve problems of self, and to have a meaning and value in an individual life, by accepting to understand other person s emotion and frankly expressing self s emotion. A meeting being attained amid the attitude of honesty and love, will add happiness to the individual life. The purpose of this study was to examine whether these people can meet the self, a family, others, and society with the original looks, escaping from mental desire and attachment through the group art therapy.