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A Review of Pastoral Counseling for Hwa-byung -Focused on Psychiatric Exploring-

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2015, 23(1), pp.11-45
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2015.23.1.11
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : April 12, 2015
  • Accepted : May 12, 2015

Sunghwan Kim 1

1광신대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This article aims to seek some pastoral strategic healing directions for Hwa-byung, an internationally recognized term as a culture bound syndrome related to anger, by exploring its psychiatric and clinical characteristics, in a view of pastoral counseling. We can clarify the clinical identity of Hwa-byung clearer through comparison of similar psychiatric illnesses, IED(Intermittent Explosive Disorder) and PTED(Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder). Korean family structure, social, economic, personal and cultural factors related to the causes of Hwa-byung. Han, which is described as a unique and universal indigenous form of lamentation, is an another important cause of Hwa-byung. Han and Hwa-byung seem to be on the same extend line as the active volcano and the dormant volcano are. The psychiatric healing approaches for Christian Hwa-byung patients tend to result in a poorer clinical prognosis. The pastoral counselor should be devoted in the empathetic listening process towards Christian Hwa-byung patients' life narratives relaying on the work of Holy Spirit. The pastoral counselor should encourage them to experience God's companionate-forgiving love of the cross. Enlarging their the capacity of biblical self-love and compassionate love towards perpetrators may be adopted as healing strategies of pastoral counseling for them. The wholistic reconciliation between Christian Hwa-byung patients and God could be considered as an another core healing factor.

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