{"id":3063,"date":"2015-06-01T22:37:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2015-06-01T22:37:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T14:37:39","slug":"from-drowned-to-agency-social-practice-of-a-counseling-practitioner-on-a-self-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=3063","title":{"rendered":"From Drowned to Agency: Social-practice of a Counseling Practitioner on a Self-narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ming-Yu Deng<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Nursing\u00a0Jen-Teh Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management<\/p>\n

This story is about \u201cI\u201d. About a male who devotes himself to be a counseling practitioner, experienced the abruption of profession and life, and searching for a way out by facing his real self. This research is a self-study. The aim of this research focuses on how the loss of life image could be retrieved through self-narrative and self-understanding. From the incapacity of life and study to the agency of future, the dual-identity of life and of profession could be affirmed. The morphogenesis and diversity of self-development are emphasized in this study. By the way of self-narrative and self-understanding, narrative thinking is used to achieve hermeneutic explanation. In order to represent and re-examine one\u2019s life experiences, the individual\u2019s life history and social culture are two important contexts of focus. Trough narrative understanding, theinspiration of the researcher suggests that long-term emotional confusion or life break-up experienced by an individual should not be considered as some kind of medical disorder, but instead, should be understood as the alienation of individual life from social situation. This kind of experience is the existential anxiety. Only when we return to the original status of life being and begin to understand it through a narrative perspective, those fragmental experiences (such as strange dreams, conflictive complex, fragmented life events) which are laid among the stream of social-economic contexts (such as the labour family in Taiwan\u2019s OEM economics) and of individual life development (such as being a man, being the only male offspring) can call for its sparkling meaning. Those stones that were originally thought to impede life could reflect their existential meaning when they are placed in the narrative river of life. Through this self-narrative study, the researcher also discovers that sensational knowledge can have the power of disclosing subjectivity. When the abruption of life appears, our emotions would embody the existential meaning of life and indicate the Dasein of the human. For a professional\u00a0counseling practitioner, self-narrative is a way to social practice. Through the contextual understanding of life history and of social situation, we don\u2019t have to locate ourselves behind the professional mask in the practice field. Instead, with a critical conscious, we can introduce the possibility of proposal (dialogic) conversation. If we have the indwelling understanding from participating, inter-subjectivity of praxis-oriented pedagogy will be fulfilled.<\/p>\n

Keyword: self-narrative, life history, labour family, men\u2019s studies, mental health, social practice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ming-Yu Deng Department of Nursing\u00a0Jen-Teh Junior Colle …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-114"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t