• 대한지리학회지
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.546-562
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 그동안 국내 지리학에서 상대적으로 소홀히 다루었던 치유(healing)에 관한 지리적 접근을 검토하고, 심리상담카페의 운영자의 시선을 통해 일상적 삶에서의 치유의 공간의 의미에 대해 생각해 보고자 한다. 본 연구의 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 눈에 드러난 정신과, 심리상담센터 등과 같은 곳은 일종의 문화적 낙인(cultural stigma)의 공간으로 인식되지만, 심리상담카페의 경우에는 이와 같은 심리적 거부감 내지 거리감을 낮춤으로서 치유가 필요한 사람들이 쉽게 접근할 수 있는 곳으로 통하고 있다. 둘째, 현대인들에게 요구되는 치유란 짧은 시간이나마 현실에서 도피할 수 있는 것이라 볼 수 있는데, 이러한 점에 있어서 인스턴트식으로, 기대하지 않았던 공간에서의 치유 활동은 심리상담카페의 이용자들에게 특별한 경험으로 다가오며, 부담스럽지 않은 선에서 반복적이며, 지속적인 치유 경험이 가능한 곳이 된다. 셋째, 심리상담카페는 누구나 이용할 수 있는 열린 공간인 카페로 재탄생함으로서 우리의 일상적 삶에 더 깊숙이 침투할 수 있는 장점을 가진 공간으로 활용되고 있다.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.31-49
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• 2008

This study has been performed to explore verbal and behavioral expression of sexual desires among male elderly residents who have been living in long tenn care facilities. There are three topics covered in this study; first, in what situations and how seriously do care workers encounter expression of sexual desires of the elderly residents? Second, what kind of negative consequences do they believe those sexual behaviors will lead to? Third, how can we implement defensive measures against the sexual behaviors? In this study, twenty three care workers working full time in five retirement and care facilities were asked about their experience and perception of the above study agendas, and answers of the qualitative interview were drawn as follow; first, the elderly residents apparently show a variety of sexual harassment and provoking behaviors such as sticking to specific women, physically touching and attacking, and induce obscenely activities against female residents, care workers, and volunteer visitors. Second, their sexual behaviors are often influenced by their isolated and abandoned emotionality as well as living situation in rural areas. Third, their sexual behaviors often critically affect care work plan and facility managements by severely discouraging female care givers and community supporters. Therefore in this study, suggestions and defensive measures were made as follows: first, education and counselling programs toward female workers and volunteers need to be developed, and the programs should cover psychological and behavioral mechanism of sexuality in later life. Second, self control plans need to be empowered toward the elderly residents; in the plans, the elderly residents shall be encouraged to evaluate primary cause and proper solutions of sexual behaviors of their peering residents. Third, combination of healthy housing and care facilities for frail elderly need to be integrated in a neighboring location, so that when residents and workers encounter extreme episodes of sexuality of healthy residents in a housing facility, the problematic sexual residents are partially transferred into a neighboring care facility and thereafter other residents and cafe givers are relieved from stressful contacts with the extremely sexual residents.