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Accepted Paper:

Exploring self-healing process through expressive art work in children with brain tumor: An ethnography method  
Pei-Fan Mu (National Yang-Ming University)

Paper short abstract:

The purpose of this study was using ethnography method to explore the mechanism of self healing process throughout the expressive art work. Six school-age children with malignant brain tumor were participated into this study. Throughout the motor intentionality process, children transfer self into object, they aware and understand their own feeling, as well as continuously explore their new self. The essence of self is the fundamental base of self healing. During the expressive art work, motor intentionality lead children to aware their internal experience toward integrating their self healing. By participant observation and pathography, the data were collected. The interpretive ethnography analysis method was used to explore the self-healing process. As a result of the research, four phases emerged: activate self awareness of illness, find a self healing direction in chaos, knowing self body and notice Being, and actualization of Being. This finding explores a self-healing process by using expressive art work, as well as provides an example by using ethnography method to explore a art healing process.

Paper long abstract:

The purpose of this study was using ethnography method to explore the mechanism of self healing process throughout the expressive art work. Six school-age children with malignant brain tumor were participated into this study. Throughout the motor intentionality process, children transfer self into object, they aware and understand their own feeling, as well as continuously explore their new self. The essence of self is the fundamental base of self healing. During the expressive art work, motor intentionality lead children to aware their internal experience toward integrating their self healing. By participant observation and pathography, the data were collected. The interpretive ethnography analysis method was used to explore the self-healing process. As a result of the research, four phases emerged: activate self awareness of illness, find a self healing direction in chaos, knowing self body and notice Being, and actualization of Being. This finding explores a self-healing process by using expressive art work, as well as provides an example by using ethnography method to explore a art healing process.

Panel P31
Healing arts? The arts and aesthetics of medical display
  Session 1