THE PROCESS OF PLAYTHERAPY OF A CHILD WITH ELECTIVE MUTISM

선택적 함구증을 보인 6세아동의 놀이치료

The study presented the experience of playtherapy of a 6-yr old girl with elective mutism and attempted to understand her psychopathology and formulated her psychodynamic which was expressed though the therapeutic process of playtherapy in the viewpoint of developmental model. Therapist's attitude was nondirective and supportive. Main theme of her play, fantasy and art was separation anxiety and abandonment fear as the result of continued psychic traumas such as separation from her grandmother and physical abuse by her father and mother etc. So she couldn't achieve developmental tasks such as autonomy and separation individuation and became generally inhibited and selectively mute. The process of play therapy was summarized and coceptualized as her successful progress through sequential developmental phases within the therapeutic relation ship. By reexperiencing this developmental process, she could accomplish her autonomy and separation individuation and developed to oedipal stage and successfully resolve oedipal conflict.

선택적 함구증을 보인 6세 아동의 놀이치료 과정을 통해 나타난 정신역동 및 치료과정을 발달학적 관점에서 소개하였다. 비지시적 지지적 놀이치료를 실시하였고 치료자와의 관계속에서 환아는 놀이를 통하여 단계적으로 발달과정을 재경험하여 분리 불안 및 유기공포를 극복하고 자율성을 회복하므로써 증상의 소실과 함께 정상적 외디푸스시기의 발달을 이루게 되었다.