碩士 / 南華大學 / 生死學系 / 100 / The purpose of this study was to understand the cancer patients’ life transformation experience after they touched the Seth philosophy. The purposive sampling was used in this study and the approach of data collection was from recall by in-depth interviewing. Four patients were interviewed for total ten times, and the thematic analysis was used for coding and analysation. This study first investigate the cancer patients’ physical and psychological state before their illness, the circumstances they touched the Seth philosophy, the adjustment process after they believed in the Seth philosophy, and at last their physical and psychological change.
The finding of the research included:1. The cancer patients paid much attention on diet, sleep, and exercise but had negative thoughts, and believed in Altruism and perfectionism. 2. The cancer patients touched the Seth philosophy because suffering from the chemotherapy and the fare of death. 3. The Seth philosophy had a great influence on the cancer patients. They came to believed that mind creates matter, and that each individual creates his or her own reality through thoughts, beliefs and expectations, and that the "point of power" through which the individual can effect change is in the present moment. The ways to carry out the beliefs included meditating, massaging the body, looking on the bright side of life, and conducting naturopathy. 4.The influence of the Seth philosophy upon cancer patients were, (1) The improvement of the body health. (2) The self-recovery of the body, relieved from fear and anxiety for death. (3) The improvement of relationships, and get a balanced state between id, ego, and environment. (4) Realize the importance of the expression of emotion and the release of pressure, put down negative thoughts and ideas. (5) Believe that spirits live on forever and get a peaceful inner. (6) Find the meaning of life; recognize, accept and take good care of oneself.
From the result, some suggestions were given that therapists give more spiritual support to reduce patients’ fear and anxiety, and that the government encourage people to put more attention on psychological health, life meaning and spiritual development. People should believe the self-recovery of their own body and do not rely on medicine too much. Besides the traditional therapies, cancer patients can also give some spiritual and inner therapies a try. This study investigate only four patients that the accurate inference is hard to get. Researchers can have more investigations in this subject.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/100NHU05672016 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Mei-yu Lin, 林美玉 |
| Contributors | Yuan-xian Lin, 林原賢 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 210 |
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