This study aims to identify the changing perception in female victims of
domestic violence who were participated in the integrative art therapy. For
the purpose, I have examined the result of the integrative art therapy taken
place for 8 times from October 27 through December 22, 2011. The
program was consist of drawing, writing, psychodrama, one-scene drama
technique, and empty chair technique. Phenomenological method was made
use of in order to determine the participants' cognitive changing process and
its meanings before and after the program.
As the result, 3 higher categories and 9 lower categories at the level of
changing perception of the female victims can be drawn. The higher
categories include the stage of male-centered patriarchal society,
objectification with empathy, and society with gender equality. In the
male-centered patriarchal society category, the perceptive condition of the
participants was as follows; ignorance, contempt, exclusion, husband-evil/
I-angel inscription as different species, a good daughter-in-law complex, and
amplified rage, while in the objectification with empathy, the level of
emotional change through intervention as follows; condensed rage and
melting it out in full strength, 'becoming husband' in reconsidering marital
relationship, remembering good memories, and becoming a confident new
person. In the society with gender equality category, they have shown the
aspect of strong daughter-in-law, finding merits of their families and starting new life, designing dreams and deciding to divorce, and living an
independent life.
It can be said that a patriarchal society makes it a social condition to treat
women with impersonal attitude, and dysfunctional reactions of the
oppressed women tend to provoke domestic violence. Modern society in the
progress of rapid expansion of women's rights has induced women to escape
from subordinates to owners of their lives.