This study is to inquire into the effect of art therapy with TA(Transactional Analysis) modalities for
married couple on the improvement of marital communication and marital intimacy. The study subject is
one married couple in J city. The wife(37 years old) has a depression and the husband(37 years old) owns
a private business, who have difficulties in marital communication. The 20 art therapeutic sessions with TA
modalities of this study were carried out for them by way of both structuralization and nonstructuralization
procedures once a week, 90 minutes a session. To find out the effect of the therapeutic
program of this study, two ways of comparative analysis were carried out. One was a comparative analysis
between the results of marital communication, marital intimacy. The other was a comparative analysis of
behavior and attitude observations by this art therapeutic steps. The results are as follows. Firstly, it is
found out that this art therapy program with TA modalities is effective on the marital communication,
Secondly, it is found out that this art therapy program with TA modalities is effective on the marital
intimacy. Thirdly, they lack intimacy each other because there are a lot of cagy interactions between them
in a step of forming intimacy and of understanding character of them. However, from the step of
improving communication on, the understanding on each other's situation and feeing by way of frank
expression of feeling leads to a lot of detailed and complementary interactions. As a result, their martial
intimacy is improved.