Healing powers of writing autobiography based on socio-cultural causes of breast cancer in Korean middle-aged women

This study was based on an observation that middle-aged Korean women experience socioculturally different paths of life, compared to a life of women from Europe or the U.S. Most middle-aged women in Korea spend their early years being ‘supportive wives’ or ‘dedicated mothers’. While trying to get away from the duties, far from getting freedom, they come to undergo ‘the second psychological meandering.’ This study carries two purposes. First is to demonstrate through real examples how the healing powers of writing autobiography affect Korean middle-aged women with breast cancer to become selfconscious. The other is to clinically verify how the healing powers are connected with healing resources. As participants worked on storytelling activities, they became absorbed in their internal memories, Informierter Leib. Also, they were verbally rewarded by autobiographic writing for their physical and mental sacrifices for their families. Overall, the significance of this study is on how those women become more self-conscious and identify themselves as the center of their lives, coping with collectively fixated identities on women in the society.