本研究目的係在探討未婚女性罹癌的生命經驗。以敘事研究取向進行自我敘說，探究研究者在罹癌後，接受正統醫學治療之外，個體在遭逢「死亡」的威脅如何因應，透過自我敘說，與這個生活處境和其中心境的描繪與之對話，藉由其在生命的斷裂及自我的解構中，重新詮釋生命及重構自我。因此本研究所要探索的目的有：一、瞭解罹癌經驗對自身生活世界與自我之影響及其調適過程。二、瞭解自我治療的經驗。三、瞭解罹癌對自身內在生命意義之經驗與轉化。 本研究採取生命之流的意象進行自我敘說，以問題的外化之立場進行研究分析。其研究結果獲致的發現如下：一.原生家庭、環境、教育、社會文化對個體的價值觀及行為有深遠的影響。二.自我的追尋與反思在生命進程的發展中扮演著重要的轉化角色。三.自我治療對個體的意志力及內在力量探索具有涵養的功能。四.意義的探尋與建構是生命成長與療癒之道。五.愛是一切的答案。 The purpose of this study is to investigate the life process of an unmarried female with cancer, based on narrative research orientation, to explore how the individual,after she was diagnosed cancer and accepted medical treatment, responds to the treats of death by self-narrative, a dialogue with this life situation and the description of her moods. By self-deconstruction in the cleavage of life, the individual re-interpreted life and rebuilt herself.Therefore, the purposes of this study are as following,1. To realize how the impact of cancer influenced on the individual’s living world and herself and the process of self-adaptation.2. To realize the experience of self therapy.3. To realize how the impact of cancer transformed the individual’s inner meaning of life. This study takes the image of life flow to self-narrative, researching and analyzing based on externalizing problems. The results obtained are as following,1. Original family, environment, education, social culture has profound influence on the individual’s values and behaviors.2. The pursuit of self and self-reflection plays an important role in the transformation of the developing life process.3. Self therapy can nourish individual’s will and the capability of exploring inner power.4. The exploring and pursuit of meaning is the way to growth and healing of life.5. Love is the answer of everything.
