最後,本研究針對上述的研究發現進行討論,並對未來的研究者及性加害人實務工作的相關人員提出建議,提供相關議題的參考方向。
The paper aims at understanding, during compulsory group psychotherapy of sexual offenders, the interpersonal interaction phenomenon and experience of sexual offenders with the group members. The research areas of the paper cover: (1) Interpersonal experience of the group members in their lives; (2) Interaction phenomenon and experience of the group members with other people in the group; (3) Effects of therapists’ intervention on the group dynamics. The study takes a compulsory psychotherapy group of sexual offenders in a male prison as the research targets, with 12 group members and 2 therapists involved. The researcher joined the group for six times to make observation. The paper makes qualitative analysis of the written dialogs taken from five of the six visits, and the discussion and interview contents collected after group meetings. The paper rearranges three major sharing members’ interpersonal experience inside and outside the group, overall interaction experience of all members of the group, therapists’ intervention and its effects, and then conducts overall interpretation. The analysis and interpretation results are shown as follows:
I. Interpersonal interaction experience and effects of sexual offenders in their lives.
i. The members in the group showed their love and hate in the relationship with their parents.
ii. The members’ identification with the interaction with their original families easily appear repeatedly in general interpersonal relationship.
iii. Before the group members committed sexual crime, they may have experienced unbearable frustration and difficulties.
II. Interpersonal interaction phenomenon and experience of sexual offenders in the compulsory group psychotherapy
i. The group members presented the issues of trauma and violence in their early years, and brought out the opportunity of internal integration.
ii. The difference in personality traits and socioeconomic background among the group members is both a help and obstacle to therapy.
iii. Discussing about criminal cases always made the atmosphere of the group become tense, but instant intervention of therapists could help alleviate the tense atmosphere.
iv. Discussing about planning of life after prison might be an issue achieving greatest support from the group members.
v. Discussing about group dynamics is an advantage to the psychotherapy group of sexual offenders with long-term imprisonment.
III. Effects of therapists’ intervention on the psychotherapy group dynamics of sexual offenders
i. Compulsory therapy let the group members develop negative feeling; meanwhile it gave them an opportunity of treatment.
ii. Transference–countertransference may become a tool to understand the group members and avoid destroy the therapeutic relationship.
iii. Therapists’ containing trait could deepen the group members’ involvement in compulsory therapy.
Finally, the paper discusses about the findings of the above research, and gives suggestions to the future researchers and the related practical workers helping sexual offenders in order to provide a referential direction for studying the related issues.