ABSTRACT

The client was a 70-year-old woman who suffered from sleep disturbances, anger toward surroundingpeople(explosive anger disorder), hwa-byung symptoms, and the difficulties to break from the disturbinglife. The difficulties were formed from the unfair and unjust treatment by the former co-worker.Forgiveness therapy that is fundamentally to resolve the deep pain experienced by the interpersonal relations has been chosen as a means of overcoming the difficulties. Through the forgiving process,difficulties such as sleep disturbances were solved, at the same time she could evaluate her past life morepositively and satisfying. Forgiveness therapy has been proved to be effective in resolving interpersonalconflicts that were not solved until the old age and can improve the quality of life of older people.