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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of group art therapy through LMT on the self esteem of schizophrenic inpatients. A total of 10 schizophrenic inpatients participated in this study. The experiment period was from January to April, 2009, twice a week, and 20 times in all. Each experiment lasted 70 minutes. The self-esteem tests were administered before and after the program to see if there was any change in the degree of the inpatients' self-esteem. The landscape montage technique (LMT) were also utilized four times, every 3 weeks. The research data were analyzed in order to see what effect this group art therapy gives to schizophrenic inpatients. The results of this study are as follows: First, the self-esteem points increased after the therapy. Second, the LMT showed that the experimental group had positive changes in the following analysis items: viewpoint, the relationship between river and road, unity, the number of items, space organization, the usage of realistic colors, finishing touch of colors, expression of distance and space, place of self image in landscape, and behavior change of self image in landscape. This study found that the group art therapy for schizophrenic inpatients helped improve the self esteem of the inpatients.