“Chess Therapy” on your image made me go “what” so I looked it up:
Chess therapy is a form of psychotherapy that attempts to use chess games between the therapist and client or clients to form stronger connections between them towards a goal of confirmatory or alternate diagnosis and consequently, better healing. [...]
In psychoanalysis chess games are wish fulfillment, and that an important part of these wish fulfillment are the result of repressed desires—desires that can scare a person so much that their games may turn into a series of defeats. Chess games can be divided into wishful games, anxiety games, and punitive games.
Yeah, I had (have?) high skepticism of its effectiveness too, and it’s definitely not a modality I’d use myself, but then I remember that I have used board games in therapy before with younger clients, particularly families, and there’s some surprising stuff that can come out by observing the way people play games :)
“Chess Therapy” on your image made me go “what” so I looked it up:
I was about to say something like “okay, this is starting to sound silly even to me”, but then I remembered that a linkpost to an article about self-sabotage in Magic: the Gathering has been called one of the top most valuable things on LW, so I guess it’s not that silly after all.
Yeah, I had (have?) high skepticism of its effectiveness too, and it’s definitely not a modality I’d use myself, but then I remember that I have used board games in therapy before with younger clients, particularly families, and there’s some surprising stuff that can come out by observing the way people play games :)