Hi there.
I too am very interested in chess as a form of therapy or healing. And I have looked at Dr Subida's work. Also, have you seen "Character edutaion in chess?". By Roumen Bezergianov?. Very good info too.
Can I ask, are you a chess coach?. I am starting that journey, coaching kids. I especially enjoy helping kids on the learning disability spectrum.
Maybe chat some time.
All the best. Gavin
Those of you chess players who have sat through an entire game, however amateurish it was, would know the sequence of emotions that arise within you at every change in the game. Though the ancient board game could give off a “monk-in-meditation” vibe for the less enlightened mortals, it sure affects your adrenalin as any other sport does.
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Ace players must be familiar with the string of emotions that occur during serious games. The tingling hope of a right move, the secret joy of confusing one’s opponent, the despair at calculations went wrong, the frustration and anger at feeling trapped; you name it and you get it! Chess players experience every emotion possible in a sport. Perhaps even more pressure and stress than others do.
Beyond a Board of Game: Chess and its emotional attributes
Today’s professional players are conscious of the larger social canvas of the game and are adept at keeping their cool and the sportsman spirit. But the long history of Chess has quite a few hilarious as well as hair-raising incidents of emotional outbursts by the early exponents of the game.
How a scuffle over chess between England’s King Henry I and France’s Louis VI, in 1120 triggered the 12-year war between both nations, would explain the gravity of volcanic emotions in a game of chess!
But did you know chess, by itself, is an effective tool in psychotherapy? According to Dr. Angelo Subida, Clinical Psychotherapist, speaker, and author of the book “Chess and Life”, Chess therapy is used as a creative and alternative diagnostic technique for issues concerning neurobehavioral and mental disorders.
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The therapeutic power of chess was discovered early in AD 852-932 by a Persian polymath named Rhazes, who was chief physician at Baghdad Hospital. Rhazes is said to have used chess to help his patients relate to real-life problems and help them think clearer through the game’s strategies and tactics.
Dr. Subida quotes from Wikipedia on chess therapy, "One of the earliest reported cases of chess therapy involves the improvement in an isolated, schizoid, 16-year old youth that took place after he became interested in chess” For him Chess became an outlet to vent his bottled up hostilities in a tactful, “non-retaliatory” way.
The boy eventually became more expressive about his feelings as he was able to relate to the emotional situations of the game that aligned with his mental dilemmas, dreams or fantasies.