Saturday, October 5, 2013

Chess Therapy for A Young Intellectual

One time, Mark, an Italian university-educated young man visited me in the hospital. He's hungry for chess practices and wanting to inquire about chess therapy. When he arrived, I asked him to join my group session and share a bit about himself. After a short conversation, he's truly a "philosopher" guy immersed in heady ideas and abstract concepts... But, most of all, he was seeing me for therapy. Chess therapy, in particular. Chess did fit him well. As author Ken Younos put it, "It is good therapy for philosophers to play chess."

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