Fencing as a method of existential therapy

 
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Abstract

In article the unusual therapeutic method – «Therapeutic fencing» is presented. As a matter of fact, it is one of forms of existential therapy. A client presence at existentially important situations becomes the basic attention focus of the therapeutic work here. Shortly having specified the theoretical bases of a method, the author opens methodical aspects of work in details. Exercises with a sword not simply “model” key reality situations of relations with the world, with other people, but often allow the client clearly endure existential sense of these situations.

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Keywords: Existential therapy, the Daseinanalysis, Presence, integrity, fencing, a duel

Journal rubric: Workshop and Methods

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For citation: Letunovsky, V.V. (2009). Fencing as a method of existential therapy. Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy, 17(2), 191–204. (In Russ.). URL: https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/cpp/archive/2009_n2/Letunovskiy (viewed: 05.12.2025)

© Letunovsky V.V., 2009

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

Information About the Authors

Vyacheslav V. Letunovsky, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: Lightexist@homesite.ru

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