Midweek Mental Greening
You might remember my post about Felix Treitler’s new spin on therapy a few weeks ago.
If not, here’s a little refresher course: Felix Treitler is a Boston-based Certified Tennis Professional and Licensed Therapist who has combined his love of physical activity and helping others to create an interesting kind of therapy.
This week, I was able to email with Treitler about this new kind of “sports therapy” (for which I learned there is a more appropriate name), how he came to combine his two passions to provide this therapy to clients, and the positive responses he’s received from both clients and mental health professionals thus far.
Read on!
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Sorry guys, this would not work for me. My mother was a tennis freak and won thousands of trophies. She insisted I play tennis and literally drained the joy of the game out of me. When we played tennis together, it was not about the tennis it was about annihilating each other off the court. Tennis with transference issues, anyone?
@ Sonia – Haha, well, that’s understandable. Fortunately Felix offers to play other sports, too, as well as games, music, etc. I like how he calls it “activity therapy” (where I’d been referring to it as sports therapy before).
There are numerous therapies that seem to help psychological problems. They all involve something Treitler is including, time away from daily habits.
Why should activities that remove the subject from daily habits succeed where drugs don’t?
As far back as the 1700′s those placed in “mad houses” (no drugs, no treatment) had spontaneous remissions from serious mental illness.
Is it possible that Treitler has stumbled on the solution to this mystery?
There is a simple answer to why these remissions happen. They stop Subliminal Distraction exposure.