Considerations and contributions from psychology ,especially form from the psychoanalysis´ perspective, about the effects of the practice and teaching of Taekwon-Do.

Thesis by M Christian Leo, Dan VIII, Argentina

The idea of this work is to reflect and be able to think about certain individual and group psychic processes that occur during the transmission of our art. We will not only look at it from the point of view of transmitting our martial art based on its principles and philosophy, from the appropriate teaching methodology, but also from the effects that the practice of Taekwon-Do produces in terms of boosting self-esteem and the relationship this has with the management and control of aggressiveness.

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