ABSTRACT
Sport can become, and often is, an outlet for the externalization of specific feelings, which normally, i.e. in the absence of sports, would lay dormant. For instance, emotions of anxiety for performance in contest, despair while losing, euphoria of goal-scoring, joy in victory, joy of playing with and playing against, anger at teammates’ poor performance, and guilt after defeat are such emotions; they are sport-specific. Sport training and practice can be arenas for therapy of emotions, therapy understood broadly as healing. Sport heals in many ways, but the focus here is emotional healing.
