Professional paper
Philately – a useful activity of knowledge and information transfer also effective in psycho-emotional therapy
Zdenko Kosinac
Abstract
Philately – envelope and stamp collecting, is undoubtedly a generator of knowledge and information transfer, but it also has significant educational and aesthetic values. With its numerous beneficial effects it mentally and physically releases people from stress, neuromuscular tension and anxiety, by making them relaxed, happy and content.
There are many plausible reasons why systematic stamp collecting gives a meaning to everyday life and makes a person a powerful consumer of everyday natural, social and historical events, and thus contributes to humanization and socialization. .
Numerous researches and experiences have shown that systematic stamp collection has a therapeutic effect, especially on people with psychical and emotional problems. Therefore, the benefits of philately have been gradually acknowledged
Keywords
philately; knowledge; treatment of neuromuscular tensions and anxiety; the contributions of philately to socialization
Hrčak ID:
82186
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Publication date:
30.6.2011.
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