The Management of Violence Using Fencing as a Prevention and Re-Education Tool: AIPPS Model

Abstract

Fight against violence is an extremely current theme that involves entire society must be addressed whiteout prejudice or cultural stereotype. It’s a long time that AIPPS works in the social sector proposing its elaborated model thanks to in-depth field research awarded and presented in nnumerosus international psychological conferences. AIPPS model  is a help tour to the management of violent behavior, independent of being victim or perpetrator and indipendente of gender, using fencing as prevention and re-education instrument. Through the rules of fencing, supported by an important component of therapeutic analysis of fencing action,  an interpretation  of defense mechanisms of the subject is carried out helping to develop awareness of reading the other. The goal  of the model  is to learn  to understand the mechanisms acted  instinctively and a develop effective  management  of the same mechanisms without forgetting  to borrow  them from  the opponent’s  responses. The psychological reading of the fencing bout opens the  dialogue  to  the structuring of new coping strategies applicable to daily life. An important project in terms of re-education  was carried out at “BECCARIA”, a juvenile detention  center in Milan, at the beginning  of the 2000s, while  a prevention  project was created recently in middle schools in the Milanese  suburbs during school hours as a prevention of  bullying involving  both students  and teachers.