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• Prologue
• Before the Beginning, meet depth sport psychology
• The Beginning.
• Chapter 1. `The knowledge'-- stone tools to video chat in 30,000 years
• The ages of animism and scientism
• Women are top cats
• The new knowledge-- the star
• The new male gods of the sky
• The first ever Brexit
• Chapter 2. The Greek legacy of Sport
• The Axial Age and the birth of a sporting world
• The birth of science as we know it
• Harmonia the Olympic love child of the shotgun wedding
• The Deal-- Do the Gods or the gods will do you
• The lost soul of the performer
• Party animal part computer
• Vive la France plus Coubertin
• Chapter 3. Sports here and now
• The modern global plume of sports
• Cultural pioneers or the road to perdition and abuse
• Reconnecting with the soul of sports
• Psychosocial Stages and thoughtful cultures in sports
• Futures markets in sports
• Chapter 4. Don't play at your peril
• Play and Prayer are the same
• Playing for Peace
• Immersion and being in your body
• Finding your senses
• Does the music play us?
• Principles Important for Play
• Middle - Performance and dealing with opposition
• Chapter 5- Dealing with the opposition
• The Shadow force of competitive edge
• Meet your inferior relative
• The golden positive path for our Shadow worker
• Zeus energy
• Post match interview and analysis
• Characteristics of the Shadow,
• How do we inspire our sporting Shadow?
• What does a Shadow feel like? - the embodiment of the Shadow
• Finishing off the shadow
• Chapter 6. Women's sports
• Creating epoche
• Lilly Par the woman history could not forget
• The archetypal lineage of the female archers
• The four trials of psyche
• Katie Webb
• Chapter 7 - Numbers, Phases and Myths that speak to Sports
• Mental fitness, archetypal phases, threats and opportunities
• Lucky number 7 and sports
• Myths that speak to sports
• Endings
• Chapter 8. Repair, the return to Freud
• Good stress or bad stress in the 21st century
• Now the contest is over
• The emerging voices from the depths of psychology
• Freudian depth sport psychology Dr. Tom Ferraro
• Prologue
• The soul of the athlete.
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In -Depth Sport Psychology: Reclaiming the Lost Soul of the Athlete is a unique exploration of the vital archetypal elements and themes that emerge when considering elite sportssport psychology through a depth psychological lens. It provides athletes, young people, coaches and clinicians with ways to harness the self, placing athletes on a path towards personal growth and sporting excellence by reconnecting their spirit to their sport. Burston's multidisciplinary and inclusive approach details the importance of spirituality and other unmeasurable factors, such as emotional recovery, when investigating sporting potential. Incorporating research from classic mythology and the Greek sports academies, he traces sport back to humanity's animalistic and traumatic origins, explores the rise of the Olympic movement, and compares archetypal identities that are shared with athletes today. Relating this to today's financially driven and technological sporting climate, he considers the roots of play, examines the difference in the psyche of team sports and individual players, discusses the crucial, clinical welfare of young people, and dedicates a section to sportswomen. In -Depth Sport Psychology emphasises how awakening an athlete's unconscious spirit can positively improve their performance, and offers an applicable methodology for athletes and teachers to use to better understand themselves and achieve brilliance. Uniquely exploring the connection between Jungian depth psychology and sports, the accessible tone of In -Depth SportsSport Psychology will be key reading for analytical and depth psychologists in practice and in training, sports psychologists and other professionals working with athletes. It will also appeal to athletes and sportspeople interested in exploring a new perspective on sporting excellence.
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• Chapter 1. Why Do We Need a Psychology of Sport?
• Chapter 2. Do I Need Sport Psychology?
• Chapter 3. Motivation: Making sense of the 'Will to WIN'
• Chapter 4. Can Sport Psychology Stop Me Being Sick With Nerves Before I Play?
• Chapter 5. Choking, Ball-Watching and 'Sledging' - Applying the Science of Attention to Staying Focussed in Sport Performance
• Chapter 6. It's All About Having a Positive Mental Attitude - Isn't It?
• Chapter 7. Team Spirit: Accident or Design?
• Chapter 8. Children and Youth Sport: The Mind of a Child is Not a Vessel to be Filled, it is a Fire to be Kindled
• Chapter 9. The Psychology of Sport Injury: There Are Two Types of Performer - Those Who Are Currently Injured and Those Who Will Become Injured
• Chapter 10. Knowing When to Stop: Psychology and the Transition Out of Sport
• Chapter 11. Pulling the Threads Together - One Last Time.
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Faster, Fitter, Happier is the first book to bridge the gap between the practice of psychology across both professional and amateur sport, and the theoretical foundations on which the science is based. Author Tony Westbury has been working alongside coaches and performers across a range of sports for over 25 years, during which time he has been asked everything from the best methods to combat nerves to developing that elusive `will to win'. Here he provides the answers to 75 questions that encapsulate some of the most important issues he's faced. From motivating yourself to stick to a training programme to taking a high-pressure penalty or getting back in the saddle after a fall, the book offers guidance and advice across a range of sports for both professional and amateur alike. Its accessible style is ideally suited to performers, coaches, teachers and parents, while each question also includes a summary of the theory - an invaluable resource for students and early career practitioners. With a foreword by British Lion and Scottish International Jason White, this is a unique overview of how sport psychology can support us in our everyday sporting endeavours. Engaging, insightful and practical, it will be essential reading whether you're training for the Olympics or just losing confidence after yet another missed putt.
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• PART ONE: INTRODUCING SPORT PSYCHOLOGY The History of Sport Psychology Practising Sport Psychology Ethical Issues Organizations, Sources and Resources PART TWO: ANXIETY AND STRESS Anxiety and Arousal Measuring Stress and Anxiety Pre-Performance Routines Choking Under Pressure Coping Strategies PART THREE: MOTIVATION AND COMMITMENT Sport Participation Motives Burnout and Dropout Goal Setting Fear of Failure and Need to Achieve Self-Determination Theory Achievement Goal Theory Self-Efficacy and Perceived Competence PART FOUR: COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN SPORT Mental Imagery Mental Practice Attention and Concentration Positive Self-Talk and Thought Control Mental Toughness PART FIVE: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT Team Cohesion Team Building Causal Attribution Social Facilitation and Social Loafing Leadership and Effective Coaching Home Advantage Aggression Fans and Spectators PART SIX: MOTOR SKILLS Motor Development Expertise Decision-Making Practising Motor Skills Analysis and Measurement of Motor Performance PART SEVEN: SPORT AND WELL-BEING Gender Issues Overtraining and Exercise Addiction Injury and Retirement.
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This book provides a focused, accurate guide for students working within the dynamic field of sport psychology. The concise and authoritative entries have been selected by experienced teachers and researchers; each one defines, explains and develops a key topic in sport psychology acting as a springboard for further reading and debate. This is a stimulating and practical resource for students defined by the clarity of writing and relevant examples. Each concept gives the student: * clear definitions * up-to-date suggestions for further reading * careful cross-referencing Easy to use and intelligently judged this book offers the modern student the basic materials, tools and guidance for planning essays and passing exams.
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• Essay
• 1. A Narrative Perspective: Identity, Well-Being, and Trauma in Professional Sport-- Essay
• 2. Representing Applied Research Experiences Through Performance-- Essay
• 3. In Praise of Quantitative Methods: How Numbers Can Change Culture-- Essay
• 4. Critical Reflections on Doing Reflective Practice and Writing Reflective Texts-- Essay
• 5. Representing Multilayered Lives: Embracing Context Through the Storied Self-- Essay
• 6. The Practitioner and Client as Storytellers.
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"Critical Essays in Applied Sport Psychology" is a thought-provoking collection of 16 essays discussing the sport psychology traditions, research models and practices. The editors have brought together a team of internationally recognised sport psychologists with backgrounds in various disciplines to offer insights into sport cultures ranging from youth sport to professional sport. With ideas that will interest those in the applied sport psychology field as well as psychologists, psychotherapists and research psychologists, "Critical Essays in Applied Sport Psychology" offers an opportunity to reflect on their current or future professional practice.
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• List of Illustrations Introduction: The Origins of Sport Psychology
• Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. and Christopher D. Green
• 1. The Dawn of Sport Psychology in Europe,
• 18801930: Early Pioneers of a New Branch of Applied Science
• Gunther Baumler
• 2. E. W. Scripture: The Application of "New Psychology" Methodology to Athletics
• C. James Goodwin
• 3. Norman Triplett: Recognizing the Importance of Competition
• Stephen F. Davis, Matthew T. Huss, and Angela H. Becker
• 4. Karl S. Lashley and John B. Watson: Early Research on the Acquisition of Skill in Archery
• Donald A. Dewsbury
• 5. Psychology and Baseball: The Testing of Babe Ruth
• Alfred H. Fuchs
• 6. An Offensive Advantage: The Football Charging Studies at Stanford University
• Frank G. Baugh and Ludy T. Benjamin Jr.
• 7. Coleman Roberts Griffith: "Father" of North American Sport Psychology
• Christopher D. Green
• 8. Paul Brown: Bringing Psychological Testing to Football
• Stephen T. Graef, Alan S. Kornspan, and David Baker
• 9. Enhancing Performance in Sport: The Use of Hypnosis and Other Psychological Techniques in the 1950s and 1960s
• Alan S. Kornspan Conclusion: The "Proper" History of Sport Psychology
• Christopher D. Green and Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. Contributors Index.
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Although sport psychology did not fully mature as a recognized discipline until the 1960s, pioneering psychologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, making greater use of empirical research methodologies, sought to understand mental factors that affect athletic performance. Though the psychologists behind the studies described here worked independently of one another and charted their own distinct courses of inquiry, their works, taken together, provided the corpus of precedents and foundations on which the modern field of sport psychology was built. The essays collected in this volume tell the stories not only of these psychologists and their subjects but of the social and academic context that surrounded them, shaping and being shaped by their ideas.
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