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Author:   David Burston (Clinical Psychotherapist, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9781138500983

ISBN 10:   1138500984
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   09 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Prologue Before the Beginning, meet depth sport psychology My handshake with you, before the whistle blows 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 Part-animal, part-computer Vive la France plus Coubertin Chapter 3. Sports, here and now The modern global plume of sport Cultural pioneers or the road to perdition and abuse Reconnecting with the soul of sport Psychosocial Stages and thoughtful cultures in sport Futures markets in sport Chapter 4. Don’t play at your peril Playing for peace Play and player are the same Immersion and being in your body Finding your senses Does the music play us? Principles important for play The Middle - Performance and dealing with opposition. Chapter 5- Dealing with the opposition The Shadow force of competitive edge Meet your inferior relative The positive path for our Shadow worker Zeus energy Post match interview and analysis 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 The current generation of female archers Chapter 7 - Numbers, Phases and Myths that speak to Sport Mental fitness, archetypal phases, threats and opportunities Lucky number seven and sports Myths that speak to sports Japan: The Magnificent Seven (as we know it now) USA: Mickey Mouse, 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' Greece: 'Atalanta and the Golden Apples' Germany: 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' The Kalahari: 'The Young Man and the Lion' The seven deadly sins for the elite athlete The end. Chapter 8. Repair, the return to Freud Good stress or bad stress in the twenty-first century Now the contest is over Emerging voices from the depths of psychology Chapter 9. Freudian depth sport psychology Tom Ferraro Case study 1. 'The injury-prone perfectionist', working with a harsh superego: 16-year-old, highly ranked male tennis player Case study 2. The false-self in a football player Case study 3. The use of transference in the case of a professional golfer Case study 4. Wrecked by success: the case of an All-American football player Epilogue Bibliography Index

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David Burston, PhD, M.F.T., is a psychotherapist in Los Angeles, USA, spending part of his time working as a UK chartered clinical and sport psychologist consultant with a Premier League football club in London. Initially a professional actor, 15 years ago David began using his experience to help athletes, integrating those ideas with Jungian depth perspectives.

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