In Depth Sport Psychology - David Burston

In Depth Sport Psychology

Reclaiming the Lost Soul of the Athlete

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Buch | Softcover
204 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-50098-3 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
In Depth Sport Psychology: Reclaiming the Lost Soul of the Athlete is an exploration of the vital archetypal elements and themes that emerge when considering elite sports psychology through a depth psychological lens. It provides readers with ways to harness the self, placing athletes on a path towards personal growth and sporting
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 Sport 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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 2 Tables, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 336 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Weitere Fachgebiete Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-138-50098-4 / 1138500984
ISBN-13 978-1-138-50098-3 / 9781138500983
Zustand Neuware
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