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Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Intense Involvement in Sports (Hardcover)
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Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Intense Involvement in Sports (Hardcover)
Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
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This book is a unique volume that brings a variety of
psychoanalytic perspectives to the study of sport. It highlights
the importance of sports for different individuals and how the
function and use of sports can be brought into the consulting room.
Passionate interest in actively engaging in sports is a universal
phenomenon. It is striking that this aspect of human life, prior to
this volume, has received little attention in the literature of
psychoanalysis. This edited volume is comprised largely of
psychoanalysts who are themselves avidly involved with sports. It
is suggested that intense involvement in sports prioritizes
commitment and active engagement over passivity and that such
involvement provides an emotionally tinged distraction from the
various misfortunes of life. Indeed, the ups and downs in mood
related to athletic victory or defeat often supplant, temporarily,
matters in life that may be more personally urgent. Engaging in
sports or rooting for teams provides a feeling of community and a
sense of identification with like-minded others, even among those
who are part of other communities and have sufficient communal
identifications. This book offers a better psychoanalytic
understanding of sports to help us discover more about ourselves,
our patients and our culture, and will be of great interest to
psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, or anyone with an interest in
sport and its link to psychoanalysis and mental health.
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