At a time when the public discussion of mental illness in society
is reaching a high point, athletes and other sports insiders remain
curiously silent about their private battles with a range of mental
illnesses. While a series of professional athletes have exposed the
deep, dark secret related to the pervasiveness of mental illness in
high performance sport, relatively little is known, sociologically,
about what mental illness culturally means inside sport. This
edited collection showcases research on how sport, as a social
institution, may actually produce dangerous cultural practices and
contexts that foster the development of mental illness within
athlete groups. Further, chapters also illustrate how sport, when
organized with sensitivity and care, may serve to help manage
mental illnesses. Rather than analyzing mental illness as an
individual phenomenon, contributors to this volume equally attest
to how mental illness is socially developed, constructed, managed,
and culturally understood within sport settings. The book
highlights the relevance of a range of theories pertinent to the
social study of mental illness including dramaturgy, cultural
studies, learning theory, symbolic interaction, existentialism, and
total pain theory. Chapters range from the discussion of
depression, anxiety, eating disorders, drug addiction, epilepsy,
mental trauma, stigma, the mass mediation of mental illness, and
the promise of sport as a vehicle for personal and collective
recovery.
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