This book utilizes a wealth of case studies to demonstrate the
importance of using depth sport psychology to explore and
understand athletes’ unconscious feelings and fears, and provides
the knowledge needed to help athletes deal with pressures faced
throughout their sporting career. Applying the theories of Sigmund
Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Margaret Mahler, Melanie Klein,
Heinz Kohut, Donald Winnicott, and Christopher Bollas to explain
the dynamics within the athlete’s mind, this useful resource will
help develop a better understanding of athlete’s repressed
feelings and psychological states. It looks past the cognitive
behavioural techniques currently used to aid athletes, and instead
focuses on the many ways the unconscious subtly influences
athletes, offering an important a paradigm shift. Covering a range
of different athletes within various sports, each chapter
demonstrates how the psychoanalytic techniques of free association,
the working alliance, analytic interpretations, confrontation,
dream analysis, transference/counter transference and resistance
analysis are used with athletes. Case studies cover such topics as
the treatment of anxiety, yips, anger, guilt and perfectionism in
the athlete, the influence of birth order, psychological defences
used by athletes including gamesmanship, dissociation and humor,
and the psychology of injury. Unpacking Depth Sport Psychology is
the ideal resource for students, the educated athlete, parents,
professors, sport psychologists, and coaches who hope to improve
the athletes’ performance.
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