1st Edition
Adventure Psychology Going Knowingly into the Unknown
Adventure Psychology: Framing the Discipline
Eric Brymer and Paula Reid
Adventure Psychology: A Long Past, but a Short History
Peter Suedfeld
SECTION I
Sustaining Performance (While Maintaining Wellbeing)
1 The Adventurer’s Mind: Exploring Mindset, Mindfulness, and Wisdom
Mohsen Fatemi and Paula Reid
2 Adventures in Extreme Environments
Peter Suedfeld
3 Enduring Performance
Ronald Duren Jr.
4 Dealing with the Unknown
Jennifer Pickett and Paula Reid
5 Adventure, Positive Psychology, and Narrative: The Wellbeing Impacts of Answering the Call to Adventure
Kitrina Douglas, David Carless, Paula Reid and Ruth Hughes
6 The Human–Environment Dynamic: An Ecological Dynamics Approach to Understanding Human–Environment Interactions in the Context of Adventure Psychology
Tuomas Immonen, Eric Brymer, Timo Jaakkola and Keith Davids
7 Fear in Extended Adventures: The Case of Expedition Mountaineering
Katrina Kessler and Eric Brymer
8 Success and Failure in Adventure
Erik Monasterio
9 Sisu: Answering the Call of Adventure with
Strength and Grace
Emilia Elisabet Lahti
SECTION II
Transformational Impact of Adventure
10 How Can Adventure Change Our Consciousness? An Exploration of Flow, Mindfulness, and Adventure
Susan Houge Mackenzie
11 Adventure, Posttraumatic Growth, and Wisdom
Hanna Kampman and Petra Walker
12 Adventure and the Sublime: A Quest for Transformation or Transcendence?
Chris Loynes and Amy Smallwood
13 Giving Back: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Adventure Experience as Transformational
Vinathe Sharma-Brymer
Adventure Psychology: Learnings and Implications
Eric Brymer and Paula Reid
Biography
Paula Reid has a Batchelor of Education (Hons) degree and graduated with a Distinction MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology from the University of East London. Her organisation, ‘Adventure Psychology’, delivers the performance psychology of how to survive, cope and thrive during challenging times. She is based in the UK and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Eric Brymer is a behavioural scientist who specialises in researching the psychology of adventure experiences, performance in extreme environments and the reciprocal nature of health and wellbeing from nature-based experiences. He holds a PhD in Adventure Psychology, a Master’s degree in Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology and postgraduate degrees in Education and Business. Eric works with and advises governments and institutional departments. He also holds research positions in health, exercise and outdoor studies in Europe, UK and Australia.
