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In Depth Sport Psychology: Reclaiming the Lost Soul of the Athlete book cover

1st Edition

In Depth Sport Psychology Reclaiming the Lost Soul of the Athlete

By David Huw Burston Copyright 2019
220 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Prologue

Before the Beginning, meet depth sport psychology

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

  • Party animal part computer

  • Vive la France plus Coubertin

Chapter 3. Sports here and now

  • The modern global plume of sports

  • Cultural pioneers or the road to perdition and abuse

  • Reconnecting with the soul of sports

  • Psychosocial Stages and thoughtful cultures in sports

  • Futures markets in sports

Chapter 4. Don’t play at your peril

  • Play and Prayer are the same

  • Playing for Peace

  • Immersion and being in your body

  • Finding your senses

  • Does the music play us?

Principles Important for Play

Middle - Performance and dealing with opposition

Chapter 5- Dealing with the opposition

  • The Shadow force of competitive edge

  • Meet your inferior relative

  • The golden positive path for our Shadow worker

  • Zeus energy

  • Post match interview and analysis

Characteristics of the Shadow,

How do we inspire our sporting Shadow?

What does a Shadow feel like? - the embodiment of the Shadow

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

  • Katie Webb

Chapter 7 - Numbers, Phases and Myths that speak to Sports

  • Mental fitness, archetypal phases, threats and opportunities

  • Lucky number 7 and sports

  • Myths that speak to sports

Endings

Chapter 8. Repair, the return to Freud

  • Good stress or bad stress in the 21st century

  • Now the contest is over

  • The emerging voices from the depths of psychology

  • Freudian depth sport psychology Dr. Tom Ferraro

Prologue

  • The soul of the athlete

Biography

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. 

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