In Depth Sport Psychology

Prologue

Before the Beginning, meet depth sport psychology

My handshake with you, before the whistle blows

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



Part-animal, part-computer



Vive la France plus Coubertin

Chapter 3. Sports, here and now






The modern global plume of sport



Cultural pioneers or the road to perdition and abuse



Reconnecting with the soul of sport



Psychosocial Stages and thoughtful cultures in sport



Futures markets in sport

Chapter 4. Don't play at your peril






Playing for peace



Play and player are the same



Immersion and being in your body



Finding your senses



Does the music play us?
Principles important for play

The Middle - Performance and dealing with opposition.

Chapter 5- Dealing with the opposition






The Shadow force of competitive edge



Meet your inferior relative



The positive path for our Shadow worker



Zeus energy



Post match interview and analysis
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



The current generation of female archers

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



Mental fitness, archetypal phases, threats and opportunities



Lucky number seven and sports



Myths that speak to sports
Japan: The Magnificent Seven (as we know it now)
USA: Mickey Mouse, 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'
Greece: 'Atalanta and the Golden Apples'
Germany: 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'
The Kalahari: 'The Young Man and the Lion'
The seven deadly sins for the elite athlete

The end.

Chapter 8. Repair, the return to Freud



Good stress or bad stress in the twenty-first century



Now the contest is over



Emerging voices from the depths of psychology

Chapter 9. Freudian depth sport psychology
Tom Ferraro



Case study 1. 'The injury-prone perfectionist', working with a harsh superego: 16-year-old, highly ranked male tennis player
Case study 2. The false-self in a football player
Case study 3. The use of transference in the case of a professional golfer
Case study 4. Wrecked by success: the case of an All-American football player

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index