Analytical Psychology and Sport

This book introduces the epistemology and psychology of C.G. Jung to the sport psychology readership. It considers the implications of analytical psychology with respect to theorising on well-established psychological phenomenon in sport.

Analytical Psychology and Sport: Epistemology, Theory and Practice introduces the epistemology and psychology of C.G. Jung to the sport psychology readership. In doing so, it considers for the first time the implications of analytical psychology with respect to theorising on well-established psychological phenomena in sport, including confidence, mental toughness and psychological momentum.

To date, sport psychology has given limited consideration to how epistemology itself informs the development of knowledge. In light of Jung's epistemological contributions and more recent developments in psychology, this new book explores how a renewed focus on the philosophy of science can help facilitate the development of sport psychology as a scientific discipline.

This new research volume investigates analytical psychology in relation to a number of novel topics, including person-athlete interdependence and the psychology of performance variation, and will be key reading for academics and students of sport and exercise psychology, analytical psychology and related disciplines.

Autorentext

Andrew Cowen, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Sport Psychology in the School of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Derby, UK.

Inhalt

1 Introduction

2 An introduction to the epistemology of Jung (subject~object)

3 Towards an epistemology of being and becoming

4 Positivism and analytical psychology

5 The psychology of momentum in sports: A Jungian analysis

6 The role of time: Theoretical implications for sport psychology

7 Applied implications (person~athlete)

8 Conclusions