Unpacking Depth Sport Psychology

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.

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Dr. Tom Ferraro is a Psychoanalyst and Sport Psychologist living in New York, USA and working with professional athletes, Olympians and professional teams in a variety of sports. In addition, he is an award-winning writer whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The London Times and The Wall Street Journal and is a frequent guest on national television shows.

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1. The Freudian Playbook

2. Psychoanalytic Theories Applied to Athletes

3. Psychoanalytic Techniques Used with Athletes

4. The Athletes' Motivation Viewed as a Repetition Compulsion

Part 1: Case Studies of Anxiety in Sports

5. The Cause and Cure of a Golfer's Chipping Yips

6. Mediocrity and the Fear of Success

7. Serving Yips in Tennis

8. An Olympic Swimmer who Froze in the Blocks

9. Anxiety, Overthinking and Loss of Flow in a Hockey Player

10. The Tennis Player who Choked because of Guilt

11. A Boxer with Mind-Numbing Anxiety

Part 2: Case Studies of Athletes with Guilt

12. The Championship Boxer with Too Much Guilt

13. A Long-Distance Swimmer with Survivor Guilt

Part 3: Case Studies of Depressed Athletes

14. Narcissistic Collapse in an Athlete

15. Depression After Winning the Rookie of The Year Award in Major League Baseball

16. Depression used as Defense in Basketball

17. Unresolved Grief in a Tennis Player with the Serving Yips

Part 4: Case Studies of How Athletes Use Psychological Defenses

18. Regression in Sports Teams or Why Players Act like Children

19. How Athletes Use Psychological Defenses in Sports

20. Dissociation and The Zone

21. Choking and The Repression of Aggression

22. Gamesmanship and The Use of Projective Identification

23. Sublimation, Creativity, and Fun in Sports

24. Joking, Laughter, and Banter as Helpful Defenses in Sports

25. Using 'Identification with The Aggressor' to Overcome Anxiety

26. Altruism and Sportsmanship

Part 5: Case Studies of The Way Birth Order Influences an Athlete's Performance

27. The First-Born Child, The Scars of Dethronement and Fear of Failure

28. The Middle Child Syndrome in a Baseball Player with The Throwing Yips

29. A Tennis Player Who Was Youngest in The Family and Who Took Pity on Weaker Opponents

30. The Influence of Twinship on Personality and Performance

Part 6: Odds and Ends

31. An Athlete's Dream Analysis

32. Focus and Learning Problems in Athletes

33. The Psychological Causes of Sports Injuries

34. Resistance to Sport Psychology: What are Athletes so Afraid of?

35. The Self-Conscious Golfer Unable to Handle Fame

36. What it is like to Work with A Super Star and The Problem of Countertransference

Part 7: Conclusion

37. The Coming Paradigm Shift in Sport Psychology