This new study presents the life stories of real elite athletes alongside careful analysis in order to better understand the experience of living in sport. Drawing on psychology, sociology, counselling and psychotherapy, and on narrative research in sports as diverse as golf, athletics, judo and hockey, the book explores the ways in which the culture of sport interacts with the mental health, development and identity of professional sports people in highly pressurised environments. The book makes a call for strategies to minimise distress for athletes, for support to be tailored across different life phases, and highlights the benefits in terms of athlete well-being and improved performance.
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Kitrina Douglas is Director of the boomerang-project.org.uk, an ambassador for the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE), a member of the National Anti-Doping Panel for Sport, has a visiting fellowship at the University of Bristol, UK and a .2 contract at Leeds Beckett University. She played elite and professional golf for twenty years, was British amateur, English Open and twice European Masters Champion. For a decade she was a member of the BBC's 'Radio five live' award winning outside broadcasting team.
David Carless is a professor at the Research Institute of Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His research uses narrative, performative and arts-based methods to understand how identity and mental health can be developed or threatened through sport and physical activity
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