Skewed to the Right: Sport, Mental Health and Vulnerability
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2021
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 188
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 95469
- ISBN 13 : 9781912691821
- ISBN 10 : 9781912691
Table of Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Where it all began
Part I - Weight-restricted sport
1. Rowing with Kieren Emery, GB lightweight rower
2. Horseracing with Mark Enright, jockey
Part II - Skewed to the right: personality traits that help and hinder
3. Masochism with Michelle Bergstrand, British cyclo-cross champion
4. Obsessionality with Luke Stoltman, five-times Scotland’s Strongest Man and World’s Strongest Man competitor
5. Focus with Graeme Fowler, England cricketer
Part III - Skewed to the left?
6. Acceptance with Nigel Owens, Welsh international rugby union referee
Part IV - Vulnerability
7. Injury and retirement with Jack Rutter, Paralympian and England cerebral palsy football captain
Conclusion
8. Where do we go from here? with Ruth Walczak, GB lightweight rower, and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Paralympian
Index