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The first, ever, sports psychiatry case-study book, blending athletes' experience with evidence-based, expert clinical guidance.
400 practice Single Best Answer questions that accurately reflect the Membership of Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine curriculum. Written by over 90 international experts, each answer has a detailed explanation for revision.
Evidence shows that exercise, talking therapies and breath work should be used first to treat anxiety, depression and addiction. The therapy in this manual combines aspects of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, psychoanalysis and life coaching. The breath work combines meditation, mindfulness and yoga. Being active daily is good for both your mental and physical health, but getting motivated is hard when you are not feeling mentally strong.This manual is designed to be used alongside the 12 week online programme. Dr Claire, Lucy and Nicola use their experience to bring you an accessible programme, and to support you through it. We aim to help you gain mental strength through physical health.This manual is designed to complement the online programme, which can be found at www.cognitivesportstherapy.com.
This book has it all - written by national and international experts and edited by world authorities, it is the first book on sport psychiatry in over a decade. Dealing with psychopathology, mental health problems and clinical management, it differs markedly from sports psychology books that focus on performance issues. Eating disorders, exercise addiction, drug abuse are all problems that are seen in 'everyday' athletes, not just elite performers. This book shows how to help. This text covers the most important topics in contemporary sports psychiatry/psychology from an international perspective. Chapter authors are experts in the field and global leaders in the related professional organiz...
An exploration of the transformative power of running - and how it can be the key to unlocking resilience we never knew we had, told through 34 deeply affecting real-life stories and covering such diverse themes as trauma, bereavement, addiction, depression and anxiety
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time.
A practical and clinical introduction for those new to working in the field of eating disorders.
This Handbook represents the first concerted effort to understand male mental health in a way that facilitates a positive step forward in both theory and treatment. An alarming number of men experience serious mental health issues, as demonstrated by high rates of suicide and violent offending. Despite these problems, the study of male psychology has either been overlooked, or viewed as a problem of defective masculinity. This handbook brings together experts from across the world to discuss men’s mental health, from prenatal development, through childhood, adolescence, and fatherhood. Men and masculinity are explored from multiple perspectives including evolutionary, cross-cultural, cogni...
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Writing Across Worlds brings together a selection of interviews with major international writers previously featured in the pages of the magazine. Conducted by a wide constituency of distinguished critics, writers and journalists, the interviews offer a unique insight into the views and work of a remarkable array of acclaimed authors. They also chart a slow but certain cultural shift: those once seen as 'other' have not only won many of the establishment's most revered literary prizes but have also become central figures in contemporary literature, writing across and into all our real and imagined worlds. With an introductory comment by Susheila Nasta, editor of Wasafiri, this collection is ...