Sport, mental illness, and sociology /

At a time when the public discussion of mental illness in society is reaching a highpoint, athletes and other sports insiders remain curiously silent about their private battles with a range of mental illnesses. While a series of professional athletes have exposed the deep, dark secret related to th...

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Weitere Verfasser: Atkinson, Michael, 1971- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Research in the sociology of sport ; v. 11.
Schlagworte:
Sports > Psychological aspects.
Sports > Sociological aspects.
Mental illness.
Social Science > Sociology > General.
Sociology & anthropology.
Šport > Sociologické aspekty
ISBN:9781787434691
ISSN:1476-2854 ;
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Prelims
  • Introduction: mental illness in sport: sociological legacies, absences, and controversies
  • Mental illness stigma
  • Total pain
  • Mental illness and identity intersections: an examination of the complex relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder, physical activity, and women's embodiment
  • Researching trauma in the context of sport
  • Depression and suicide in professional sports work
  • Disordered eating in sport: legitimized and stigmatized
  • Drugs, alcohol, and addiction in sport
  • Invisible disabilities
  • Mass mediation of mental illness in sport
  • Football, healing, and mental health recovery
  • In it for the long run : researching mental health and illness
  • Index.

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