Applied Psychology Practice in Professional Sport Meeting the Person Knowing the Athlete

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Applied Psychology Practice in Professional Sport is the first text to draw directly on psychological work delivered over many years to individual players and staff inside English Premier League Football as well as other professional sports such as cricket tennis and golf. A key feature of this new text is the use of examples from the author’s applied practice to demonstrate that many psychological terms and words used in the “lived world” of high-level professional sport can be understood with greater depth and meaning where these are informed by more holistic perspectives such as existential phenomenological transpersonal and humanistic psychology. Implications for applied sport psycholog…