The ISSP Manual of Sports Psychiatry is the first text describing the role of a sports psychiatrist. Covering both individual as well as team sports, contact and non-contact, from childhood through late adulthood, the manual describes the role of sports in our culture. It details the psychiatric interventions associated with players and their teams.
Key Features
- Comprehensive coverage of both individual and team sports.
- Focus on psychiatric interventions for players and teams.
- Broad topics including neuroscience, performance enhancement, and team dynamics.
- Valuable resource for medical and psychiatric professionals, athletes, and sports enthusiasts.
Additional Information
The editors take a broad focus, covering topics from neuroscience-psychiatric and psychological aspects, performance enhancement, team chemistry and dynamics, organizational issues to working with medical, orthopedic/surgical and neurologic colleagues to provide comprehensive prevention and treatment to enhance well-being and performance. This text will be invaluable to medical and psychiatric physicians, psychologists and other mental health professionals, as well as athletes, trainers, leagues and their commissioners, sports writers—and even "fans" anxious to understand what is going on with their teams.
