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Deisler, Football and Depression
I’d like to thank Rob Marrs for putting me onto this particular story. I don’t follow European football particularly well, and the Deisler situation had completely passed me by. I doubt very much I...
View ArticleScotland’s National Team: Eleven Impossible Jobs, Plus Substitutes
The first thing Capello said on becoming England manager was that when an Englishman pulled on his international shirt, he lost all the confidence he felt at his club: he played in fear. The task for...
View ArticleDoes it matter if Sport Psychology is Cod Psychology?
Usually, it starts with an email: “James/Hi James/Dear James: I’ve been reading some sport psychology textbooks and it’s all rubbish. Please could you point me to the real deal?” These emails are hard...
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Seligman & Layard: Positive Psychology in Politics
This post is in response to part of Metatone’s comment on my earlier post here Sport got there first, of course, and got there many decades earlier. Even before Freud and Kraepelin had begun...
View ArticleTalk Therapy, Sympathy and Meaning
Metatone raised three questions in comments on my earlier post here : 1. Is the common factor in talk therapies that work the regular contact with a relatively non-judgemental/sympathetic person who...
View ArticleThe Brain and Mind: A Short Annotated Reading List
I’ve put together reading lists before – see here. This one will overlap the earlier list, but is meant to provide a number of quick but intelligent ways into the whole brain/mind/therapy/neuroscience...
View ArticleWorld Cup 2018: Remembering My Russian
When I heard the news that the Russian Federation would host the 2018 World Cup despite a near-perfect bid from England, I remembered my Russian. My Russian was one of the very few great men I consider...
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The 14 Year Rule: Football Management and Career Length
Sir Bobby Robson (Ipswich Town 1969-1982) This weekend, Sir Alex Ferguson will surpass Sir Matt Busby’s record as the longest serving manager in Manchester United history. He’ll go on to serve his full...
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Meeting Simon Clifford
I don’t have heroes. Certainly, I don’t have footballing ones: any heroism that footballers have committed has been tangental to the actual game. Harry Gregg, yes. Bryan Robson, no. But for all that,...
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Self Help Summitry and Class
Norman Vincent Peale In January, London’s School of Life held what it called “The Self Help Summit.” The Summit, culmination of years of psychotherapists’ frustration at what they call the Self Help...
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