Life Story Research In Sport: Understanding The Experiences Of Elite And Professional Athletes Through Narrative (Routledge Research In Sport And Exercise Science)

Kitrina Douglas and David Carless present the life stories of real elite athletes alongside careful analysis and interpretation of those stories in order to better understand the experience of living in sport. Drawing on psychology, sociology, counselling, psychotherapy and narrative theory, and on narrative research in sports as diverse as golf, track and field athletics, judo and hockey, they explore the ways in which the culture of sport interacts with the mental health, development, identity and life trajectories of elite and professional sports people in highly pressurised and sometimes unhealthy environments.

• | Author: Kitrina Douglas|David Carless
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Oct 24, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 284 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415709008
• | ISBN-13: 9780415709002