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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Other Authors: Atkinson, Michael, 1971- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
Series: Research in the sociology of sport ; v. 11.
Subjects:
Sports > Psychological aspects.
Sports > Sociological aspects.
Mental illness.
Social Science > Sociology > General.
Sociology & anthropology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781787434691 (e-book)
9781787439559 (ePUB)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) ; cm.

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500 |a Includes index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a 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 the pervasiveness of mental illness in high performance sport, relatively little is known, sociologically, about what mental illness culturally means inside sport. This edited collection showcases research on how sport, as a social institution, may actually produce dangerous cultural practices and contexts that foster the development of mental illness within athlete groups. Further, chapters also illustrate how sport, when organized with sensitivity and care, may serve to help manage mental illnesses. Rather than analyzing mental illness as an individual phenomenon, contributors to this volume equally attest to how mental illness is socially developed, constructed, managed, and culturally understood within sport settings. The book highlights the relevance of a range of theories pertinent to the social study of mental illness including dramaturgy, cultural studies, learning theory, symbolic interaction, existentialism, and total pain theory. Chapters range from the discussion of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, drug addiction, epilepsy, mental trauma, stigma, the mass mediationof mental illness, and the promise of sport as a vehicle for personal and collective recovery.  
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