ISSP Manual of Sports Psychiatry

<p>The ISSP Manual of Sports Psychiatry is the<em> </em>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 and details the psychiatric interventions associated with players and their teams. 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.</p>