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Inside Sport Psychology

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Inside Sport Psychology Available November 2010

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Costas Karageorghis ISBN 978-0-7360-3329-9
Peter Terry £17·99 / €19·80

In Inside Sport Psychology Dr Costas Karageorghis and

Professor Peter Terry present a comprehensive guide to using
mental training to maximize sport performance. The authors’
applied work has been featured in top newspapers, including
The Times (London), The Independent, The New York Times and
The Wall Street Journal. They have served as consultants to
hundreds of athletes at the Olympic and World Championship
level, as well as to a number of blue-chip companies.
Presented in a user-friendly format, the guide covers key
aspects of sport psychology, including the most effective
methods for enhancing performance and preparing mentally for
important competitions. Integrating up-to-date research findings
with real-life events, the authors include psychological principles
associated with over 20 sports, including soccer, rugby, tennis,
golf, shooting and track and field. Mental imagery is discussed
and a wide variety of visualization exercises included. Tips are
given to help athletes adopt a positive mental attitude, as well as
how to manage fluctuations in mood to maintain consistency in
their performance.
Inside Sport Psychology demonstrates how to apply
psychology in a range of sport settings by offering an accessible
and evidence-based approach. Explaining what works and what
doesn’t, it is an ideal resource for athletes and coaches wishing
to incorporate sport psychology into training and competition.

‘I studied sport psychology under Costas and Peter in the Chapters

four-year period before I won the superheavyweight gold at the 1. Sport Psychology Applications
Sydney Olympics. Since then I’ve enjoyed many high points and 2. The Secrets of Motivation
experienced a few low points in my professional career, but the 3. Boosting Self-confidence
principles that those guys taught me while I was at Brunel have 4. Anxiety: Friend or Foe?
always stayed with me. When I damaged my right shoulder and 5. Mood and Emotions
came back against the odds in the 11th to knock out Michael 6. Master of Concentration
Sprott for the European title, I was thinking “stay calm, focus on 7. Visualization and Self-Hypnosis
the here and now” just like I was taught all those years ago. 8. The Power of Sound
I knew it was my time to shine again!’

—Audley Harrison, MBE Current European heavyweight

boxing champion, former Commonwealth and Olympic
superheavyweight boxing champion

‘While at Brunel I studied sport psychology with both authors.

During that period I learned techniques to improve my mental
strength and composure under pressure. With the advent of
professionalism at the time, those skills put me ahead of my
peers. I realized that without psychological preparation, my
physical attributes were insufficient. I realized that it was
necessary to push myself toward the goals of becoming an
international player and, ultimately, of winning the World Cup
with England in 2003.’

—Richard Hill, MBE Former rugby union player for the England
national team (71 caps) and British and Irish Lions (5 caps), 2003
World Cup winner with England

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About the Authors

Costas Karageorghis Peter Terry

Costas is a reader in sport psychology and deputy head Peter is a professor of psychology, a registered psychologist and
(research) of the School of Sport and Education at Brunel former head of the department of psychology at the University
University in west London. He was also a visiting lecturer at of Southern Queensland in Australia. He is one of the most
the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2009. He is a double- renowned and respected practitioners of applied sport psychology
accredited sport psychologist (scientific support and research) in the world, having attended 8 Olympic Games and more than
with the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and 90 other major international events as a consultant over the past
a chartered sport and exercise psychologist with the British 25 years.
Psychological Society. Peter is past president of the Australian Psychological
Costas is best known for spearheading the launch of the Society’s College of Sport Psychologists and a member of the
Run to the Beat series of half-marathons set to music in the UK managing council of the Asian South Pacific Association of
and across mainland Europe (see www.runtothebeat.co.uk) in Sport Psychology. He was a founding member of the British
collaboration with the International Management Group (IMG). Olympic Association’s psychology advisory board, a long-time
He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles on sport advisor to the Women’s Tennis Association, and psychology
psychology and has worked as a consultant psychologist with coordinator for the Queensland Academy of Sport. He is a fellow
many national governing bodies of sport in the UK. Costas has of both the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences
also contributed to more than 100 TV and radio shows in the UK and the Australian Psychological Society.
and around the world. Peter has authored three books on applied sport psychology
Costas’s main sporting interest is track and field athletics. He as well as more than 150 scholarly articles. His research areas
led Brunel University to seven British Universities championship include mood and emotions, music, coach–athlete relationships
titles as their team manager and in 2007 became head coach and psychometrics. He is often called upon as a media expert
of the British Universities athletics team. He was installed as and his research has been cited on numerous occasions in the
honorary life president of Brunel University Athletics Club in international press.
2004 and honorary life vice-president of Blackheath and Bromley
Harriers Athletics Club in 2008.

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