Wounded Healers

Vulnerability: Ripples From Reflections on Mental Toughness

The Sport Psychologist ◽

10.1123/tsp.2016-0034 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 299-307 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Mark A. Uphill ◽

Brian Hemmings

Keyword(s):

Sport Psychology ◽

Critical Reflection ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Mental Toughness ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Current Thinking ◽

Survivor Bias ◽

Creative Analytic Practice ◽

The Invisible ◽

Wounded Healers

The aim of this paper is to present a critical reflection on mental toughness using a creative analytic practice. In particular, we move from intrapersonal technical reflections to an altogether more interpersonal cultural analysis that (re)considers some of the assumptions that can underpin sport psychology practice. Specifically, in the ripples that extend from these initial technical reflections, we argue that it is important to understand vulnerability, and consider (a) wounded healers, (b) the ideology of individualism, and (c) the survivor bias to help make sense of current thinking and applied practice. Emerging from these ripples are a number of implications (naming elephants, tellability, neoliberalism) from which sport psychologists may reflect upon to enhance their own practice. In making visible the invisible, we conclude that vulnerability can no longer be ignored in sport psychology discourse, research, and practice. Should this story of vulnerability resonate, we encourage you, where appropriate to share this story.

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Five Minutes a Day to an Upgraded Therapy Practice ◽

10.4324/9781003125082-107 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 239-240

Author(s):

Stephanie Ellis

Keyword(s):

Wounded Healers

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Conclusion

Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190880835.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 133-138

Author(s):

Andrew Skotnicki

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Human Spirit ◽

Wounded Healers ◽

The Revolution

The revolution needed in criminal justice begins with the sense that in the human drama to varying degrees all are sacred and all are villains. This universal human contradiction is reconciled through conversion–the expansion of intellectual, moral, and spiritual vision to include to an ever–widening degree everyone and everything. No one ever needs to be punished to achieve this level of integrity since the longing for participation and full communion is a property of the human spirit. Thus, the only persons who need criminal detention are the wilfully violent and predatory-not for the purpose of punishment but as members of a community of wounded healers who are loved into sociability.

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