Sports Psychology

Sports teams employ psychologists to help improve their performance.

gain confidence, having seen the influence of this treatment for soldiers in the First World War. The Browns, for their part, saw how other industries had employed psychologists to improve performance, and hoped that they could be ahead of the competition by investing in this new type of treatment: I will teach the Browns players to talk to their

arms, so they will feel more limber and strong, and to talk to their legs, so they will feel more speedy and supple. When I have a player under hypnosis, I will tell him the next time he feels nervous he should take two deep breaths, allow his shoulders to slump and he then will feel relaxed. I’ve noticed a certain tenseness among the Browns.

Chapter 2: History and Development of the Field

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