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Shooting in "The Zone"

By James A. Swan, Ph.D.
Author"In Defense of Hunting"

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

I don't know about you, but I felt a lot of the commentary during the recent Olympic Games was pretty superficial and inane. Especially upsetting was the coverage (or lack of coverage) of sports psychology. Periodically commentators would remark that an athlete had used a sports psychologist in their training, but that's about it. Since people normally don't go to see a psychologist when they're healthy, the failure to explain the practice of modern sports psychology conjures up all kinds of neg ...

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