Stanley H. Teitelbaum's Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols PDF

By Stanley H. Teitelbaum

ISBN-10: 0803216440

ISBN-13: 9780803216440

ISBN-10: 0803244452

ISBN-13: 9780803244450

On the courtroom and at the box they're the world’s winners, showing a typical grace and prowess their adoring fanatics can basically dream approximately. but so frequently, off the sphere our activities heroes lose their standpoint, their stability, and eventually their position. In a piece as well timed because the most up-to-date fracas at the basketball courtroom or the newest drug-induced scandal within the dugout, Stanley H. Teitelbaum seems to be into the situations in the back of many famous person athletes’ precipitous fall from grace.
 
In his psychotherapy perform, Teitelbaum has labored broadly with specialist athletes and activities agents—work he attracts on the following for perception into the psyche of activities figures and the off-the-field demanding situations they face. contemplating either historic and present instances, he exhibits how, regularly, the very elements that bring up athletes to superstardom give a contribution to their downfall. An evenhanded and sincere examine athletes who've faltered, Teitelbaum’s paintings is helping us see previous our activities stars’ exalted pictures into what these images—and their frailty—say approximately our society and ourselves.

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