Intrapsychic Adaptation to Athletic Retirement

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  • Nakagomi Shiro
    Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba

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  • 競技引退後の精神内界の適応
  • キョウギ インタイ ゴ ノ セイシン ナイカイ ノ テキオウ

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Athletic retirement is not limited to being a crisis; it can also be an opportunity for psychosocial development and transition. In this paper, the internal changes which took place during the adaptation process in a retired world-class athlete are discussed after being revealed in the client's dreams and pictures (Landscape Montage Technique) by psychotherapy.<br>Hashi-san (assumed name) was a world-class athlete of an individual sport (for confidentiality reasons, no specific details can be given). Hashi-san qualified for many consecutive appearances in a top international competitive event and won a medal on each occasion. Over a period of several years, psychological support for Hashi-san took place once a week for 60 min. For the first two years, the focus was on mental training, with an aim to improve Hashi-san's competitive spirit. This support lasted for 73 sessions until Hashi-san's final international competition. <br>This paper focuses on approximately 80 psychotherapy sessions for athletic retirement which took place after the mental training sessions. The psychotherapy sessions can be divided into four periods: coping with retirement; stagnation and depression; self discovery; and returning to the athletic field as a coach.<br>The following internal changes in the adaptation process after athletic retirement were identified: 1. retirement ceremony, mourning; 2. self discovery, intrapsychic development; and 3. connecting past and future, self consistency. The three post-retirement periods constitute psychological tasks, which can be used as the basis for a working hypothesis for future athletic retirement research that can be applied to top athletes who have previously committed their lives to their sport.

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