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Sports psychiatry

posted at 10/8/2012 9:38 PM BST on bmj.com

resh321

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Hi all

I'm not a particularly prolific poster on here but I've just started a core psychiatry training post which I am really enjoying.

I am also beginning to explore potential specialities as obviously I need to start shaping my CV over the next 3 years. Sports psychiatry is something I've thought about for a while (especially with the spotlight on depression in football over the last few years) and is something which I have become increasingly interested in since (in part, no doubt, due to the 'olympic atmosphere' the country has been taken over by in the past few days).

My question is whether sports psychiatry is a recognised speciality in the UK? Google searches bring up the International Society for Sports Psychiatry but not much else, and certainly nothing in the UK. It is not currently a recognised subsection of the RCPsych. Is this relatively new and emerging specialty a realistic career choice or am I better off specialising in Gen Adult (which I am also really interested in) and potentially dual specialise later on or have a 'special interest' in sports psych?

Anyone know anyone specialising or considering specialising in this area or have any advice? Thanks!

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Re: Sports psychiatry

posted at 15/8/2012 4:40 PM BST on bmj.com

alicelomax

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Last: 18/5/2013

Hi Resh321 and welcome to psychiatry! Sports psychiatry isn't a big specialty in the UK but (especially with the Olympics) there is a move to change this.

Germany (Valentin Markser has written a lot if your literature search) and the US tend to do more of it. This resource is quite useful: http://sportspsychiatry.org/

Did you see Steve Peters, the Team GB Cycling team psychiatrist on the TV over the coverage of the Olympics? He was annoyingly referred to as a psychologist severeal times by the BBC but he is a consultant psychiatrist and people including Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton have publicly spoken about seeing him and their mental health. I heard him speak about his career, and how he had got to where he is today at the RCPsych general adult and community psychiatry conference and he seemed to have kind of fallen into it from working as a general adult psychiatrist near the velodrome in Manchester where the GB team is based.

Steve Peters spoke about his career in The Psychiatrist: http://pb.rcpsych.org/content/32/12/480.full

He also has a book out http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Chimp-Paradox-Management-Confidence/dp/009193558X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345044459&sr=8-1 and more info is here: http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/article/gbr20120301-gb-cyclingteam-news-Managing-the-chimp---Interview--Great-Britain-Cycling-Team-Psychiatrist-Steve-Peters-0

In the same conference I heard Alan Currie speak, who is an eating disorders psychiatrist in Tyen and Wear. His email on the sportspsychiatry.org website is:

wylamcurries@btinternet.com

- why not contact him and see if you can get involved in some research etc.?

In terms of speciality I would go for general adult as your CCT, with addictions, eating disorders, liaison psych - those sorts of things, as jobs.

You could suggest (with some support) a new RCPsych special interest group, which is the first stage in being a specialty, although to me it kind of fits with occupational psychiatry, for whic a 'SiG' has already been set up and you could join - http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/draft%20SIG%20flyer%20for%20liaison%20conference.pdf.

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Re: Sports psychiatry

posted at 17/8/2012 1:08 PM BST on bmj.com

resh321

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First: 20/7/2011
Last: 3/2/2013

Hi Alice, thanks for the welcome!

I didn't see the Steve Peters coverage but will definitely have a look at the links you recommended and get in contact with Alan Currie, sounds like a good place to start!

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