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Football as a metaphor: learning to cope with life, manage emotional illness and maintain health through to recovery
Author(s) -
JONES A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2009.01403.x
Subject(s) - metaphor , citation , psychology , mental health , football , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , library science , computer science , history , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football. (Albert Camus, 1913– 1960) Albert Camus (1913–1960) was an Algerian philosopher, a novelist and a Nobel Prize winner for literature. Much like his contemporary Jean-Paul Sartre, Camus’ work reflected a philosophy of the absurd together with an understanding of personal alienation and disenchantment with living. Yet qualities of human dignity and social connection also featured as an important part of his belief in conducting life within a schema of human integrity. They are principles which apply to mental health and well-being along with recovery approaches to mental ill-health.