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The mind games that saw Carlton Cole become a lion

Sports psychologist DAN ABRAHAMS explains how he helped the West Ham and England striker...

By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES

THE BRITISH seem to have an inbuilt aversion to psychology. If we have a bad tooth, we go a dentist. An ingrowing toenail can be cured by a chirpodist. A few visits to an osteopath and that bad back becomes history. Yet if we have a problem in our mind, whatever it may be, too often the misguided response is: "sort yourself out." To see a psychologist or a counsellor still carries a certain stigma, despite the ignorance of such views.

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