Chris Oakley is a psychoanalyst in private practice. When not working he spends his time attending football matches all over the world. Библиографические данные.

It would appear that soccer (football) has claws, for the world as we know it is possessed. For many what is in play is seizure, rapture, demonic possession, frenzy, delirium, in more or less manageable doses. Chris Oakley is a psychoanalyst in private practice.

Football Delirium book. Details (if other): Cancel. Thanks for telling us about the problem. It would appear that soccer (football) has claws, for the world as we know it is possessed.

Author(s) : Chris Oakley. Publisher : Karnac Books. In the tradition of Adam Phillips and Darian Leader, Chris Oakley shines his spotlight on the world of football and with wit and erudition looks at the question of why there is this worldwide preoccupation with football. Does anybody have the answer? This book argues that football offers us the possibility of manageable doses of self-elected madness. A madness that is essential for a sane life.

This book is a set of wonderfully subtle and free-wheeling interwoven stories about psychoanalysis and football, and what they might have to say to each other, arguing that football offers us the possibility of manageable doses of self-elected madness. Psychology Nonfiction. Publisher: Taylor and Francis.

Chris Buckley is a correspondent covering China, where he has lived for more than 20 years after growing up in Australia. Before joining The Times in 2012, he was a correspondent for Reuters. He attended the University of Sydney, Australian National University and Renmin University in Beijing, where he studied Chinese Communist Party history. Chris Buckley is a correspondent covering China, where he has lived for more than 20 years after growing up in Australia.