Sportpsychiatric aspects of parasports

Abstract

The Olympic Games tradition dates back to antiquity. And we learned the quote “mens sana in corpore sano est” coming from that period. It became a paradigm in the western world, undermining any efforts of psychiatric relevance in high performance sports. With world renowned athletes himself as suffering from depression, things began to move; nowadays, sport psychiatry has moved from a theoretical option to an accepted necessity in elite sports [1]. Nonetheless, there is a remarkable lack of studies on this subject [2].