We are talking more and more about our mental health, and this has been enormously positive. It is no longer unusual to see celebrities or politicians referencing the concept.

The first, published in 1999 by President Bill Clinton’s surgeon general Dr. David Satcher, called for a better medical system that would treat both physical and mental health, and end the ...

A detail, resembling a horse's head, in Jackson Pollock's Mural, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2014. Photo by Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

Mental health symptoms and disorders are common among elite athletes, may have sport related manifestations within this population and impair performance. Mental health cannot be separated from ...