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Bruce Ogilvie (1920-2003) was a clinical sport psychologist at San Jose State University.Ogilvie is often referred to as the father of North American applied sport psychology.

Clinical Psychologists and Applied Sport Psychologists
Clinical sport psychologists have training in psychology so that they can detect and treat individuals with emotional disorders. These psychologists also have additional training in sport and exercise psychology and in the sport sciences. An applied sport psychologist uses thier research and findings to help troubled athletes to improve thier mental game. Ogilvie helped to jump start this division of sport psychology because he was one of the first psychologists to apply treatments to athletes.Dr. Ogilvie worked with many accomplished professional and olympic sports teams. He advised teams such as the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Mets, Dallas Cowboys, and the San Francisco 49ers.

Work
In the mid 1970s Dr. Ogilvie tested 250 athletes from a variety of sports including car racing and skydiving. He found that athletes in risky sports such as skydiving and racing have superior intelligence, emotional stability, and independence when compared to the rest of normal population and he found that they make concerted efforts to minimize risks in their sports. Ogilvie also found that sports have individual personalities. For example he found that race car drivers are very driven and need to be in control. Drivers also are abnormally sexually active, this could be to help cope with the stress of their sport. Ogilvie says that fifty percent of people, don't do anything to sweat during the week. He also says that spectating at a football game may not be a passive activity. Dr. Ogilvie studied what happens to people when they watch a football game and the results showed that men exude an extreme amount of testosterone. Also watching a sports event uses psychological and social skills. Ogilvie says that watching sports provides a fantasy escape for most people and is a form of hero modeling. Watching a sporting event also gives a person a sense of social meaning and purpose. It was in 1966 when Ogilvie along with fellow psychologist, Thomas Tutko, wrote Problem Athletes and How to Handle Them. It was also in this year that Ogilvie first began working directly with competitive athletes.

Life
Bruce Ogilvie was born in 1920 and passed away in 2003 at his home in San Jose, California. He received his PhD from the University of London in 1954, in clinical sport psychology. In 1979 he retired from his job at San Jose State University. Dr. Ogilvie is survived by his wife and two children.