Alexander T. Latinjak is a senior lecturer and the course leader of the BSc (Hons) Sport and Performance Psychology at the University of Suffolk, and visiting researcher at the EUSES Schools of Health and Sports Sciences in Catalonia. Although Alexander wrote his dissertation on strategic self-talk interventions for tennis players, he has recently been more intensively involved in the study of spontaneous and goal-directed self-talk. His research led to the design of a reflexive self-talk intervention and the development of a conceptualisation of self-talk based on the distinction between organic and strategic self-talk.

Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis is a professor at the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science at the University of Thessaly, and director of the postgraduate programme Psychology of Physical Education and Sport. His main research interest has been self-talk, on which he has authored more than 35 articles and six book chapters. He is Associate Editor at Sport, Exercise and Sport Psychology, and has served as member of the managing council of the European Federation of Sport and Exercise Psychology for 12 years.

1. Locating self-talk in the knowledge map of sport and exercise psychology

2. Pieces of the self-talk jigsaw puzzle: An introduction

3. Assessment methods for organic self-talk

4. Metacognition and goal-directed self-talk

5. Self-talk and emotion regulation

6. Organic self-talk antecedents: An interpretative review and implications for practice

7. The reflexive self-talk intervention: Detailed procedures

8. Rational self-talk: A rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) perspective

9. Strategic self-talk interventions

10. Self-talk mechanisms

11. Self-talk interventions in tennis and golf

12. Self-talk interventions in team-sport settings

13. Self-talk and endurance sports

14. Self-talk in physical education: Motivational aspects and a guide for physical education teachers

15. Contesting the role of self-talk in sport psychology in views of mindfulness, flow, and mind wandering

Epilogue: Some facts and personal reflections on my self-talk