Angela Patmore

Angela Patmore is a former University of East Anglia research fellow and International Fulbright Scholar. Her analysis of competitive
pressure, Sportsmen Under Stress (1986), was The Times sports books of the year. A former Guadian columnist on the psychology of sport, she writes extensively for newspapers and magazines and has contributed to many television and radio programmes on stress. She served on the Metropolitan Police External Experts stress advisory group under the chairmanship of Sir John Stevens and works as a psychological skills trainer rehabilitating the long-term unemployed. The Truth About Stress was published in 2005.