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Cam McEvoy WINNING OLYMPIC GOLD with IPSA

Cam McKevoy studied for some years under Steve & Pauline Richards’ in: Psycho-Systems Analysis, and its systems and field-based methodologies of Dialectical Syncretism, Informational Monism and Superpositioned Info-Dynamic Field Theory – to develop his own unique and world-beating approach to apex level athletic performance and achievement.  
He is exemplar of achievement in his field and an inspiration to athletes and young people all around the world. 

“That was the light-switch-on moment that led me to further investigate general strength philosophies, general power development philosophies, how I could put that within swimming and within my event,” McEvoy said.

As he looked beyond rock climbing to other sports that are similar to swimming sprints, McEvoy came across the studies of Steven and Pauline Richards. The British psychotherapists developed the informational monism and superposition theory in the 1980s, which analyses how different approaches can lead to similar outcomes.

McEvoy applied that meta model to discover the different ways he could train in his signature 50m freestyle race.”

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/australia-olympic-champion-cameron-mcevoy-revolutionary-swimming-methods-interview

Cameron McEvoy here describes his Gold Medal Olympic training regimen and gives a shout-out to Steve & Pauline Richards and Psycho-Systems Analysis, at 15.23 in this video.  

            Cameron McKevoy 2023 World Champion and Paris 2024 Olympic Gold Medallist

Report on Cam McEvoy’s Gold Medal Performance in the scientific journal: Neuropsychoanalysis
 

Author’s Original Manuscript

 
Steven T Richards (2024). 46th Bulletin of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, Neuropsychoanalysis, DOI: 10.1080/15294145.2024.2426131 
In: Neuropsychonalysis: an interdisciplinary journal for Psychoanalysis and the Neurosciences Routledge and Taylor Francis (pub) November 2024
 
 
Steven and Pauline Richards continued with their seminar series entitled “Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis: Meta-Instincts and the Paleo-Psychology of Mind.” They introduced a ground-breaking case study on the personal application of Jungian neuropsychoanalytic and psycho-systems analytic principles to entraining world champion athletic performances at the World Aquatic Championships in Japan in 2023, and an Olympic Gold Medal winning athletic performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics, by World and Olympic champion Cameron McEvoy (C. McEvoy, personal communication, August 8, 2024).
 
Richards and Richards stated that not only is the evolutionary psychology of mind held in our contemporary genome, brain structure and behavior, but that it is directly accessible through highly conserved and distributed ontological and phylogenetic qualia of superpositioned fields of consciousness. These are consistent with Pankseppian and meta-instincts when approached through altered states of consciousness and clinically controlled dissociation (Panksepp, 1998; Richards & Richards, 2024).
 
To outline the modeling of the paleo-psychology of mind, Richards and Richards began by taking the common ground between Freud’s understanding of our phylogenetic, archaic heritage (Freud, 1900/1957a, 1913/1957b, 1939/1975c), Jung’s concepts of primordial images and archetypes (Jung, 1911/1956) and Jungian analyst Anthony Stevens’ founding paradigm of an ethological-based interpretation of Jung (Stevens, 1982). Their model is further informed by affective neuroscience (Panksepp & Biven, 2012) and neuropsychoanalysis (Solms, 2022). They explained how the linking framework of informational monism and superposition theory from psycho-systems analysis has been used to develop a Jungian based neuropsychoanalysis (Richards, 2023).
 
Richards and Richards then outlined the success of Cameron McEvoy, the 2023 50-meter sprint swimming World Champion and 2024 Paris Olympics Gold Medalist in the same event. McEvoy had sought consultations with them before his victories, on how to organize his mental preparation and training. McEvoy had incorporated the psycho-systems analytic and Jungian neuropsychoanalytic modeling of informational monism, superposition theory, meta-instincts and dialectical syncretism to develop a mental and physical training regimen that allowed him to become the undisputed World and Olympic Champion in his event, and without which he has said that he could not have achieved his success. His athletic victories and innovative training methods were of course all his own, but his account is a very high testimony to the applicability of Jungian neuropsychoanalytic methods beyond the clinical domain (C. McEvoy, personal communication, August 8, 2024). Richards and Richards announced that they were working with Cameron McEvoy on an academic paper detailing the application of neuropsychoanalytic and psycho-systems analytic principles toward achieving World Champion and Olympic Gold Medal success.
 
They concluded with the announcement of their next seminar series on unique Jungian neuropsychoanalytic approaches to trauma therapy.