the Fresno case: a dead family is why academies must staff a shrink
it’s one historical reason why all accredited tennis academies have to have a Ph.D.-level counselor on full-time staff, to screen student athletes for their possibly lethal reactions to ever actually reaching the level they’ve been pointed at for years.
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The Fresno case — a junior who wins the big tournament and is dead of cyanide by morning — gets institutionalized into policy: "one historical reason why all accredited tennis academies have to have a Ph.D.-level counselor on full-time staff, to screen student athletes for their possibly lethal reactions to ever actually reaching the level they’ve been pointed at for years." The institution's answer to goal-attainment trauma is bureaucratic — a mandated Ph.D. on staff — and the phrase "possibly lethal reactions to ever actually reaching the level" is the whole warning in administrative deadpan: success is a documented occupational hazard the academy is legally required to screen for. (The cyanide cascade itself is depression-anhedonia's.)