James Loehr, Who Showed Athletes the Power of the Mind, Dies at 83
James Loehr, who was among the first psychologists to bring counseling to sports, coaxing emotions, negative thoughts and self-doubt out of the mental locker room and teaching a generation of athletes the fundamentals of mental toughness, died on April 20 at his home in Golden, Colo. He was 83. The cause was idiopathic peripheral neuropathy,…