Lynn Helding is a professor of Music at Dickinson College.

Helding, Lynn. Break a Leg! The Ironic Effect, Choking, and Other Mind Games. Mindful Voice. Journal of Singing 67, no. 2 (2010): 207-12.

This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit National Association of Teachers of Singing's Website.

The writer explores some mental controls necessary for public performance and presents perspectives from psychologists on what goes awry in the brain when these controls falter.