Description:
Boarding School Syndrome is a psychological analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age.
Review Quotes:
"Therapists of all persuasions have been eagerly awaiting Joy Schaverien's book on Boarding School Syndrome. The political, cultural and social significance of individuals that attended such schools is obvious, and the book is a deep contribution to an important public conversation. Yet it is also a compassionate clinical approach to the suffering of such 'privileged' people of both sexes. This beautifully written, lucid and clinically revelatory book is relevant to work with all clients and patients who have been 'looked after' right across the social spectrum - and maybe even to those who have not. A must read work that is going to spark intense discussion within the field - and outside the clinical world as well." - Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex
"In this thoughtful and sensitive analysis, Professor Schaverien skilfully adapts a qualitative clinical research approach to explore the inner world of trauma of the boarding school child, occasioned by too early a rupture of the attachment bond with the mother, and the potentially damaging developmental trajectory brought about by being abandoned into the 'privileged' world of boarding school. Schaverien's exceptional book cogently challenges long held assumptions concerning the value of such an education. She incorporates some of the best of current neurobiological and trauma research to explore the pain and distress of parents as well as child and to offer clinicians valuable insights into the process of healing the minds of adult patients damaged by 'boarding school syndrome'." - Margaret Wilkinson, Training Analyst, The Society of Analytical Psychology, London. Author of Coming into Mind (Routledge, 2006) and Changing Minds in Therapy (Norton, 2010).