Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege: A guide to therapeutic work with boarding school survivors [Paperback]

Foreword  Part 1 Recognition  Chapter 1 Introduction  Chapter 2 What Therapists Can Do: an overview  Chapter 3 Managing Separation and Loss  Chapter 4 Survival  Chapter 5 Signs, Symptoms and Relationship Issues   Part 2 Acceptance  Chapter 6 Remembering  Chapter 7 Adapting  Chapter 8 Trauma  Chapter 9 Sex: Puberty, Gender, and Abuse  Part 3 Change  Chapter 10 The Healing Process  Chapter 11 Unmasking Survival Patterns  Chapter 12 Homecoming  Postscript Boarding in the 21st Century  Appendix Useful Organisations

This book alerts psychotherapists to the hidden emotional trauma of boarding school. Case histories show how deceptive appearances can be. Many boarding children grow up with chronic anxiety, despite leading busy, conscientious, adult lives; they struggle with close relationships having learnt to dissociate and to project disowned feelings onto others. A helpful addition to a growing literature on this peculiar aspect of British life.  Sue Gerhardt, author of Why Love Matters and The Selfish Society

British independent boarding schools are frequently seen as the envy of the world. This provocative book  based on twenty-five years of therapeutic practice  suggests that far from being models of excellence, they are thel“(