Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege

Author: Nick Duffell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317642600
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege discusses how ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists; even experienced therapists may unwittingly struggle to skilfully address the needs of this client group. It looks at the effect on adults of being sent away to board in childhood and the problems associated with boarding, which have only recently been acknowledged by mainstream mental health professionals. This practice-based book is illustrated by case studies, diagrams and exercises and is divided into three parts: ‘Recognition; Acceptance; Change’. It aims to help readers understand the emotional processes of boarding and the psychological aspects of survival, outlining the steps toward recovery and the repercussions of survival. The book also explores how ex-boarders frequently struggle with intimate relationships with spouses and partners and offers interventions and strategies for those working with ex-boarder clients. Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege will be of interest to therapists, counsellors and mental health workers across the UK. It will also be relevant to those who are well acquainted with boarding schools based on the UK model, for example in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege

Author: Nick Duffell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317642619
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Boarding School Syndrome

Author: Joy Schaverien
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317506588
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Book Description
Boarding School Syndrome is an analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age. Innovative and challenging, Joy Schaverien offers a psychological analysis of the long-established British and colonial preparatory and public boarding school tradition. Richly illustrated with pictures and the narratives of adult ex-boarders in psychotherapy, the book demonstrates how some forms of enduring distress in adult life may be traced back to the early losses of home and family. Developed from clinical research and informed by attachment and child development theories ‘Boarding School Syndrome’ is a new term that offers a theoretical framework on which the psychotherapeutic treatment of ex-boarders may build. Divided into four parts, History: In the Name of Privilege; Exile and Healing; Broken Attachments: A Hidden Trauma, and The Boarding School Body, the book includes vivid case studies of ex-boarders in psychotherapy. Their accounts reveal details of the suffering endured: loss, bereavement and captivity are sometimes compounded by physical, sexual and psychological abuse. Here, Joy Schaverien shows how many boarders adopt unconscious coping strategies including dissociative amnesia resulting in a psychological split between the 'home self' and the 'boarding school self'. This pattern may continue into adult life, causing difficulties in intimate relationships, generalized depression and separation anxiety amongst other forms of psychological distress. Boarding School Syndrome demonstrates how boarding school may damage those it is meant to be a reward and discusses the wider implications of this tradition. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, Jungian analysts, psychotherapists, art psychotherapists, counsellors and others interested in the psychological, cultural and international legacy of this tradition including ex-boarders and their partners.

Wounded Leaders

Author: Nick Duffell
Publisher: Lone Arrow Press Limited
ISBN: 1843964236
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Political leaders in Britain are consistently drawn from a class born to be educated away from their families in institutions - elite boarding schools. This has a direct effect on their ability to love, to relate, to make good judgments and to develop the necessary leadership qualities for today's world. In this controversial and highly acclaimed book, the author guides the reader along the elite path through boarding school and Oxbridge to government, unpacking what he calls the Entitlement Illusion. Central to the Illusion is a uniquely British phenomenon, an industrialised process for turning out servants of the Empire that has been unwilling to change with the times. It was deified in the Victorian Rational Man Project and normalised by the British public, who still buy into the trance. Up to date evidence from Neuroscience shows what a poor training for leadership this actually is.

Understanding and Using Challenging Educational Theories

Author: Karl Aubrey
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1529738083
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 453

Book Description
Introducing you to 18 key educational thinkers who have offered challenging perspectives on education, this new edition comes with: - 3 new chapters on Ivan Illich, Loris Malaguzzi and Michael Apple - A glossary of key words related to each theorist’s work - A context-setting overview of key themes - Practical examples that shows how theories can be applied to your practice Use this book with it′s companion title Aubrey & Riley, Understanding and Using Educational Theories 2e (9781526436610)

The Making of Them

Author: Nick Duffell
Publisher: Lone Arrow Press
ISBN: 9780953790401
Category : Boarding school students
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description

Sex, Love and the Dangers of Intimacy

Author: Helena Lovendale
Publisher: Lone Arrow Press
ISBN: 9780007100897
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Case studies offer insight into how to make relationships work. Each chapter contains such exercises as breathing exercises, making a timeline of the relationship, and thoughts to ponder.

Hope for Survivors of Childhood Traum

Author: Susan M. Conord
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1607913836
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
"If you have grown up with alcoholism, severe neglect or other family dysfunction, then reading Susan's story and working through Ebenezer is an excellent way to recover and experience God's healing mercies."-Mark C. Good, Ph.D., Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work "The Ebenezer materials brought about more soul repair than any number of books and therapy sessions had ever accomplished for me in the past."-Ebenezer Program graduate "Ebenezer described exactly what I'd lived growing up, severe dysfunction at home. I was a very wounded woman. Some of us have our broken pieces crushed. Ebenezer ministered to me in such deep places. Jesus met me there and gave me balm."-Ebenezer Program graduate HOPE for Survivors of Childhood Trauma is both a moving story and a life-changing program. The story of recovery resonates with trauma, fear, abandonment, love and laughter, confusion and loneliness. The Ebenezer Program is a manual for counselors, pastors, study leaders or individuals. It addresses the nature and effects of childhood trauma and offers hope for healing. This book will equip you to explore: - Shame - Perfectionism - Grieving - Loneliness, Trust and Control Issues - Our Struggle for Intimacy - How Our Past Affects Our Marriage - Forgiving and Growing Up - Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors - Boundaries SUSAN CONORD is an inspirational Bible Study teacher and a popular speaker at church retreats and recovery group meetings. More importantly she is a survivor of childhood trauma. Through her own recovery and her study of the Bible and family systems, she has developed the Ebenezer Program, leading groups and coaching women in their recovery. She lives in Maryland with her husband and has been blessed with three married children and seven grandchildren.

Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives

Author: Christine Jack
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000061094
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives: Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healing is a unique, emotive and theorised narrative of a young girl’s experience of boarding school in Australia. Christine Jack traces its impact on the emerging identity of the child, including sexual development and emotional capacity, the transmission of trauma into adulthood and the long process of recovery. Interweaving her story with the experiences of Christopher Robin Milne, she presents her memoir as an exemplar of how narrative writing can be employed in remembering and recovering from traumatic experiences. Unique and powerfully written, Jack takes the reader on a journey into her childhood in Australian boarding school convents in the 1950s and 1960s. Comparing her experience with Christopher Robin Milne’s, she interrogates his memoirs, illustrating that boarding school trauma knows no boundaries of time and place. She investigates their emerging individuality before being sent to live an institutional life and traces their feelings of longing and loneliness as well as the impact of the abuse each endured there. As an educational historian, Jack writes in a ground-breaking way from the perspective of an insider and outsider, revealing how trauma remains in the unconscious, wielding power over the life of the adult, until the traumatic memories are recovered, emotions released and associated dysfunctional behaviour changed, restoring well-being. Engaging the lenses of history, life-span and Jungian psychology, feminist and trauma theory and boarding school trauma research, this book positions narrative writing as a way of reducing the power of trauma over the lives of survivors. Personal and accessible, this book will be essential reading for psychologists and educational historians, as well as students and academics of psychology, sociology, trauma studies, ex-boarders and those interested in the life of Christopher Robin Milne.

Abandoned Parents

Author: Sharon A. Wildey
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781500973704
Category : Abused parents
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Adult children who abandon their parents are becoming an issue around the globe. This book is about the causes and consequences. It seeks to authenticate the injury of ostracism to parents and offer a framework for discussion of the issues.