A half-day online talk by Joy Schaverien for the Forum for Independent Psychotherapists developing some of the themes associated with Boarding School Syndrome, with reference to the experiences of women who grew up within an often unsympathetic, and male identified institution. These women may only realise late in life how powerfully they were impacted by boarding school.
Times - 10.15 to 13.00
FiP Members - free (booking through the FiP website)
Non-FiP Members - £55.00
Booking - here.
In her book Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the “Privileged” Child, Joy Schaverien identified a cluster of symptoms and behaviours, which she classified as Boarding School Syndrome. In a recent article, Revisiting Boarding School Syndrome she has documented the ‘anatomy’, the ABC-D, of this trauma. For younger women in mixed sex schools the problems encountered may be different from those of women who attended single sex schools. These may include sexual pressure from the peer group and epidemics of eating disorders. It is hoped to have lively discussion.
About the Speaker Professor Joy Schaverien PhD is a Jungian psychoanalyst, a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology. She has published extensively on Boarding School Syndrome including two of her books: The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy (2020) and her best seller: Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the ‘Privileged” Child (2015). Her paper Revisiting Boarding School Syndrome: The Anatomy of Psychological Traumas and Sexual Abuse was published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy in November 2021.