Boarding school: the trauma of the ‘privileged’ child – Sending young children to boarding school may be considered a particularly British form of child abuse and social control. The trauma of the rupture with home may be followed by other ordeals such as emotional deprivation and, in extreme cases, physical and […]

Boarding School Syndrome: Disguised Attachment-deficit and Disassociation Reinforced by Institutional Neglect and Abuse – This paper is based on a talk given at the invitation of the Inner City Centre Psychotherapy Charity in 2013.

Boarding School Syndrome: Broken Attachments A Hidden Trauma – The aim of this paper is to identify a cluster of symptoms and behaviors, which I am proposing be classified as ‘Boarding School Syndrome’. These patterns are observable in many of the adult patients, with a history of early boarding, who come […]

Balanced, Avoidant, or Preoccupied? – Following a review of the assessment of attachment methodologies, this research utilized the Adult Attachment Interview with twenty-six people who were educated at independent fee-paying schools: fourteen ex-boarding school and twelve ex-day school adults. Their attachment strategies were classified according to the Dynamic Maturational Model of […]