Boarding School: The Trauma of the Privileged Child on Sat 14th March - Limited Places Available
Posted: 12,03,2009
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 physical or sexual abuse. The taboo on expressing emotion, common in such institutions may lead to an encapsulation of the self. Consequently, the needs of the distressed child/self remain active, but unconscious, within the adult. This may become manifest in clinical practice as an emotional conflict between a desire for intimacy and anticipated exile. Changes in the frame and breaks are points at which vigilance is required if analysis is not to end in its abrupt termination. This paper will develop some of the ideas from an earlier article with the same title.
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