Boarding School Syndrome

Balanced, Avoidant, or Preoccupied? – Attachment strategies of adults who attended independent boarding schools compared to those who attended independent day schools
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’.
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: 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 within a home may be followed by other ordeals such as emotional deprivation and, in extreme cases, physical and sexual abuse.