Boarding School Syndrome
Boarding School Syndrome

Author: Joy Schaverien

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-05

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1317506588

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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.

Looking for Alaska Deluxe Edition
Looking for Alaska Deluxe Edition

Author: John Green

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-01-13

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0698405870

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A gorgeous collector's edition of the critically acclaimed debut novel by John Green, #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars A perfect gift for every fan, this deluxe hardcover features a stunning special edition jacket and 50 pages of all-new exclusive content, including: - An introduction by John Green - Extensive Q&A: John Green answers readers’ most frequently asked questions - Deleted scenes from the original manuscript ★ Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award ★ A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist ★ A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller ★ NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels ★ TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time ★ A PBS Great American Read Selection NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES! Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction.

Boarding School Blues
Boarding School Blues

Author: Clifford E. Trafzer

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780803294639

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An in depth look at boarding schools and their effect on the Native students.

Boarding School Seasons
Boarding School Seasons

Author: Brenda J. Child

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780803212305

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Looks at the experiences of children at three off-reservation Indian boarding schools in the early years of the twentieth century.

Admissions
Admissions

Author: Kendra James

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2022-01-18

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1538753499

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NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE “[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she — or any Black student, or all Black students — would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I’ve read.”—New York Times A Most Anticipated Book by Vogue.com · Parade · Town & Country · Nylon ·New York Post · Lit Hub · BookRiot · Electric Literature · Glamour · Marie Claire · Publishers Weekly · Bustle · Fodor's Travel· Business Insider · Pop Sugar · InsideHook · SheReads Early on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made—to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America’s inequitable system. In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her lily-white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and the fall-out from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. Through these stories, some troubling, others hilarious, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture. With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness.

The Boarding School Girls
The Boarding School Girls

Author: Soosan Latham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-06

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1351745662

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They were children. Put on a train in a strange land, they waved goodbye to a parent as they headed to an educational institution that, unbeknownst to them, was to become their new home. Separated from their loving families, they strived to meet the expectations of the grownups and, in some cases, to rebel against them. Now, independent women, compassionate mothers, and astute professionals, they look back on their youth in the 1960’s and 1970’s to make sense of why they were sent away, and to give meaning to the sources that have sustained them over the years. Ex-boarders themselves, Latham and Ferdows provide vivid and emotionally embodied narratives of everyday lives of The Boarding School Girls. This unique collection of stories explores key issues of identity and lifespan development to seek understanding of the influence of national, religious and family culture on development within two conflicting sets of cultural values. Combining unique qualitative data with illuminating tales of resilience and accomplishment in what is likely to simultaneously inform and inspire readers with feelings of joy and sadness, love and hate, abandonment and hope, but mainly trust and forgiveness. The stories of eleven ‘little rich’ Persian girls are a nostalgic reminder of their past cross-cultural ordeals, a pragmatic perspective on psychological implications of boarding school education in England, and a celebration of the possibilities of the future. The Boarding School Girls is valuable reading for students in cultural, developmental and educational psychology and the humanities, as well as clinical psychologists and educators looking at the impact of boarding school on adolescent development.

A Body at a Boarding School
A Body at a Boarding School

Author: Benedict Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-30

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781838299248

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Something is rotten at the Oakton Academy for Distinguished Young Gentlemen. With rumours of fighting, cheating, and all-night parties - and that's just the teachers - the headmaster is losing control of the school. When a body is discovered, bludgeoned to death with a monkey statue on the last day of term, renowned detective Lord Edgington and his bumbling grandson Christopher are on hand to search for the killer. But with such a range of despicable suspects, - again, that's just the teachers - plotting prefects and maniacal students to choose from, will the discordant duo be up to the challenge? The second book in the "Lord Edgington Investigates..." mystery series has all the intrigue, humour and twists of its bestselling predecessor, "Murder at the Spring Ball". "A Body at a Boarding School" is a 1920s-style whodunnit in a wonderfully wicked setting with a cast of curious characters to enjoy. Get ready to discover whether the great Lord Edgington can catch the killer and be home in time for afternoon tea.

Pipestone
Pipestone

Author: Adam Fortunate Eagle

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2012-11-09

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0806184256

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A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a “contrary warrior” by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier’s pluralist vision was reshaping the federal boarding school system to promote greater respect for Native cultures and traditions. But this book is hardly a dry history of the late boarding school era. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a delightful journey into his childhood and the inner world of the boarding school. Along the way, he shares anecdotes of dormitory culture, student pranks, and warrior games. Although Fortunate Eagle recognizes Pipestone’s shortcomings, he describes his time there as nothing less than “a little bit of heaven.” Were all Indian boarding schools the dispiriting places that history has suggested? This book allows readers to decide for themselves.

American Prep
American Prep

Author: Ronald Mangravite

Publisher: Mango Media Inc.

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1633534901

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This complete guide to American prep schools covers the admissions process, financial aid, campus life and much more. US boarding schools offer superb preparation for college bound students, but they’re not for everyone. American Prep is the only comprehensive guide for parents and students interested in exploring, applying to, and succeeding at these great schools. An alumnus of the Lawrenceville School and a current prep school parent, author Ronald Mangravite offers insider advice on the admissions process. He also cover the history, culture, and resources of US boarding schools, leading readers through the entire prep school experience. American Prep explains:Why boarding schools are increasingly valuable in the twenty-first centuryThe pros and cons of private school vs public schoolHow to select a school that is right for your student and your familyHow to navigate the admission process – detailed insider adviceThe emotional challenges of prep school for students and familiesHow to secure financial aidHow to success on campus

The Boarding School Survival Guide
The Boarding School Survival Guide

Author: Justin Ross Muchnick

Publisher: Peterson's

Published: 2014-06-10

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0768939186

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Attending boarding school is a serious commitment in many realms, whether emotional, financial, academic, or otherwise. With that in mind, it is important to understand what boarding school is all about. This valuable resource is full of insights from students who attend or recently graduated from a boarding school. The Boarding School Survival Guide provides a variety of perspectives that help both prospective students and parents decide if boarding school is the right choice for them, and assists current students in navigating the twists and turns of school away from home. Written by students for students-in a fun, easy-to-read manner with essential, up-to-date information An honest and insightful look at life at today's boarding schools Anecdotal testimonies from current boarding school students and those who've recently graduated Helpful tips and strategies for students who are considering applying to boarding schools or are getting ready to attend one