Professor Joy Schaverien works as a Jungian psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and art psychotherapist in private practice.   She supervises experienced practitioners and trainees.  She also lectures at home and internationally on varied topics. Her research interests are reflected in her books and published articles.

 Prior to training as an psychoanalyst and psychotherapist she has worked in the NHS in the UK and has held posts in Universities running the Master’s programme at the University of Hertfordshire.

Here are some of the questions that I asked her

1. What in your definition is Boarding School Syndrome?
   
   
   
2. I would love to hear how you started working in the area of boarding school syndrome. What drew you into working in this field? 
   
   
   
3. I am fascinated by art therapy having used it myself to great affect. Could you explain why you find art therapy works so well for ex-boarders?
   
   
   
4. “I find that when I am at my most in need i.e. ill or struggling with something really difficult, I will shut out everyone around me and just put my head down and get through it. Friends and family feel pushed away, but it’s the only way I know how to deal with hard situations. I then feel so alone and tired. How can I let people back in at my moments of need?”
   
   
   
5. “I would love to know more about the split self that happens when you go to boarding school at a young age. How does it manifest through life? How can we recognise its there? What healing work can a person do to reunite all aspects of themselves?” 
   
   
   
6. “Should boarding in pre-teens be defined as child abuse?- Should the multiple financial incentives via reduced rates, subsidy from government via gift aid to private schools which board etc, be curtailed?- Do boarders suffer similarly to refugees, despite the status differences?
   
   
   
7. “What is Joy’s point of view on what ‘recovery’ looks like after boarding school?”
   
   
   
8. “Boarding school broke my family relationships as well as a large part of me. I would be must interested to hear what she has to say about family relationships. Being sent away to school at 9 years and leaving my younger brother living at home and being educated locally - has made our sibling relationship very difficult. Can these relationships be repaired?”
   
   
   
9. “Her book was so insightful! I would love to know more about BS and the connection with eating disorders, as I myself suffer with anorexia (others have asked about overeating or binge eating) and have done since very young and I’m sure it comes from the feeling of abandonment.” 
   
    To find out more about Joy's work please visit: https://www.joyschaverien.com/ To purchase her books on Amazon please visit: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=joy+schaverien&ref=nb_sb_noss For the Boarding School Survivors Support: https://www.bss-support.org.uk/ #boardingschoolsyndrome #joyschaverien #boardingschooltrauma 

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

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