Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege

Nick Duffell is a psychotherapist and trainer in private practice who pioneered therapeutic work with ex-boarders and specialist training for psychotherapists. He is the author of The Making of Them: The British attitude to children and the boarding school system and Wounded Leaders: British Elitism and the Entitlement Illusion - a psychohistory. Thurstine Basset worked as a social worker, mostly in the mental health field, before entering the world of training and education in the 1980s. He has subsequently written and produced a variety of training packages, articles, book chapters and books in the mental health field. Early in the 21st Century, he attended a Boarding School Survivors Workshop and was a director of Boarding Concern, an organisation that supports boarding school survivors.

Foreword Part 1 Recognition Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 What Therapists Can Do: an overview Chapter 3 Managing Separation and Loss Chapter 4 Survival Chapter 5 Signs, Symptoms and Relationship Issues Part 2 Acceptance Chapter 6 Remembering Chapter 7 Adapting Chapter 8 Trauma Chapter 9 Sex: Puberty, Gender, and Abuse Part 3 Change Chapter 10 The Healing Process Chapter 11 Unmasking Survival Patterns Chapter 12 Homecoming Postscript Boarding in the 21st Century Appendix Useful Organisations