Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the ‘Privileged’ Child (2015) by Joy Schaverien, published by  Routledge

Disillusioned ex-patient of years of orthodox psychoanalysis. He is a freelance writer who has covered many fields: local community broadcasting, devolved politics, the British-Irish conflict and its resolution, and ethno-cultural mingling across the British Isles. More recently, from an attachment and neuroscience perspective, he has focused, partly autobiographically, on the debilitating psycho-somatic consequences of English upper-class child rearing: the nanny and attending boarding schools—a recipe for early developmental trauma. He is a director of the lobby group Boarding School Action, campaigning for the abolition of elective boarding for those under fourteen. E-mail: