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Drawing on my experience of being born into the British upper-class and applying the insights of attachment theory, my "boarding school syndrome: reconsidered in social context and through the lens of attachment theory" (Partridge, 2021), offered a critique of the existing diagnostic "boarding school syndrome" (BSS) as developed by Schaverien (2011...
I argue the time has come to expand the now recognised clinical diagnosis of boarding school syndrome to take account of its invisible precursors in the avoidant attachment patterns of British upper-class culture. This elite, comprising less than 1% of the population, has sustained fee-paying boarding “public” schools, and is sustained by them, in...
This short history explains the advent of the now rapidly growing adverse childhood experiences movement as grounded in Dr Felitti’s recognition of the link between childhood sexual abuse and obesity. It draws attention to Bowlby’s prior use of the term “adverse childhood experiences” (1981), and his own struggle to recognise how
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The child abuse sensation (in Vienna) of 1899 forces upon us a painful might-have-been of intellectual history. For had Freud taken note of the Hummel and Kutchera cases, had he written about them, had he explored the problem of child abuse, then the issue could not have been so easily forgotten.
(Wolff, 1988, p.217)
