Our 'Applications of Attachment Theory to Psychotherapy' online module (featuring over 20 hours of CPD content with a range of expert speakers) covering similar topics is available here: In this interview Joy and Alice discuss how aspects of the boarding school experience could be replayed through the experience of social isolation and how to work with these anxieties through the online frame. Joy shares some interesting ideas about how therapists, if they have the capacity, may be able to support the more vulnerable in their communities as well as health care workers. The interview ends on Bion – an ex-boarder – who was able to resonate with his clients and hold strong defences against terror.
00:35 - Resonances for ex boarders in the current crisis around social isolation
00:53 - The ABCD of Boarding School Syndrome
01:22 - Abandonment
02:55 - Bereavement
06:19 - Captivity
08:51 - Mapping the boarding school experience on to the current situation
09:14 - Dissociation
10:06 - Adaptations and similarities in the experiences
11:15 - Physical presence of the other
12:28 - The ‘tantalising object’ and feelings of deprivation
14:36 - Overcoming resistance to working online or on the phone
16:53 - Negative transference challenges when not working in the room together
20:26 - Links with early relational trauma and boarding school trauma
22:58 - Traumatic triggers abound, therapists need for support
24:05 - Being with the real as well as the transference
24:52 - Adapting the frame for ex-boarders
25:28 - Online work, being together in a different way
26:25 - Relational work without breaking the frame
27:02 - What role can psychotherapists play beyond their clinical work?
30:12 - Government and boarding school
Biography
Professor Joy Schaverien PhD is a Jungian Psychoanalyst, a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology (London) with a private practice in the East Midlands. She is Visiting Professor at the Northern Programme for Art Psychotherapy (University of Sheffield).
She teaches internationally and is a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and formerly on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She has published extensively on the links between art and psychoanalysis and also on the erotic transference and countertransference.
Her acclaimed book 'Boarding School Syndrome: the Psychological Trauma of the ‘Privileged’ Child' was published in 2015. A new edition of her book 'The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy: Erotic Transference and Boarding School Syndrome' is to be published by Routledge in April 2020.
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