Surviving Boarding School: The trauma at the core of the British Psyche - Nick Duffell

This week, I went on a personal journey and deep dive into Boarding School Syndrome with one of the world’s leading experts, Nick Duffell. Whether you, or a loved one, attended boarding school or not, there is a lot to take on board and consider in this conversation. Why? Because to understand boarding school survivorship is to understand: - one of the core fundamental elements of the British psyche that also spreads across what was the Empire and is now a Commonwealth - a very clean example of early developmental trauma and the defence mechanism of splitting to create a survival self-survival personality away from what Nick refers to as our inner indigenous or natural self. In this conversation we cover: - Reconciling the concept of linking ‘trauma’ with the privilege of a private education - The mechanics and dynamics of boarding schools school syndrome and how that’s plays out in creating a Strategic Survivor Personality - How that plays out as the ex-boarder then goes out into the world. - The i