Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives

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Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives: Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healing is a unique, emotive and theorised narrative of a young girl's experience of boarding school in Australia. She traces its impact on the emerging identity of the child, including sexual development and emotional capacity, the transmission of trauma into adulthood and the long process of recovery. Interweaving her story with the experiences of Christopher Robin Milne, Christine Jack presents her memoir as an exemplar of how narrative writing can be employed in remembering and recovering from traumatic experiences. Unique and powerfully written, Jack takes the reader on a journey into her childhood in Australian boarding school convents in the 1950s and 60s. Comparing her experience to Christopher Robin Milne's, she interrogates his memoirs illustrating that boarding school trauma knows no boundaries of time and place. She investigates their emerging individuality before being sent to live an institutional life and traces their feelings of longing and loneliness as well as the impact of the abuse each endured there. As an educational historian, Jack writes in a ground-breaking way from the perspective of an insider and outsider, revealing how trauma remains in the unconscious, wielding power over the life of the adult, until the traumatic memories are recovered, emotions released and associated dysfunctional behaviour changed, restoring well-being. Engaging the lenses of history, life-span and Jungian psychology, feminist and trauma theory and boarding school trauma research, this book positions narrative writing as a way of reducing the power of trauma over the lives of survivors. Personal and accessible, this book will be essential reading for psychologists, educational historians, as well as students and academics of psychology, sociology, trauma studies, ex-boarders and those interested in the life of Christopher Robin Milne.


  • | Author: Christine Jack
  • | Publisher: Routledge
  • | Publication Date: May 16, 2020
  • | Number of Pages: 232 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 036781952X
  • | ISBN-13: 9780367819521
Author:
Christine Jack
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
May 16, 2020
Number of pages:
232 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
036781952X
ISBN-13:
9780367819521