Professor Joy Schaverien works as a Jungian analyst, psychotherapist and art psychotherapist in private practice.   She supervises experienced practitioners and trainees.  She also lectures at home and internationally on varied topics. Her research interests are reflected in her books and published articles.She is the author of Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the 'Privileged' Child

Joy Schaverien

Psychoanalyst Joy Schaverien was the first to coin the term Boarding School Syndrome, after patterns of behaviours and difficulties in her clients - and those of her colleagues - were found to be connected by one commonality: going to boarding school as a child.

Schaverien describes the ABCD's of Boarding School Syndrome as: