Joy Schaverien PhD is a Jungian analyst, psychotherapist and supervisor with a private practice in Rutland in the East Midlands, UK. Joy writes and lectures extensively on a varied group of topics including psychoanalysis, the erotic transference and gender in psychotherapy, art and psychoanalysis and the psychological effects of boarding school.
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Joy Schaverien

Joy Schaverien PhD

 

Joy Schaverien PhD is a Jungian psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and supervisor. 

 

Joy writes and lectures extensively on a varied group of topics including psychoanalysis, the erotic transference and gender in psychotherapy, art and psychoanalysis and the psychological effects of boarding school.

 

Boarding School Syndrome describes common symptoms suffered by those affected by early boarding.   Originator of the term, her book on this topic was published in 2015. Based on extensive research with ex-boarders, in psychotherapy and in semi-structured interviews, it depicts the enduring psychological effects of this trauma.

 

Originally trained as a painter at the Slade (University College London). Joy is author of the seminal art psychotherapy text The Revealing Image and Visiting Professor for the Northern Programme for Art Psychotherapy.

Joy Schaverien in discussion with Pete Hunt on ‘Boarding School Syndrome’ for ‘The Privileged Man Podcast’.

16th December 2023

Boarding schools debated on Channel 4 News

Jon SnowJon Snow Presenter

11.April 2017

 

With Julie Robinson, general secretary of the Independent Schools Council, and psychotherapist Professor Joy Schaverien, author of Boarding School Syndrome.

or watch the interview at full resolution on the Channel 4 web site