Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives

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.

Christine Jack spent thirty-five years as an academic in the field of teacher education, including holding the position of Head of Primary Education at the University of Canberra. She is a respected and well-published Australian educational historian and is currently an honorary researcher at Charles Sturt University.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prelude; Chapter 1: Going Somewhere; Chapter 2: The Lure of Boarding Schools; Chapter 3: Leaving Rituals; Chapter 4: The Dormitory; Chapter 5: A Strange New World; Chapter 6: Hidden Longing; Chapter 7: Resistance and Acceptance; Chapter 8: Abuse and Torture; Chapter 9: Shame; Chapter 10: A Normal Life?; Chapter 11: An Arduous Journey; Chapter 12: Out of Silence; Chapter 13: Confrontation and captivity; Chapter 14: Restoration; Conclusion; Index