{"title":"Christine Jack","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristine Jack\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the delicate intersections of personal history and healing, particularly through the lens of trauma and recovery. Her work delves deeply into the experiences associated with boarding school and the lasting emotional impact it can have, presenting narratives that are both candid and thought-provoking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find a compassionate examination of mental health and wellness, presented with sensitivity and insight. Jack’s writing encourages reflection and understanding, inviting an empathetic engagement with complex emotional journeys.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"recovering-boarding-school-trauma-narratives-by-christine-jack-9780367819507","title":"Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRecovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives: Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healing\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique, emotive and theorised narrative of a young girl’s experience of boarding school in Australia. Christine Jack 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, she presents her memoir as an exemplar of how narrative writing can be employed in remembering and recovering from traumatic experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnique and powerfully written, Jack takes the reader on a journey into her childhood in Australian boarding school convents in the 1950s and 1960s. Comparing her experience with 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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, lifespan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePersonal and accessible, this book will be essential reading for psychologists and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607485497580,"sku":"9780367819507","price":294.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780367819507-recovering-boarding-school-trauma-narratives.jpg?v=1778167625"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/christine-jack.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}