This handbook aims to be a guide to the best private schools of the country. It has been undertaken with the parent especially in mind, but it is hoped that it may be of value to school and college authorities and all others interested in the subject. It is believed that this Handbook is the first volume which attempts a critical and discriminating treatment of the private schools of the country. It is an endeavor to classify the schools on their merits -- at least a step, it is hoped, toward eventual standardization. - Editor's foreword.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 214. Chapters: St. Xavier High School (Cincinnati), Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary, Mount Carmel High School (Chicago), Valley Forge Military Academy and College, St. Louis University High School, Trinity High School (Louisville), Bellarmine College Preparatory, DeMatha Catholic High School, Northeast Catholic High School, Public Prep, St. Peter's Preparatory School, Iona Preparatory School, Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, St. Edward High School (Lakewood, Ohio), St. Lawrence Seminary High School, St. Rita of Cascia High School, Christopher Columbus High School (Miami), Brother Martin High School, Archbishop Curley High School, St. Augustine High School (San Diego), Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, Catholic High School (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), St. John's Preparatory School (Danvers, Massachusetts), Xavier High School (New York City), Detroit Catholic Central High School, St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.), University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy, Gonzaga College High School, Moeller High School, Don Bosco Technical Institute, Loyola High School (Los Angeles), Boston College High School, St. John's Jesuit High School and Academy, Regis High School (New York City), Landon School, Central Catholic Marianist High School, Christian Brothers High School (Memphis, Tennessee), Jesuit High School (New Orleans), La Salle High School (Cincinnati, Ohio), St. Mark's School (Texas), Saint Charles Preparatory School, Ohio, Archbishop Riordan High School, Malden Catholic High School, St. Augustine High School (New Orleans), La Salle Institute, Saint Louis Priory School, Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Chaminade High School, Subiaco Academy, The Webb Schools, The Albany Academy, Benedictine Military School, Catholic Memorial School (West Roxbury, Massachusetts), Rockhurst High School, Devon...

Boarding School Syndrome is an analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age. Innovative and challenging, Joy Schaverien offers a psychological analysis of the long-established British and colonial preparatory and public boarding school tradition. Richly illustrated with pictures and the narratives of adult ex-boarders in psychotherapy, the book demonstrates how some forms of enduring distress in adult life may be traced back to the early losses of home and family. Developed from clinical research and informed by attachment and child development theories ‘Boarding School Syndrome’ is a new term that offers a theoretical framework on which the psychotherapeutic treatment of ex-boarders may build. Divided into four parts, History: In the Name of Privilege; Exile and Healing; Broken Attachments: A Hidden Trauma, and The Boarding School Body, the book includes vivid case studies of ex-boarders in psychotherapy. Their accounts reveal details of the suffering endured: loss, bereavement and captivity are sometimes compounded by physical, sexual and psychological abuse. Here, Joy Schaverien shows how many boarders adopt unconscious coping strategies including dissociative amnesia resulting in a psychological split between the 'home self' and the 'boarding school self'. This pattern may continue into adult life, causing difficulties in intimate relationships, generalized depression and separation anxiety amongst other forms of psychological distress. Boarding School Syndrome demonstrates how boarding school may damage those it is meant to be a reward and discusses the wider implications of this tradition. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, Jungian analysts, psychotherapists, art psychotherapists, counsellors and others interested in the psychological, cultural and international legacy of this tradition including ex-boarders and their partners.