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Political leaders in Britain are consistently drawn from a class born to be educated away from their families in institutions - elite boarding schools. This has a direct effect on their ability to love, to relate, to make good judgments and to develop the necessary leadership qualities for today's world. In this controversial and highly acclaimed book, the author guides the reader along the elite path through boarding school and Oxbridge to government, unpacking what he calls the Entitlement Illusion. Central to the Illusion is a uniquely British phenomenon, an industrialised process for turning out servants of the Empire that has been unwilling to change with the times. It was deified in the Victorian Rational Man Project and normalised by the British public, who still buy into the trance. Up to date evidence from Neuroscience shows what a poor training for leadership this actually is.

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Date de parution	24 août 2016
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BRITISH ELITISM
AND
THE ENTITLEMENT ILLUSION

A PSYCHOHISTORY BY
NICK DUFFELL
Contents

Cover
Copyright Credits
By the same author
About this book
About the author
Acknowledgements

Title Page
Preface
Prologue
Introduction

Act I
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Act II
Epigraph
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7

Act III
Epigraph
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10

Act IV
Epigraph
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13

Act V
Epigraph
Epilogue

Appendix
Endnotes
First published 2014 by Lone Arrow Press
Revised second edition 2015

Copyright © 2014, 2015 Nick Duffell
All rights reserved

Nick Duffell has asserted his
right under the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 to be identified
as the author of this work.

ISBN 978-1-84396-423-0

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including photocopying, without written
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Email woundedleaders@btinternet.com

Boarding School Survivors workshops:
www.boardingschoolsurvivors.co.uk
Email info@boardingschoolsurvivors.co.uk

Permission to quote from Iain McGilchrist s
The Master and his Emissary: The Divided
Brain and the Making of the Western
World , New Haven London:
Yale University Press (2010) is gratefully
acknowledged.

Excerpts from Recovering Sanity:
A Compassionate Approach to Understanding
the Treating Psychosis , © 1990 by
Edward M. Podvoll, reprinted by arrangement
with The Permissions Company, Inc.,
on behalf of Shambhala Publications Inc., Boston, MA.
By the same author

THE MAKING OF THEM:
The British Attitude to Children
and the Boarding School System

Lone Arrow Press 2000 2010
ISBN 978-0-95379-040-1

If the Church of England is the Tory Party at prayer, the Public School system may be called the Tory Party in the nursery. Here are set out the traumas, deformations and truncations of character that explain the British Establishment from the appalling Doctor Arnold to the Thatcher Matronocracy. The British are known to be mad. In the maiming of their privileged young, they are criminally insane.
John le Carr author of The Perfect Spy , The Constant Gardener and The Night Manager .

A worthy and valuable aid in controlling the problem, not only by analysing its psychological components but also by pointing out ways to manage them, well-written, personally direct, and based on extensive study of the hundreds of ‘boarding school survivors.’ I can highly recommend it.
The British Medical Journal

A clear-sighted, frightening book about what we might call the institutionalized child abandonment - heartbreaking, thoughtful, lively and convincing.
Robert Bly, poet and author of Iron John .

A powerful book.
The Scientific and Medical Review

Elegantly reasoned and passionately argued, it will serve humanity by driving a well-placed nail into the coffin of the misguided mythology of British boarding school education.
Jean Liedloff, author of The Continuum Concept .

A tender and ruthless analysis of the effect of boarding school life on girls and boys, both at the time and later in life, will strike many painful chords and unlock many painful memories. On almost every page one encounters a sentence, a quotation or an incident that prompts a mental, Oh my God, yes!
Angela Lambert, author of A Rather English Marriage and Unquiet Souls .

Read a chapter online at
www.boardingschoolsurvivors.co.uk
About this book

A revealing, insightful, and provocative look at the backstory that shapes modern leaders, an important contribution to the growing movement to end what amounts to contemporary feudalism and replace it with a system future generations will want to inherit.
John Perkins , New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Many of our current leaders have been shaped by the public school ethos. Nick Duffell explains how such schools prize rationality and confident talk whilst they minimise emotions, and how people brought up like this can take us forward into a more collaborative world where politics is about discussion and consensus. A lucid and valuable contribution to understanding the culture we live in.
Sue Gerhardt , bestselling author of Why Love Matters .

Nick Duffell has exposed the underbelly of the British imperial psyche and its consequences for contemporary politics. Wounded Leaders unveils the problem and opens a way for cultural healing.
Dr. Alastair McIntosh , author of Soil and Soul .

In the spirit of The Emperor’s New Clothes, from a psychological and a behavioral neuroscience perspective, Nick Duffell provides a compelling argument that the process that produces the elite in British society are tantamount to child abuse. A wonderful book – not only important, but beautifully written.
Professor Stephen Porges , University of North Carolina, author of The Polyvagal Theory .

A timely and important reminder of the need to change our minds in a fundamental way, and open ourselves to the powerful and practical wisdom of the heart. Its insights are profoundly needed everywhere, throughout the globe.
The Huffington Post

Well documented, erudite, suitably fervent in its denunciation of excruciatingly unjust, cruel and psychologically antediluvian institutions, this book is a must read for mental health practitioners and for those who want to gain a deeper insight into the workings of British society.
Self and Society

A long book taking a panoramic view of the subject and written in a very accessible style, signalling an area of huge importance, which had been almost entirely overlooked before. The relevance to thera- pists is profound: boarding survivors tend to hide their vulnerability behind a particularly impressive façade of apparent competence. Their privilege and ostensible confidence mean they have often been poorly served by therapy.
The Psychotherapist
About the author

Nick Duffell is the pioneer theorist on the psychotherapeutic understanding of residential education. Two television documentarieshave featured his work with Boarding School Survivors’ , and his book The Making of Them: the British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System appeared in 2000 to wide acclaim.

Born in 1949, he has a degree in Sanskrit and has been a schoolteacher, carpenter, psychotherapist, management consultant and trainer. He writes frequently for psychological journals, contributed to the University of Surrey Human Potential Group’s Dictionary of Personal Development and is committed to the development psychohistory as a tool for understanding current world problems. He is the father of two grown-up sons.

In 1996, he and his wife Helena Løvendal-Duffell founded the Centre for Gender Psychology, offering specialist training for professionals in the field of relationships, sex, and gender. Their 2002 book, Sex, Love and the Danger of Intimacy (HarperCollins Thorsons) has been translated into several languages and supports their training of CreativeCoupleWork therapists. They live between London and a remote corner of south-west France.
Acknowledgements

First, appreciation to my wonderful production team: thanks to my expert and patient editor, Grace Fairley, to my pivotal reader Dave Shortt, to Mark Duffell for the extraordinary cover painting, to Steve Jones for creating the lively cover design, to Sue Amaradivekara for her creative promotion, to Kristen Harrison for her energy, skill and enthusiasm for the website, and to my train-riding indexer Ed Emery.
I much appreciate the encouragement from Hilde Bland, John Bunzl, Simon Cohen, Jeremy Cullen, Nick Dawson, Nick Hedley,Will Hammond of the Penguin Group, Leo Hollis of Verso Books, Jakob Horstmann, Adam Jukes, Brett Kahr, Reinhard Kowalski, StenLinnander, Mark Smalley, Katherine Stroud, John Perkins, Anne Winchester and Felicity de Zulueta. Thanks to John Bunzl, AndrewMullis and Mark Smalley for their comments on the manuscript. I want to express enormous gratitude to Bernie Dean, Colin Luke, Lyn Lidiard and Andrew Mullis. Thurstine Basset, Pippa Foster, James Foucar, Darel Hunneybell, Margaret Laughton, Nicola Miller, Simon Partridge, Joy Schaverien and Allison Ujeski have carried on the arduous work informing the world about boarding and its wounds to the soul; from these allies I have received extraordinary trust and loyalty, over many years, for which I am profoundlygrateful.
I have also benefited from the support of the some intellectual giants: Lloyd DeMause, David Cornwell, Sue Gerhardt, Michael Goldfarb, Ronald Hyam, Oliver James, Iain McGilchrist, Alastair McIntosh, George Monbiot, Stephen Porges and Andrew Samuels, to whom much thanks is due. I owe undying thanks to three people who died much too soon: Rob Bland, Petruska Clarkson and Angela Lambert; without these visionaries my first book would never have appeared let alone birthed the current one.
This book could not have been written without Helena Løvendal-Duffell who has been thinking these ideas through with me for twenty-five years. She has been my most important colleague in articulating the psychology of the syndrome while maintaining the courage to point out my ex-boarder failings as a husband. Both my chief support and my first critic, she has taught me what it is like to be a foreigner living among the English, and helped me keep faith in my direction. No thanks is big enough for her part in it all.
Preface

Wounded Leaders
The Entitlement Illusion

Wounded Leaders

Despite the complexities involved in explaining it fully and the controversy that it inspires, the chief point of thisbook is simple enoug