Recently Sally’s clinical work has drawn her attention to an issue which has a long history and is very much part of the English landscape. This is an issue which has been largely hidden under a veil of silence. I am referring to the Public School system and in particular, the practice of sending children away to boarding school at the age of 7 and placing them in the care of an institution. She has also been struck by how little has been written about this other than by Joy Schaverien and Nick Duffell. It seems to Sally that the boarding school system offers a window into a cultural complex which is peculiarly British.
And the fox, a familiar inhabitant of our landscape, will be there in the background, emerging from the shadows as he has in Sally’s work with these patients, a manifestation of the ‘elusive, deceptive, ever-changing content’, which flits about between us.
