Parents who want their children to join the ruling classes will no doubt be both pleased and relieved to learn, should they trouble with yesterday's 'Guardian', that Eton College is seeking the services of a clinical psychologist to work under their consultant adolescent psychiatrist. It was not clear whether this last was a peripatetic or perhaps a part-timer, moonlighting from what is left of his or her job with the National Health Service, but either way this looks to be a big psychiatric effort for the 1,300 odd boys at the school. Rather more than is likely to be available for us bog-standards.
Or is it that life as a wannabee ruling class is pretty tough and there are casualties, both mental and physical along the way. Post traumatic stress syndrome following a bad fall under the Wall Game? Or a bad night in the dorm?
But to be fair, Eton College is well up to date with their jargon and only want to employ someone who only uses evidence based treatments. No exotica from darkest India or anywhere else. No psychoactive substances other than the well-attested sugar, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and tannin or those otherwise approved by NICE. No padded cells.
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