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• Before the Psychology Examining Committee of the Board fo Medical Examiners
• Anger, madness, and the daimonic: the psychological genesis of violence, evil and creativity
• Attachment therapy on trial: the torture and death of Candace Newmaker By Jean Mercer, Larry Sarner, Linda Rosa

"How law, custom, and human hought processes have made it easier for harmful fringe therapies to survive than for them to be regulated"

"Although AT practitioners call themselves psychotherapists, the term AT includes severl techniques that use physical restraint and painful physical stimulation. AT is almost always applied to children rather than to adults, and these children are often adoptees or have previously experrienced abuse, neglect, or painful medical treatment."

"These therapists are convinced that the children suffer from problems in there ability to connect emotionally with adult caregivers—attachment disorders—and are thus in need of Attachment Therapy."

"Advocates of AT state that their techniques cure children of such problems, making them pleasant, affectionate, helpful, and obedient rather than hostile and even dangerous."

• Suffer the Children - Denver Westward News
• Understanding attachment and attachment disorders: theory, evidence and practice By Vivien Prior, Danya Glaser
• Expert Speaks Out The dangers of attachment therapy: Parent education needed
• Holding therapy: Maternal bonding or cerebellar stimulation?
• What Alternative Health Practitioners Might Not Tell You Prof. Richard Dawkins, Oxford, April 2001

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