The tragic and shocking story of a 10-year-old girl who was suffocated during a fringe therapy illuminates legal issues that make it difficult to ban such practices.
Jean Mercer is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at Richard Stockton College. Larry Sarner is an official with the American Association for the Humane Treatment of Children in Therapy, and a past Researcher with the National Council Against Health Fraud. Linda Rosa is a Researcher with the National Council Against Health Fraud.
"Here is a profoundly good book--humane, constructive, and
scrupulously objective--about a case that could have been treated
with sensationalism and melodrama. Attachment Therapy, the authors
show, is only the most dangerous embodiment of a more general
aberration: the founding of treatments on premises that have
already been confuted by sound research. Every therapist and every
legislator ought to take this important work to heart."-Frederick
Crews Principal author, The Memory Wars
"Masterfully chronicles the chilling story of how a 10-year old
girl, Candace, endured painful physical stimulation, was
dangerously restrained, and eventually suffocated to death. In the
name of 'curing her' with Attachment Therapy, Candace's therapists
ignored her begging, screaming, and gasping; eventually they were
convicted in criminal court. The extent to which some therapists
embrace such unvalidated fringe treatments is one of the greatest
scandals in today's mental health system. This damning indictment
should stir a badly needed national debate about these practices,
and aid in the fight against them."-Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine
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