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Attachment Therapy (AT):
Attachment Therapy is considered an
extraordinarily dangerous practice for five principal reasons:
- It is baseless and
useless; children are often subjected to it in lieu of a
sound diagnosis and possibly effective treatment of their
real problems, if any; this can lead to continued or
escalating bad behavior with horrific outcomes in the long
run.
- It is emotionally abusive,
leaving damaged minds in its wake, which may express
themselves with anti-social and self-destructive behavior,
including suicide.
- It invariably involves
coercive restraint, which among other things is physically
dangerous and associated with numerous deaths apart from AT.
- It mischaracterizes the
children subjected to it — such as a belief that certain
children do not experience pain (or at least tolerate it
better than normal people), lead secret satanic lives, have
repressed memories, or are more physically dangerous than
they actually are — leading to treatments that are
inappropriate for any patient.
- Its practices inure
caregivers to the suffering of their children during
“treatment” so that caregivers more readily slip into a
frame of mind where they can and do “go too far,” inflicting
physical injury, or even causing death.
Some spectacular cases of
child-abuse and death, associated with Attachment Therapy, have come
to light over the years. Children have suffered and died. Parents
have lost custody or faced criminal charges. Therapists have gone to
jail or gone on the lam.
Below
is a chronological list of some of the known cases, linked to
summaries we have prepared from journalistic and other public
sources:
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Jeannie Warren, Rescued
June 1990, Fort Worth, Texas.
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Andrea Swenson, Suicide 9
November 1990, Evergreen, Colorado.
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S. M. Abbott, Rescued
August 1994, Benton County, Minnesota.
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Lucas Ciambrone, Killed 13
May 1995, Bradenton, Florida.
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Krystal Ann Tibbets, Killed
7 July 1995, Midvale, Utah.
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David Alexander Polreis,
Killed 11 February 1996, Greeley, Colorado.
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Roberta Evers, Killed 13
June 1998, Bayfield, Colorado.
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Roxanne Lee Heiser, Rescued
5 January 2000, Liberty Hill, Texas.
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Candace Elizabeth Newmaker
(of Durham, North Carolina), Killed 18 April 2000,
Evergreen, Colorado.
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Viktor Alexander Matthey,
Died 31 October 2000, Union Township, Hunterdon County, New
Jersey.
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Logan Lynn Marr, Killed 31
January 2001, Chelsea, Maine.
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Hansen Siblings, Rescued
February 2002, Saratoga Springs, Utah.
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Cassandra Killpack, Killed
9 June 2002, Springville, Utah.
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Jackson Four, Rescued 10
October 2003, Collingswood, New Jersey.
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Gravelle Siblings, Rescued
12 September 2005, Wakeman, Ohio.
If you know of another victim of
Attachment Therapy, please let us know!
Email us at:
Victims@ChildrenInTherapy.org
http://childrenintherapy.org/victims/index.html
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