Victims of Attachment Therapy

Attachment Therapy is considered an extraordinarily dangerous practice for five principal reasons:

1. 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.
2. It is emotionally abusive, leaving damaged minds in its wake, which may express themselves with anti-social and self-destructive behavior, including suicide.
3. It invariably involves coercive restraint, which among other things is physically dangerous and associated with numerous deaths apart from AT.
4. 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.
5. 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 and the parenting methods allied with it, 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.

If you know of another victim of Attachment Therapy, please let us know!
Email us at: Victims@ChildrenInTherapy.org