Read this post!
I have not personally clicked the link below yet--I am pretty much that afraid of what I'll read behind it. (I plan to read it tomorrow, in the daylight, not right before bed, so at least when my heart breaks there will be someone around for me to cry at.) I know and trust my friends who have posted about this, and I know when it's time to spread awareness about a serious, obscure issue. So... The following text is stolen from sams_cafe's post, with permission.
"This is a link. Don't click it until you read the rest of the post.
ATTACHMENT THERAPY: A SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS.
A compatriot and good friend of mine has begun work on a blog for survivors of Attachment Therapy, also referred to as Holding Therapy or Rage Reduction. This is a brutal and sometimes fatal form of abuse masquerading as psychiatric treatment. There's next to nothing out there for children and adults who have undergone it, in part because it's a relatively new "technique". Attachment therapy promises quick fixes and firm results and creates lasting scars instead.
This is child abuse, sanctioned and committed by so-called professionals and funded by insurance companies. It is child abuse, and there is plenty of documentation that it can easily end in murder.
If you'd like more details about what Attachment Therapy involves, and some of these are graphic, you can visit the blog. If you can't cope,or don't want to, I don't care. You don't have to read it, though I think you should. What matters is making this public. And that,honestly, means getting that blog as public as humanly possible.
So read it or don't read it, but please post the link and title on your journal. Some parent's going to be told they should send their child to Attachment Therapy and they're going to get on Google and try to research it, or their friends or family are. Some survivor is going to start struggling with their experiences and look for help, and they'll get on Google too. The above-linked blog should be the first link anyone sees when they search for Attachment Therapy. I believe this without reservation.
Feel free to copy the text of this post, in whole or in part, when you post."
"This is a link. Don't click it until you read the rest of the post.
ATTACHMENT THERAPY: A SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS.
A compatriot and good friend of mine has begun work on a blog for survivors of Attachment Therapy, also referred to as Holding Therapy or Rage Reduction. This is a brutal and sometimes fatal form of abuse masquerading as psychiatric treatment. There's next to nothing out there for children and adults who have undergone it, in part because it's a relatively new "technique". Attachment therapy promises quick fixes and firm results and creates lasting scars instead.
This is child abuse, sanctioned and committed by so-called professionals and funded by insurance companies. It is child abuse, and there is plenty of documentation that it can easily end in murder.
If you'd like more details about what Attachment Therapy involves, and some of these are graphic, you can visit the blog. If you can't cope,or don't want to, I don't care. You don't have to read it, though I think you should. What matters is making this public. And that,honestly, means getting that blog as public as humanly possible.
So read it or don't read it, but please post the link and title on your journal. Some parent's going to be told they should send their child to Attachment Therapy and they're going to get on Google and try to research it, or their friends or family are. Some survivor is going to start struggling with their experiences and look for help, and they'll get on Google too. The above-linked blog should be the first link anyone sees when they search for Attachment Therapy. I believe this without reservation.
Feel free to copy the text of this post, in whole or in part, when you post."