CHILDMYTHS

The "Childmyths" blog is a spin-off of Jean Mercer's book "Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths & Misunderstandings"(Sage, 2015; third edition). The blog focuses on parsing mistaken beliefs that can influence people's decisions about childrearing-- for example, beliefs about day care, about punishment, about child psychotherapies, and about adoption. See also http://thestudyofnonsense.blogspot.com

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Reactive Attachment Disorder on the Internet: Confident, but Wrong

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Reactive Attachment Disorder is a genuine diagnosis, code 313.89 in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Assoc...

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Monday, October 18, 2010

"Primal Wound" or "The Blight Man Was Born For"

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Over the last week or so , discussions at http://osolomama.wordpress.com have centered around the idea of the “primal wound” (even though t...

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

On "The Road to Evergreen"

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For anyone with an interest in adoption, or in the complementary-and-alternative treatment “attachment therapy”, Rachael Stryker’s recent bo...

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Jean Mercer: Jean Mercer has a Ph.D in Psychology from Brandeis University, earned when that institution was 20 years old (you do the math). She is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Richard Stockton College, where for many years she taught developmental psychology, research methods, perception, and history of psychology. Since about 2000 her focus has been on potentially dangerous child psychotherapies, and she has published several related books and a number of articles in professional journals. Her CV can be seen at http://childmyths.blogspot.com/2009/12/curriculum-vitae-jean.mercer-richard.html.

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