Monday, November 18, 2013

Supersized Families and Words of Knowledge: A Connection? Or, Right You Are If You Think You Are

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When I was commenting on Kathryn Joyce’s Slate article about the terrible life and death of Hana Williams last week, I was struggling to ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

A New German Book on Festhaltetherapie (Holding Therapy as Practiced by Welch and Prekopova)

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A new book, Festhaltetherapie: Ein Pladoyer Gegen Umstritten Therapie…. (Holding Therapy: An Argument Against Controversial Therapies) w...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Kathryn Joyce's Discussion of the Death of Hana Williams (and a Suggestion for a New Diagnosis)

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Kathryn Joyce, the author of The child catchers and other publications about child abuse associated with fundamentalist religious convicti...
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Saturday, November 9, 2013

An Open Letter to Temple Grandin About Holding Therapy for Autism

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 Dear Dr. Grandin: I am writing to ask you to retract or correct a statement you made more than twenty years ago, a statement that I be...
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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Infants, Autism,and "Eye Contact"

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I notice on my blog information this morning an unusually large number of reads of an old post, http://childmyths.blogspot.com/2011/07/eye-...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

More Day Camp Pre-and Post-Treatment Claims Outrun the Evidence

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A day or two ago, I posted some comments on a study published in Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing by Karyn Purvis and c...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

More Discussion About Conversion Therapy, An Alternative Psychotherapy

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The Philadelphia Inquirer this morning headlines a story “Parents challenge state ban on gay conversion therapy” (Nov. 5, 2013; B1, B8)....
Monday, November 4, 2013

When Conclusions Outrun Evidence: Karyn Purvis's Camp Study

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Having had many arguments with people who promote unsupported theories, I have to state approval for those who go through the tedious wor...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Holding Therapy from Westminster to the Castle: Discussions in London and Prague

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A kind invitation from APLA, the Czech organization for parents and professionals working with autistic children, gave me a chance to trave...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

An Orphanage Study: High Tech, Perhaps Not So Much Science

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There’s been a good deal of discussion recently about the possible effects of neglectful orphanage experiences on children’s development, w...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

In the Wake of the Reuters Report, A Scientifically Questionable Legislative Proposal

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You would think that the Reuters investigation of “re-homing” of unsatisfactory adopted children would be followed by legislation that woul...
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