Thursday, July 31, 2014

You Can't Tell a Book by Its Cover, But Sometimes You Can Tell by Author, Editor, or Publisher

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Nowadays, we tell each other all the time to be cautious about accepting information offered on the Internet. People may not actually fol...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Badly Mistaken About Vaccines and Autism

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A recent article by Keith Kloor in the Washington Post Magazine discussed the position taken by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has edited a ne...
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

The Randolph Attachment Disorder Questionnaire: When a Psychological Test Is Not a Test

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On several occasions over the last couple of years, I’ve referred on this blog to the case of a mother whose children’s fates seem to be un...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

You Wouldn't Treat a Dog the Way This Woman Tells Social Workers They Should Treat Foster Children

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I was surprised to find out some years ago that some people were disciplining their children with methods like limiting or forcing food and...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Infant Eye Contact and Visual Development-- How They're Related

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Of all the posts I’ve posted on this site over the years, the one that gets read over and over again is about eye contact between infants a...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

What Is Childhood Trauma About, and What Can Be Done to Lessen Its Effects?

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A reader kindly commented on yet another Tina Traster claim—that adopted children in general have suffered from the trauma of a “broken mat...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Trauma, Attachment, and "Adoption Today"

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A glance at the magazine Adoption Today for June 2014 is enough to raise many questions about this publication’s purposes and accuracy. Fr...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Can Post-Partum and Post-Adoption Worry Amount to Maternal Depression?

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Over the last couple of days, the New York Times has been featuring articles on maternal mental illness in the year following childbirth. A...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Having a Look at Love and Logic

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A reader suggested that having written a post about the plausibility of alternative psychotherapies, I might examine the available facts ab...
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