Sunday, August 31, 2014

Does Reactive Attachment Disorder Have Anything to Do With Cause and Effect Thinking?

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A reader’s recent comment referred to the tendency shown by believers in the “Attachment Therapy” system to attribute children’s behavioral...
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Friday, August 29, 2014

Why Mental Illness Isn't Exactly a Brain Disorder

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It’s a common thing nowadays to hear mental illnesses referred to as “brain diseases” or “brain disorders”. The National Alliance on Mental...

No,Your Baby Can't Read-- She's Working on Baby Jobs

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{My thanks to Barbara Reynolds for bringing this to my attention!} The video series Your baby can read , by Robert Titzer, appeared som...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Child Trafficking By Any Other Name Smells Equally Bad

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Over a year ago, I posted several pieces (e.g. http://childmyths.blogspot.com/2013/01/kafka-again-more-on-capture-of-child.html ) describi...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Are Hugs Necessary?

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Reader Sandee—who had asked me to comment on Tina Traster in the previous post--  was also questioning the idea that all children must be...
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Traster and That Primal Wound: Quick, Call a Celebrity!

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A reader, Sandee, suggested the other day that I write about a disinformative blog, http://www.adoption.net/adoptive-parents/blog/rescuin...
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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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