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

Monday, September 28, 2015

You Can't Go Home Again, or Back to the Cradle Either

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I recently commented on a book by one Mary Evelyn Greene ( http://childmyths.blogspot.com/2015/09/when-nonsense-hurts-mary-evelyn-greenes.h...

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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Is Parental Alienation Child Abuse?

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For some years now, some psychologists and some divorced parents have been arguing that one parent may alienate a child from the other pare...

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Sunday, September 20, 2015

More on Craig Childress: A Reader Comment and Responses

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For reasons unknown to me, this reader comment disappeared from my blogspot page twice when I tried to post it. Because it is a thoughtful ...

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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Randomization? Yes; Isolated Variable? No: Claims About QST for Autism

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Last week, I received a message forwarded from an old colleague, with a link to an article in an open access journal. Here’s the referenc...

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Thursday, September 3, 2015

When Nonsense Hurts: Mary Evelyn Greene's Adoption Book

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With her 2013 book, When rain hurts, Mary Evelyn Greene has added yet another dramatic chapter to the ongoing trauma-mama narrative. This ...

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Craig Childress Tries to Drag Attachment Theory Into the Parental Alienation Swamp

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It was only a few weeks ago that I first encountered the name of the California psychologist Craig Childress. The context was a discussio...

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Sunday, August 16, 2015

APA and Torture: A More General "Nocere" Issue

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People who are interested in psychology as a subject of study or as a profession can hardly have missed the recent brouhaha in the Americ...

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Follow the Child's Lead to Create Attachment

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A recent e-mail from Jessica Pegis called my attention to a set of “rules for bonding” as put out by the magazine Adoption Today ( www.ado...

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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Doulas, Shamanism, and Sham

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My thanks to Yulia Massino for sending the link http://domrebenok.ru/shop/618/mezhdunarodnaya_konferentsiya_onlayn_uchastie/ where (by us...

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

More Nancy Verrier, or, Don't Say "Ain't" When She Says "Is"

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Quite some time ago, I posted here some comments about the claims made by the California MFT Nancy Verrier, to the effect that all adopte...

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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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