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Attachment Therapy on Trial: The Torture and Death of Candace Newmaker (Child Psychology and Mental Health)
Attachment Therapy on Trial The Torture and Death of Candace Newmaker - Child Psychology and Mental Health Author:Jean Mercer, Larry Sarner, Linda Rosa Candace Newmaker was an adopted girl whose mother felt the child suffered from an emotional disorder that prevented loving attachment. The mother sought attachment therapy--a fringe form of psychotherapy--for the child and was present at her death by suffocation during that therapy. This text examines the beliefs of the girl's mother and the unl... more »icensed therapists, showing that the death, though unintentional, was a logical outcome of this form of treatment.« less