Category Archives: reactive attachment disorder

"Kate," Holding Therapy survivor: "Everyone in the room was helping to hurt me, and like a rapist, they told me when I just stopped fighting and took it like a good girl, everything would be okay."

Day 542. Survivors found: 8
This blog is being attacked and threatened with permanent suspension. I was not allowed to publish this survivor account until now because of this; WordPress is apparently caving to the collective demands of AT/Holding Therapy proponents Heather Forbes, Ronald Federici, Arthur Becker-Weidman and co.
This may very well be the last post [...]

Children's Song by R.S. Thomas

Day 400. Survivors found: 8
We live in our own world,
A world that is too small
For you to stoop and enter
Even on hands and knees,
The adult subterfuge.
And though you probe and pry
With analytic eye,
And eavesdrop all our talk
With an amused look,
You cannot find the centre
Where we dance, where we play,
Where life is still asleep
Under the closed [...]

The Alexis Glover Murder: Yet Another Pseudoscientific "Attachment Disorder" Diagnosis and Attachment Therapy Case

Day 382. Survivors found: 7
In order to better comprehend the implications of this case, I’ll be reviewing my previous posts on Alexis Glover before delving into the latest news revealing the circumstances of the child’s death.
In Memoriam: The “Disappearance” of 13-year-old Alexis Glover (Adoptive Mother Dumped Child’s Body in Creek)
This first post I wrote on [...]

The Murder of 13-year-old Alexis Glover: “My mom is going to kill me…nobody believes what I say…”

Day 364. Survivors found: 7
The death of 13-year old Alexis Glover has officially been ruled a homicide:
From ABC 7 Local News:
MANASSAS, Va. – A Prince William County mother stood before a judge Monday morning to answer questions about what really happened to her adopted 13-year-old daughter.
Alfreedia Glover says that her daughter Alexis ran away. Police, [...]

In Memoriam: The "Disappearance" of 13-year-old Alexis Glover (Adoptive Mother Dumped Child's Body in Creek)

Day 355. Survivors found: 6
From Virginia news outlet InsideNova.com:
Social workers, strangers honor Alexis Glover
By Keith Walker
Published: February 9, 2009
A memorial of stuffed animals, artificial flowers and a cross of hammered copper stands at the edge of a creek crossing Asdee Lane where Alexis Glover’s body was found Jan. 9.
The 13-year-old went missing two days earlier [...]