Category Archives: religion

Attachment Therapy survivor Katrina: adoptee and former child patient of convicted child molester Thomas Gill speaks out about torture and exorcism by Kathie Bishop

Day 712. Survivors found: 10
Read part one of this account here first.
Over the years, I was “treated” by attachment therapists Nonie and Bruce Wilson in Portland, Oregon, Kathie Leah Bishop in Eugene, Oregon and Tom Gill and Beverly Cuevas in Washington.
There are so many things that happened, it is so hard to narrow it [...]

Attachment Therapy survivor Katrina: adoptee and former child patient of convicted child molester Thomas Gill speaks out publicly for the first time

Day 624. Survivors found: 9
I was adopted when I was four years old.
Over the years, I was “treated” by attachment therapists: Nonie & Bruce Wilson in Portland, Oregon; Kathie Leah Bishop in Eugene Oregon; Tom Gill & Beverly Cuevas in Washington.
The first time it happened I was about 7 years old. No one told me [...]

Child Abuse, Abandonment and Cultism: “What Would Jesus Do?!”

Day 608. Survivors found: 9
We’ve been having some good laughs here at anti-torture HQ over the unintentionally hilarious vitriol thrown by a handful of fundie AT/RAD cultists.
It’s hard enough to take the old “What Would Jesus Do” chestnut seriously after its hijacking by hipster outlet stores, but when it’s thrown around to justify anyone [...]

Smear Campaign: You're Doing It Wrong, AKA Attachment Therapists try to use Scientology to Further Harass ACT

Day 397. Survivors found: 7
This recent stunt by the Attachment Quack cabal is too stupid to dignify with a formal rebuttal, but it’s worth simply addressing just for its sheer, unintended comic value.
So, Ronald Federici supporters of Attachment Therapy have been knitting sockpuppet blogs and posting to the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, trying to argue that Advocates [...]

Attachment/Holding Therapy Inspired "Gay to Straight" Movement Leader

Day 361. Survivors found: 6
From ACT (Advocates for Children in Therapy):
[Martha] Welch’s Holding Time approach has been embraced by the “gay-to-straight” movement. Richard Cohen, in his 2000 book, Coming Out Straight, suggested that therapists can cure homosexuality — or parents could avoid it in the first place — with Welch’s method:
“I recommend the use of [...]