I’m not challenging the idea of attachment in children and attachment styles. Those have been well-documented. Just the idea that less-than-secure attachments can be corrected in adulthood by a relationship with a therapist.

Didn’t work for me. And left me worse off than when I started. Eventually I have made it through things. But it sounds like it continues to hurt others in this forum, too.

20 years ago there was a fad of “repressed memories” that proved largely bogus. And I remember “Primal Scream” and rebirthing therapies from years ago.

Searching the internet for “attachment therapy” I found some very harmful therapies for children that have now been largely, I guess, discredited.

What do you all think? And if it works for some, but is harmful to others, what warnings and disclaimers do you think might help adult clients when they are considering the “attachment disorder” idea?