Agreed, there's too much at stake to go in blind -- and I believe that there has been far more harm done than people know.

But how concrete does it need to be to back it up for you? What's there now is woefully inadequate, I agree. Just for reference how do you feel about the theory of relativity? There were predictions which came out accurate for that one, for sure.

I think psychology needs some good theories and just doesn't have them yet, and no way to generate them in the current professional and academic climate. Kind of like medicine before the germ theory of disease.

ETA: HOWEVER, there is an excellent post in the Attachment Disorders forum that has a lot more than I ever knew about attachment!! Maybe the science of psychology IS getting somewhere, just not in the therapies yet. Here's the link:

http://forums.psychcentral.com/attac...ttachment.html