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Originally Posted by BudFox
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As for adults with attachment disorders and so on, I think a major fallacy is this idea that therapists can be trained to work with such people. What does "work with" even mean? Usually it's implied to mean having a relationship wherein the client "attaches" to the therapist, learns how to have a secure attachment, then re-enters the world fixed. This ain't exactly scientific, nor even logic-based. It's more like a religious conversion. My guess is that this process is nearly always improvised, and thus is not really a "process" at all, but a psychological experiment, carried out on the backs of clients.
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The hypothesis about attachment
might be a good idea to try out, maybe, if it was listed as a clinical trial, clients know that it was, and data were collected from the clients undergoing such "treatment". As it is, when the "treatment" fails, as it has for a number of us in this forum, including me, the client is nearly always thrown back on their own resources, frequently worse off than before "treatment", or given referrals to other "experimenters", but
no results or feedback data are ever collected. So the myth/fad perpetuates until. . .the next fad therapy comes around.