Popular psychology

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 109. Chapters: Amy Applebaum, Ann Faraday, Anthony Robbins Foundation, Anti-Victim, Ask Ann Landers, Astrology, Attachment therapy, Barbara De Angelis, Barrie Leslie Konicov, Belief-desire-intention model, Bodymind, Bridey Murphy, Cinderella complex, Contagious shooting, Cosmos and Psyche, Dear Abby, Denis Waitley, Destructotherapy, DISC assessment, Dr. Phil (TV series), Edward de Bono, Emotional baggage, Emotional intelligence, Emotional reasoning, Empty nest syndrome, Families and How to Survive Them, First Person Plural: My Life As a Multiple, Forte Communication Style Profile, Freudian slip, Games People Play (book), God complex, Harold H. Bloomfield, Hater (Internet), Herbivore men, Impostor syndrome, Inner child, Inner critic, James J. Crist, John Gray (U.S. author), Journeys with the Black Dog, Leisure Sickness, Life and How to Survive It, Louise Hay, Lucinda Bassett, M. Scott Peck, Make a mountain out of a molehill, Martha Mitchell effect, Martyr complex, Mental breakdown, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, Messiah complex, Mind control, Moral intelligence, Motivational speaking, Mozart effect, Nice guy, Patrick Wanis, Pauline Phillips, Personal boundaries, Phil McGraw, Prairie madness, Prometheus Rising, Psychobabble, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Reality tunnel, Reverse psychology, Robert E. Griswold, Shock value, Sid Parnes, Spiritual intelligence, Spiritual quotient, Subliminal messages in popular culture, Sunday night blues, Superficial charm, Superman complex, Survivor guilt, Sybil (book), The Art of Seduction, The Feeling Good Handbook, The Highly Sensitive Person (book), The Myth of Mars and Venus, The True Believer, Tim Hurson, Tony Buzan, Tony Robbins, Troll (Internet), Voting correctly, Women Who Love Too Much. Excerpt: Attachment therapy is the most commonly used term for a controversial category of alternative child mental health interventions intended to treat attachment disorders. The term generally includes accompanying parenting techniques. Other names or particular techniques include "the Evergreen model", "holding time", "rage-reduction", "compression therapy", "rebirthing", "corrective attachment therapy" and Coercive Restraint Therapy. It is found primarily but not exclusively in the United States and much of it is centered in about a dozen clinics in Evergreen, Colorado where Foster Cline, one of the founders, established his clinic in the 1970s. This article describes this particular set of interventions although in clinical literature the term "attachment therapy" is sometimes used loosely to mean any intervention based, or claiming to be based, on attachment theory, particularly outside the USA. Attachment therapy as described in this article should not be confused with other schools of therapy which are more empirically based and which aim to address problems stemming from disrupted attachment to caregivers. Attachment therapy is a treatment used primarily with fostered or adopted children who have behavioral difficulties, sometimes severe, but including disobedience and perceived lack of gratitude or affection for their caregivers. The children's problems are ascribed to an inability to attach to their new parents, because of suppressed rage due to past maltreatment and abandonment. The common form of attachment therapy is holding therapy, in which a child is firmly held (or lain upon) by therapists or parents. Through this process of...