Clinical Disturbances of Attachment in Young Children

By Charles H. Zeanah, MD

What is clear is that a variety of so-called "attachment therapies" should be avoided. These treatments are often provided to children or adolescents with a history of early deprivation or maltreatment and a clinical picture characterized by "psychopathic qualities," such as shallow or fake emotions, superficial connections to others, lack of remorse, and failures of empathy.

Non-contingently coercive therapies, including "compression holding therapies," "rebirthing therapies," or promotion of regression for "re-attachment," have no empirical support for efficacy and have been associated with serious harm, including death.

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