In this book, Jean Mercer evaluates a series of unconventional and potentially harmful psychological treatments that are rarely mentioned in the profession’s literature. Mercer guides readers to an un
Mercer reveals common misconceptions and outlines well-established facts and theories about how people form and maintain attachments or emotional ties to loved ones.
This book takes a natural and holistic approach to the study of developmental psychology by examining the processes of continuity and change as they are affected by the individual life-cycle, by the f
Candace Newmaker was an adopted girl whose mother felt the child suffered from an emotional disorder that prevented loving attachment. The mother sought attachment therapy--a fringe form of psychother
