My work with, and research on, children with disorders of attachment was mischaracterized in the article, “Coercive Restraint Therapies,” by Jean Mercer, which was also previously published on the Web. The techniques that Mercer describes as CRT [coercive restraint therapy] are never appropriate, and I do not use such methods in my work. I practice Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, which is a relationship-focused approach based on attachment and developmental theories, for treating children with disorders of attachment. Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy’s central therapeutic mechanism is the development and maintenance of a contingent collaborative and affectively attuned relationship between therapist and child, between caregiver and child, and between therapist and caregiver. These principles, and the therapeutic approach that is Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, are generally understood to be within the mainstream of current thinking in the field of attachment research and practice.

You're safe in dismissing his critics.

Just take a close look.

Jean Mercer never had a license, so she's never had patients to treat, all she knows is the academic side.

Then, her own adoption was a failure and her son's been in trouble for impersonating a lawyer.

Larry W. Sarner is a real sideshow. He claimed to have invented a better voting machine, and scammed the Luce family out of millions back when it was real money. They went after him in court. He claimed the inventor of calculus was out to get him and the court tossed his argument.

It was so bad not only he but, also his wife, Linda Rosa, went bankrupt. Now they run a web site on child torture methods. Horrible!

Monica Pignotti was recently fired from a teaching job because of sexual innuendos about other faculty members. Plus, she is a luddite and demanded that the school stop using the Internet.

The lawyer for the child torture blog is Tiffany Radish. She filed a case against a doctor and lost. It was her first case out of law school and now John Dozier won't even hire her as a secretary.

Her blog is on livejournal which is notorious for supporting pedophilia.