Don't we all agree on that, for goodness' sake?
One would think so, but apparently a lot of people practice these quack therapies.
A lot of very well-intentioned parents get sucked into dangerous "therapies" for their children. That poor little adopted girl in Utah, whose mother was just recently convicted in her death, was subjected to a lot of this "attachment therapy" stuff, until one manifestation of it, "forced water drinking", accompanied by forced exercise, finally killed her. Both parents testified that a therapist told them to do these things to the little girl (who IIRC was 4 years old when she was killed).
Attachment disorder? A child would have to be totally insane to form any kind of attachment to adults who are doing these sorts of things to them, no matter how sincerely the adults may believe they are helping the child. So of course they continue to show signs of not being "attached" to the parents, and the therapists decree that this means more of the therapy is needed (and more of the parents' money of course). These types of alternative psychotherapies often constitute a sort of cult-like abuse, in which leaders claim to have the only right answer to the problem, and the followers are brainwashed into ignoring blatant evidence that the cult leader's "answer" is wrong.