FilingCabinet100 What I would say about this particular documentary is that, if you look carefully there are some, somewhat disguised, elements of coercion and restraint within the therapy. The locking of Maisie's legs by her adopters and the holding of her wrists and waist are not there to prevent her from harming herself it seems. These are classic HT/AT techniques which incorporate deliberately distressing the child and then retraining her when she reacts, This puts the child in a kind of double-bind situation where there is no way out.
The therapy, only ends when the child breaks down or capitulates. The way this film portrays it is, I feel, designed to disguise the need to produce submission by the child to the adopters.
The reason why this documentary is so potentially dangerous is because this is precisely the kind of promotion that was used in the US and, to a lesser extent, the UK to act as a cover for more overtly aggressive techniques that were used in private.
Remember, this film was produced for an audience and each person was essentially playing a role - they, and the company,knew this was being filmed. What worries me is that the organisation that the young man in my blog was placed in had used very similar marketing techniques to promote their form of therapy as nurturing.