Debut Novel Explores and Explodes Attachment Therapy Barbara Barrow’s intriguing new novel, The Quelling (Lanternfish Press, September 25) explores a psychological treatment called attachment therapy. Although this innocuous name connects to attachment theory , which is legitimate (e.g., Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007), attachment therapy is controversial and dangerous, as the novel demonstrates ably. In The Quelling , two sisters, Addie and Dorian, are placed in a treatment facility as children and forced to grow up under the harmful influence of daily attachment therapy. Barrow has…