sentences:  Age regression has become quite controversial inside and outside the therapeutic community, with many cases involving alleged child abuse and other traumatic incidents subsequently being discredited.The notion of age regression is central to attachment therapy whose proponents believe that a child who has missed out on his/her developmental stages can be made to experience those stages at a later age by a variety of techniques.Many of these techniques are intensely physical and confrontational and include forced holding and eye contact, sometimes while being required to access traumatic memories of past neglect or abuse or while being made to experience extreme emotions such as rage or fear.