Attachment therapy is in no way connected to attachment theory, yet it may have been the intention of attachment therapy practitioners to align their extreme and unsupported practices with the respect of attachment theory. There was a vacuum created after the discoveries of attachment theory, for it only demonstrated how mental and emotional conditions, such as Beth's, are caused, and attachment theory does not detail, describe or indicate any practices that lead to the recovery of the mental and emotional conditions it suggests arise from neglect or abuse of the attachment process. It was this vacuum of 'no treatment for proved mental and emotional conditions' in which attachment therapy proponents grew.