Psychological manipulation an expert explains parental alienation
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Treatment and Prevention of Parental Alienation
Parental alienation (PA) profoundly affects both children and alienated parents. Children of PA are at increased risk for future trust and relationship issues, depression, and substance abuse. For a rejected parent, the pain is excruciating. This article discusses PA from two points of view. The first part relates an account of PA from the perspective …
Parental Alienation: How and When Does It Start?
Discover surprising answers from early marriage and parenting. During 40 years of being a child and adult psychiatrist, and 20 years as a forensic child psychiatrist, I discovered one of the unsavory ways automatic living plays out. This occurs in parental alienation (PA). Parental alienation begins long before divorce occurs. In this blog post, I will talk about why PA is …
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What Is Parental Alienation?
Dr. Richard A. Gardner (1985) coined the term “Parental Alienation Syndrome”. To describe, “a psychological disturbance in children who are obsessed with depreciation and criticism of a parent without legitimate cause such as abuse”. While controversy surrounds whether this disorder is technically a syndrome – there is clearly a phenomenon whereby a custodial parent may …
Parental Alienation Syndrome: What Is It, and Who Does It?
What kind of parent lies to turn their kids against the other parent? Recently, in my clinical practice, I’ve seen a huge uptick in cases of parental alienation. Instead of talking cooperatively in the manner, I teach in my book The Power of Two, these spouses and ex-spouses are interacting as adversaries. Worse, they’ve developed an exaggeratedly negative view, …
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Parental Alienation, DSM-V, and ICD-11
Abstract Parental alienation is an important phenomenon that mental health professionals should know about and thoroughly understand, especially those who work with children, adolescents, divorced adults, and adults whose parents divorced when they were children. We define parental alienation as a mental condition in which a child—usually one whose parents are engaged in a high-conflict …