Category: parental alienation syndrome

  • Splitting: A Child’s Way to Cope with Being Alienated from a Parent

    Splitting: A Child’s Way to Cope with Being Alienated from a Parent

    I’ve often talked about it being unnatural for my mother to *hate” me so much that she did this to myself and my son. This video explains the way a child, in my case, my son, is forced to cope with being alienated from a targeted parent,. It all starts to make sense. i also…

  • A Life Lesson About Parental Alienation that I Learned In High School

    Life lessons. Learning the hard way sucks. If you’re a stubborn person, you already know this. My first job was at a movie theater in a mall. I was 15 years old, working part time, in a suburb of Dallas, where the mall was the local hang out for teenagers. I loved my job, selling…

  • THE BATTERER IN CUSTODY AND VISITATION DISPUTES

      (This R. Lundy Bancroft article was first posted at our sister blog Climbing Out Broken Windows, help end domestic violence) If you are involved in a custody battle with your abuser, this article is a must-read.  I have included below only the topics and first paragraph of each, click on the topic to read the…

  • P.A.S.: What Grief Does to the Body & What it did to mine (warning: graphic picture)

    What is Parental Alienation Syndrome or P.A.S. ? Parental alienation Syndrome (PAS) is a controversial term introduced by child psychiatrist Richard Gardner in 1985 to describe a distinctive suite of behaviors in children that includes – showing extreme, but unwarranted, fear, disrespect or hostility towards a parent. Parental alienation is the intentional targeting of a parent by the other…

  • P.A.S.: What Grief Does to the Body & What it did to mine (warning: graphic picture)

    What is Parental Alienation Syndrome or P.A.S. ? Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is a term introduced by child psychiatrist Richard Gardner in 1985 to describe a distinctive suite of behaviors in children that includes showing extreme but unwarranted fear, disrespect or hostility towards a parent. Parental alienation is the intentional targeting of a parent by the other parent, but…

  • Parental Alienation Taints Relationships and is Abuse

    When Ties to a Parent Are Cut by the Other Credit…Sylwia Kapuscinski for The New York TimesBy Michael WineripSept. 23, 2007 THIS is a nice moment in Joe Rabiega’s life. At 31, he has a good job as a research coordinator for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is happily married and…

  • Emptiness

  • Backlash Against Parental Alienation: Denial and Skepticism About Psychological Abuse

    By Richard A Warshack, Psychologist and expert on P.A.S. @richardwarshack This post is in honor of Parental Alienation Awareness Day—April 25. A boy wrote a letter to his mother telling her that she belonged in a mental institution, that she was nothing to him, that she was nothing but a screw-up, that she was sick,…

  • Poisoned Hearts – How Parental Alienation Hurts

    I am going to focus my attention for a while on Parental Alienation Syndrome. I encourage comments and ideas from the readers. (From Wikipedia):Parental alienation syndrome was a term coined by child psychiatrist Richard A. Gardner.  He defines Parental Alienation Syndrome as “a disorder that arises primarily in the context of child-custody disputes. Its primary manifestation is…

  • When he kills me…

    Dear Presiding Justice, Police Officers, Senators, Legislators, Doctors, Clergy, Parish Members, Family and Friends: I am a battered woman. Do you remember me?  I was your neighbor.  I sat next to you in church every Sunday. I was your patient in the emergency room. I was the woman who dialed 911 and begged for your…

  • Parental Alienation Do’s and Don’ts

    What you do and don’t do when as a loving parent you are confronted with a severe case of Parental Alienation Syndrome in your child? PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME – DO’S DO…start to immediately educate yourself, your lawyer, your Judge, your psychologist and your child, if possible, about PAS. This is one of the most widespread…

  • Parental Alienation & Grief

    The parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is a disorder that arises primarily in the context of child-custody disputes. Its primary manifestation is the child’s campaign of denigration against a parent, a campaign that has no justification. It results from the combination of a programming (brainwashing) parent’s indoctrinations and the child’s own contributions to the vilification of…

  • Parental Alienation & Grief

    The parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is a disorder that arises primarily in the context of child-custody disputes. Its primary manifestation is the child’s campaign of denigration against a parent, a campaign that has no justification. It results from the combination of a programming (brainwashing) parent’s indoctrinations and the child’s own contributions to the vilification of…

  • Hostile? Leave the kids out of it…

    “Brainwashing” is a concept “too narrow” (Gardner, 1989) to capture the psychological manipulation involved in turning a child against his/her non-residential parent.

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