Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Why No Knowledgeable Person Would Say Avoiding a Divorced Parent Means an Attachment Disorder

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Five years ago, I wrote a post on this blog—childmyths.blogspot.com/2015/08/craig-childress-tries-to-drag.html—where I expressed my concern...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Nonsense, Pseudoscience, and Parental Alienation

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My other blog, which I’m afraid I’ve neglected for years, is called The Study of Nonsense. This phrase is a quotation from some brilliant ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

"Promising" Parental Alienation Treatments and Confusing Terminology

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I recently mentioned discussions about “parental alienation” (PA) on the World Health Organization website, where there is ongoing discuss...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

ICD-11 Rejects "Parental Alienation"

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Readers who are aware of the fight against accusations of “parental alienation” (PA) probably know that some years ago PA advocates were...
Friday, March 6, 2020

The Fight Over Parental Alienation (PA)

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A number of publications in professional journals in the last few years have argued strongly against the idea of parental alienation (PA...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

Banning a Potentially Harmful Treatment for Children

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According to an article in the Washington Post ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/2020/03/05/electric-shock-fda-ban ), the U.S. Food and Dru...
Monday, February 24, 2020

PA, CC, and ABAB

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I recently had an inquiry from a mother who is about to face a child custody trial in which a fan of Craig Childress is advising her oppon...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Getting Emails From Forbrain(TM)?

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In the last several months I’ve had several emails from an outfit called Forbrain™. These emails give purely anecdotal evidence for the us...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Can Policemen Be Trained to Identify Parental Alienation? (Not Kidding Here, Unfortunately)

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I hear from concerned people in the Netherlands that a new issue about “parental alienation” (PA) has arisen. Not only are some divorced p...

Infant Mental Health: When a Mother Takes the Baby to the ER Too Often

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I have been neglecting this blog so badly, because a lot of my time in the last six months has been taken up by writing and talking about ...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Why Parental Alienation Should Not Be Indexed in ICD-11: Caveat Woozles

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As many readers already know, the term “parental alienation” (PA) refers to a parent-child situation and to the explanation of that situat...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Childress Brings Lloyd DeMause to APA

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When I realized that Craig Childress and his life coach sidekick Dorcy Pruter had had a paper accepted for presentation at the 2019 conv...