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5.0 out of 5 stars Damn Good Book, Oct 13 2002

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James B+ (santa cruz, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Guide for Mental Health and Legal Professionals (Paperback)

Clear, clean,professional analysis of psychotic child abuse in
custody and child support litigation.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mirror Reverse, Mar 25 2002

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Suzy Butterfly (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Guide for Mental Health and Legal Professionals (Paperback)

My sister found this book a lifesaver.

She does not have a clinical background, but she could finally give a name to what her husband was doing to the children. She was the alienated parent -- a mirror reverse from the traditional.

She highly recommends this author. Also she recommends his followup book **Therapeutic Interventions for Children with Parental Alienation Syndrome** by Richard A. Gardner.

If any part of these books will help my sister get out of her miserable situation, then they are worth their weight in gold.

MjM

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5.0 out of 5 stars Authoritative Analysis of Parental Alienation Syndrome, Mar 6 2000

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Kenneth J. Dillon (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

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I am the father of two sons who were alienated from me according to the pattern described and analyzed by Dr. Gardner in this book. In the process of fighting in court for 6 years for at least minimal contact with my sons, I did a good deal of research on PAS and even wrote an unpublished book manuscript that dealt in part with PAS. I.e., I know what I am talking about, and not just from the perspective of my own case. I consider Dr. Gardner's book to be a major contribution to social psychology. This book was the first to define and articulate the dynamics of PAS. Dr. Gardner takes great pains to distinguish PAS from other phenomena and to provide one detail after another than can help an observer to diagnose a given case. He shows a keen appreciation for the pressures on the children and the differing behaviors of oldest and younger children. Many of his observations will strike a person going through a PAS case as uncannily predictive. His characterization of the pathological behavior of lawyers, psychologists, and judges in many of these cases is damning. It certainly fit the "professionals" who mishandled our case or used it for their personal gain. Dr. Gardner's prescriptions for reform of the psychological and legal handling of these cases are useful. Equally helpful is his unflappable common sense. He spent years dealing with family problems at US Army bases in Germany and has seen just about every crazy situation imaginable. So he is not fooled, as are many observers, by the endless allegations of the alienating parent against the allegedly hated parent. Nor does he hesitate to put the obsessive denigrators in their place, if need be. My research turned up two sources of statistical evidence that corroborated Dr. Gardner's finding that roughly 9 out of 10 of the alienating parents are the mothers. PAS is one of those phenomena that the media seem incapable of reporting accurately and analytically, or even reporting at all. Yet psychologists are coming to see that it is quite widespread. Indeed, PAS may account for a certain portion of the fathers who are said not to care for their kids. If you want to understand PAS, there is no better place to look than Dr. Gardner's book.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A reader in Anchorage, Alaska
Gardner's self-published work is extremely deficient scientifically, exhibits extreme gender-bias toward women and assumes that all women are vindictive and all children are... Read more

Published on Aug 11 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars Creative Thera-Puke
I am a dad in Dallas Texas. If moms are so good at programming children, as Gardner submits, children would be cleaning up their rooms! Read more

Published on Aug 7 2001