Divorce Casualties: Protecting Your Children From Parental Alienation [Paperback]

Douglas Darnall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1998

Divorce Casualties helps parents recognize the often subtle causes of alienation and teaches them how to prevent or minimize its damaging effects. Dr. Darnall gives readers practical, specific techniques for recognizing and reversing the effects of alienation including a self-report inventory to help parents assess their own alienating behavior and exercises to help them understand and modify it.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing (October 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878332081
• ISBN-13: 978-0878332083
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #271,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding discussion on Parental Alienation Syndrome, October 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Divorce Casualties: Protecting Your Children From Parental Alienation (Paperback)

As a parent of a severely emotionally abused PAS child who suddenly turned her love for me into obsessive hatred, I can't recommend this book highly enough. I groped around for years not knowing why or how this could have happened to our once very tender and loving relationship. Now from this book I know why and I know how. Simply put my daughter was abused and poisoned by her mother and others with hatred of me, her father, instead of being instilled with love and respect for her father. This Dr. Darnall points out quite clearly in this masterpiece of a book on this very important subject about parental alienation and parental alienation syndrome. For any parent going through a divorce who truly loves their children and doesn't want them to spend the rest of their lives in pain and suffering over the loss of a parent for no good reason, other than one parent's obsessive hatred of the other, then you must read this book.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Darnall Offers Important Insights on Parental Alientation, October 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Divorce Casualties: Protecting Your Children From Parental Alienation (Paperback)

Divorce Casualties adds a new dimension to the work that already exists on the topic of parental alienation. Parental alienation involves the phenomenon of parents subjecting their ex-spouse to oftentimes-unwarranted ridicule and rejection at the hands of their own children. The children, in essence, become pawns in a full-scale war launched by the disgruntled, jealous, or possibly vengeful ex-spouse/parent. The unfortunate and extremely damaging events associated with parental alienation have the potential to effectively sever the ex-spouse's relationship with their children, while permanently altering the developmental processes of the children who are entrenched in this unhealthy context.

Dr. Darnall's book is easy to read, as well as extremely informative. His use of case studies adds great depth, while ensuring a thorough understanding of the subject-matter. Best of all, regardless of your marital or relational status, this book contains valuable parenting insights targeted at strengthening the relationship that you and your child(ren) share.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More of a self help book, November 5, 2004

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Michael and Candice (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Divorce Casualties: Protecting Your Children From Parental Alienation (Paperback)

This book gives lots of senarios that will probably sound familiar. The author doesn't go into solutions about the "other parent" alienating children. This is a great book if you are having trouble with your own emotions and putting your own feelings in front of the childrens best interests. It is a Alienation 101 type of book. If you have read numerous books and articles about how alienation works and why it happens and you can rise above it then this book is probably not for you. Also, if you don't think you have contributed to at least minor alienation or counteralienation then it's probably a good idea to read this book but with a very open mind. This book is a good resource to grasp the idea of alienation and to take a good look at your own actions. I would then recommend reading Divorce Poison by Dr. Richard Warshak. It offers proactive ways of actually protecting your children from alienation that you don't have control over. i.e. your ex spouse, grandparents, etc.