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The Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Guide for Mental Health and Legal Professionals Paperback – January, 1992

by Richard A. Gardner (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-0933812246 ISBN-10: 0933812248

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Paperback: 348 pages
Publisher: Creative Therapeutics (January 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0933812248
ISBN-13: 978-0933812246
Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6.2 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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124 of 136 people found the following review helpful

Authoritative Analysis of Parental Alienation Syndrome

By Kenneth J. Dillon on March 5, 2000

Format: Paperback

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in court for 6 years for at least minimal contact with my sons, I did a good deal of research on PAS and even wrote an unpublished book manuscript that dealt in part with PAS.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.Read more ›

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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful

A must read for any parent involved in divorce

By A Customer on September 22, 1997

Format: Paperback

This review will be short by design.There has never been a more important work ever done in matters of emotional child abuse and/or brainwashing where one parent to a divorce wants to alienate their child against the other parent out of spite or revenge. For those parents who become the target of such alienation and who don't understand the sudden hateful and hurtful behavior of their now brainwashed and alienated child toward them, this book will give you the answers you need.It will be for those parents like having an illness that no one can diagnose until one day you find a doctor that can easily spot your condition because of all the easily identifiable symptoms that he alone seems to know where everyone else is groping in the dark for the proper diagnosis. As the author says toward the end of the book..." when I describe these symptoms to parents who have encountered this problem with their children, they all tell me..'It's as if you have been living in my house for the past year'"

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful

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By Suzy Butterfly on March 25, 2002

Format: 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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67 of 83 people found the following review helpful

We were living PAS, and didn't know it had a name...

By A Customer on October 7, 1999

Format: Paperback

If you know of an expert willing to look at our case and testify in court (fully compensated of course), please email us. As a divorced mother, finding the man of my dreams seemed very far away, until it unexpectedly happened in 1994. I got along fine with my ex, and my son saw his dad as often as possible, twice as much as the court papers stated. It never occurred to me to NOT let him go, or to even utter a negative comment about my ex or his new family. My son was thriving with 2 moms, and soon to be 2 dads. However, the mother of my step-son was the opposite of me. She not only withheld visitation, she actually believed she was doing it "for the best interest of her son". She was (is) extremely overprotective of him, yet is not affectionate with him (no hugs/no kisses), must sleep with him, bathe with him *which we believe we got stopped with the help of a psychiatrist when he was 8*, instills fear in him regarding normal childhood activities, ie: riding a bike ("if you ride a bike, a car will hit you and you will die"), swimming ("If you go out of the baby pool, you'll drown even if a grown-up is with you"), amusement park rides, "Those things break all the time and lots of little kids die because they ride them"), and on and on. Of course these conversations the mother had with the child were at the same time she would find out we (dad and stepmom) were going to take the kids swimming, camping, boating, vacation, etc. Thus, the child would refuse to even try anything we had planned. Although she scared him into not riding a bike until he was over 7 years old, she would always duplicate whatever we bought him. (bike, clothing, toys, etc).Read more ›

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The Near Opposite of Parental Affection

This book would be helpful for a parent who is dealing with the other parent who is doing his/her best to make their child see that parent in a bad light. Read more

Published 4 months ago by E. B.

Written from male sexist view point. Out of date ...

Written from male sexist view point. Out of date. Does not explain what men and judges do to mothers.

Published 6 months ago by Margaret Motheral

Very insightful and informative on PAS

It was very informative . Thebook seems to be right on for someone experiencing this in their lives. It rang very true for me. Read more

Published 20 months ago by Darin

Definitive

Officially according to the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association Parental Alienation Syndrome is not a disorder. But it exists. Read more

Published 21 months ago by Dr. Robert Karman

Wise Before His Time

In creating this monumental work, Dr.Richard Gardner's was a pioneer that succeeded in piercing the false alibies of parents that had alienated their children. Read more

Published 24 months ago by J. A. Fernandez

A now-classic work

An excellent, only slightly dated, overview of the alienation phenomenon. Although it was updated a few years later, I wanted to review the original edition and was not... Read more

Published on May 24, 2013 by Modigliani8901

Priceless For Parents experiencing PAS

The Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Guide for Mental Health and Legal Professionals was so helpful to me as the Alienated parent of two boys. Read more

Published on September 17, 2012 by JmoRee

Superb, Seminal Book - A Classic

The 2nd edition of this seminal book (first edition published in 1992) was published in 1998. Its author, child psychiatrist Richard A. Gardner, unfortunately died in 2003. Read more

Published on April 17, 2011 by Nathanael Greene

PARENTAL ALIENATION SYDROME IS JUNK SCIENCE

According to Newsweek magazine, in 2007 the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges denounced the theory (of PAS) as "junk science," and several states have passed... Read more

Published on October 30, 2010 by Maya Angelou

Buy it, read it, believe it.

This is an excellent book, well thought out and highly professional.
(unlike the "thera-puke" style of pathetic **anonymous** reviews entered here, or under the usual... Read more

Published on August 4, 2008 by IAN