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Parental Alienation Syndrome

By John E. Harding, JD, CFLS

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Parental Alienation Syndrome ("PAS") is a hot topic in family law. There is a school of support for PAS, and a school adverse to it as a junk science. The essence of the theory is that one parent poisons the child emotionally and psychologically against the other parent.

Dr. Richard A. Warshak is a clinical, consulting, and research psychologist in private practice in Dallas, Texas with more than thirty years experience. He grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., graduated from Midwood High School, and earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 from U.T.?s Southwestern Medical Center where is now a Clinical Professor of Psychology and a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr. Warshak is past president of the Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and he sits on the Editorial Board of three professional journals. He maintains a website devoted to PAS and the psychology of children and divorce. Please click here to visit the site.

On Dr. Warshak's site you will also see reference to the PAS research of Richard A. Gardner, M.D. As explained by Dr. Warshak:

Richard A. Gardner, M.D. introduced the term parental alienation syndrome and pioneered its study. In his efforts to assist people who were interested in learning about parental alienation syndrome and educating courts about PAS and its acceptance in the scientific community, and in response to misrepresentations that work on PAS had not been published in scientific journals, Dr. Gardner maintained on his Web site a list of references on parental alienation syndrome, a list of legal citations, a list of professional conferences on parental alienation syndrome, and a list of lectures that Dr. Gardner had been invited to deliver on parental alienation syndrome. In May 2003 Dr. Gardner passed away. Eventually the Web site that bears his name will be closed. Aware of the importance of these reference lists, Dr. Gardner's family asked me to post them on my site.

You can review Dr. Garnder's materials by clicking here.

Please be sure to visit www.hardinglaw.com, the website for the law firm of Harding & Associates, for more information on California family law.

Full post as published by California Divorce Blawg on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).