Monthly Archives: April 2018

In the hidden and darkest places of the alienated child’s mind lie secrets in waiting. Those hidden and darkest places are unknown to the child but they exist. A diverticulitis of the psyche, passages leading to places inhabited by demons. This is why madness grows in the mind of the child and as they growContinue reading “In the Mind of the Alienated Child”

 

      In the struggle with parental alienation many things are written and said.  Many people work hard to understand, explain and resolve the problem and many are left feeling helpless and hopeless in the face of this task. Parental alienation is the cruellest human condition.  In my view it compares only to aContinue reading “The Church of the Poisoned Mind”

We are starting to get busy about the future of parental alienation at the Family Separation Clinic with a year which is packed full of activity designed to raise awareness, train new practitioners, develop a new membership and governance organisation and generally being the change we want to see in the world.  After an incrediblyContinue reading “Around the World Conferences and Training on Parental Alienation”

An absorption with the self is a classic trait of narcissism. This absorption is total and not just the self indulgent symptoms of a society which is concerned with how we look to others online and elsewhere.  For the narcissist, the whole world begins and ends with how they feel  and whether or not theyContinue reading “The Narcissist’s Nightmare”

This week we launch training opportunities in Costa Mesa California for practitioners who wish to understand and work with alienated children and their families.  This is part of our development of the services of the Family Separation Clinic to a worldwide audience. The Family Separation Clinic is a pioneering organisation working directly with alienated childrenContinue reading “FSC Worldwide: Training Opportunities in Costa Mesa California – June 2018”

Readers might be in interested in this you tube talk. The work done by this man (Ronald P Rohner) has led to a paper by Professor Bill Bernet and colleagues in which they investigate whether there is an objective measure of psychological splitting. Psychological splitting is seen in severely  alienated children. This work is soContinue reading “What if there was a way to explain the harm done to an alienated child.”

I work with alienated children and their families, it is what I do.  I have this year however, been taking a rest from the reunification work I have undertaken over the past decade or more, in order to refresh and recharge my heart.  I am doing so because I am in the thick of researchContinue reading “The Incredible Kindness of The Human Heart”

Some years ago I wrote a piece entitled ‘I am the Alienator*’ which has now been read over a hundred thousand times in over thirty countries around the world.  This piece, which was actually written from the house where I was working with a diagnosed narcissistic  parent, is really nothing more than my observations of howContinue reading “Caught in the Mirror: The Human Face of Narcissism”