Despite the efforts of political ideological groups to prevent it, on May 25th 2019, the World Health Organisation accepted the current version of ICD-11 which contains within it the index term parental alienation for the code QE.52 Caregiver-Child Relationship Problem.
The press release from the WHO begins…
Member states agreed today to adopt the eleventh revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), to come into effect on 1 January 2022.
ICD is the foundation for the identification of health trends and statistics globally, and the international standard for reporting diseases and health conditions. It is the diagnostic classification standard for all clinical and research purposes. ICD defines the universe of diseases, disorders, injuries and other related health conditions.
The ICD also captures factors influencing health, or external causes of mortality and morbidity, providing an holistic look at every aspect of life that can affect health.
Despite the late wave of organised women’s rights memos and signatures to prevent the inclusion of PA in ICD-11, some of which came from the very people CAFCASS in the UK rely upon in their professed understanding of parental alienation, the WHO has not bowed to the pressure of misinformation and false news about parental alienation. No longer misrepresented as a tool for abusive ex partners to use in divorce and separation, finally parental alienation is recognised for the mental health problem it really is.
In this evolving field of work and understanding of a child’s unjustified rejection of a parent after divorce and separation, we now find ourselves at the turning point of before and after ICD-11.
A child’s unjustified rejection of parent after divorce and separation is now defined as a caregiver-child relationship problem recognised by the World Health Organisation. That care-giver-child relationship problem is already well defined in the scientific literature which is now being developed at a rapid pace. Away from the politicised reduction of the problem to that of a weapon in a war about ‘contact’ with a parent after separation, the nuances of the problem, which are interwoven deeply in the fabric of society, family, interpersonal relationships, attitudes towards children and the psychology of divorce and separation are being understood, evidenced and addressed.
The inclusion of parental alienation as the index term in iCD-11 comes after a long campaign led by Professor William Bernet, head of the Parental Alienation Study Group who has worked tirelessly to reach this day. Finally the psychological manipulation of children of divorce and separation has the recognition generations of children have desperately needed us to achieve for them.
His work will not be wasted by those of us who understand the suffering caused by the harm done to children and families affected by parental alienation.
Karen Woodall 
Great news. 👏👏👏👏Well done to all involved in the field at the coal face and all the research professionals. Against mighty pressure and obstruction you have all overcome the denial and corruption preventing Parental Alienation from being recognized. Warriors and Healers you all are. Ahead of the curve trailblazers. Light workers and light bringers. There is still much work to be done. One small but essential step for children and families which has taken many giant leaps and great effort and energy by brave and focused tenacious individuals and teams.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
… and so will be the healers.
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If parental alienation is real, why does it only happen to divorced parents?
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Do moms have no rights? I’ll let readers respond to that, is PA junk science? I’ll let readers answer that one, not sure about your question above, I can’t really make sense of it but someone else might.
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@Wyatt’s Mommy:
That’s like asking: “If the moon is real, why does it only happen at night?”
The answer is that they are both real and don’t only happen in the circumstances posed by the questions.
Karen, please correct me if I’m wrong but alienation does exist in some intact homes, it’s just not as easy to become so extreme or noticeable when both parents and the child share a home. In homes where the couple stays married, it is more likely to be considered that family’s dynamic, albeit a dysfunctional one.
In cases of divorce, the physical separation into different homes and different lives allows the aligned parent to have greater control as to when and how the child can see or speak with the other parent. It’s easier for the child to withdraw completely and to reject the other parent when they don’t have to see them, speak with them, interact with them, or be physically near them everyday. And because the court system is involved in divorce cases and part of the process involves discussing custody and parent/child relations, the alienation dynamic/dysfunction is brought into public awareness when the court learns that the child is rejecting one parent without valid cause but with the support of the other parent. I imagine the adversarial nature of divorce also serves as a catalyst for a person with muted empathy response to go from more mild forms of expressing controlling behaviors to aggressively acting on alienating behaviors.
All that said, the simple answer to your question is: just as the moon exists in the daytime, but is more visible at night, so too does alienation exist when divorce isn’t a factor, but is more obvious when the parents are divorced.
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Great response higbye
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https://reseauiml.wordpress.com/2020/02/23/world-health-organization-removes-parental-alienation-from-its-classification-index/
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I remain of the view that childrens psychological, emotional and mental health is not synonymous with the rights of their mothers.
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It doesn’t. It can happen within families too.
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Hi Karen
Great to see that at the end of the day the WHO prefers science and evidence to ideological dogma. Compare and contrast this approach with Cafcass(Cymru) who’s selective review of literature and caselaw was authored by not just one or even two people that opposed inclusion of PA in ICD 11, but, in fact all three of the authors opposed the evidence and court findings of the last two decades in a last ditch attempt to favour their pet ideologies.
The culprits were Dr Julie Doughty of Cardiff University Law school and Drs Tom Slater and Nina Maxwell of Cardiff University School of Social ‘Science’. (Emphasis added because that is an oxymoron if ever there was one!).
I do hope that Sir James Munby was speaking about people like these when he called for ‘INDEPENDENCE’ in any inquiry into the family courts. And, for the avoidance of doubt, he added,
‘‘Independent …of the judiciary, Whitehall, and of all pressure groups and other third parties. It would be vital that the research be published, whatever the conclusions.”
I really hope that Sir James and his supporters are heard when we call for an ‘Independent’ review of the family courts because the cabals amongst family law academics and charities have exerted a stranglehold upon the family courts. Between them the cabals ensured that many children’s childhoods have been an unnecessary misery because the social workers and the courts have prefered the preservation of ideological dogma to learning from judicial findings and doing their jobs in order to safeguard children.
Andrew Bridgen recently revealed that the incidence of suicide amongst non-resident parents was TWICE that of resident parents. Our work at NAAP shows that alienated parents account for the majority of this cohort. Therefore, the ideologues have blood upon their hands and should hang their heads in shame.
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padrestevie, I am intrested to review your work at NAAP and your research about alienated parents and suicide. could you guide me to how I can access this info? much obliged. Hey Freud!?
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Children have 2 biological parents. It is time that every court and every school, dentist, hospital GP, organisation, group, religion, party, etc etc recognised this basic human right of the child and treated both parents equally and fairly.
It is normal to have relationships with both parents and their extended families. Anything else is abnormal and must be avoided. It is known to cause emotional and developmental harm and damage. It is often transmitted between generations. Not a good mentally healthy framework for society to endorse. We are missing the moral input, societal value and good conduct teachings of the Church of England in the UK.
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About time!
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Amen to this amazing answer to prayer. What a relief for so many of us who are currently going through this nightmare. I can only hope my children will come away from this abuse with out too much emotional scars. This kind of abuse no child should ever have to go through .
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Wonderful news!!! Now to educate the court system, especially on recognizing the early signs of the alienating process. One the courts are educated so many children could be protected from this serious form of child abuse.
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This is real and it is a sickness. It happened to my brother, who now has no relationship with his 22yr old daughter. It is happening to me and my husband currently, by his ex wife for the past 4 years. It has been very damaging to his son who was 2 and is now 6. It has damaged both of our relationships with him. The judge doesnt seem to be concerned with the mental abuse the mother inflicts on her child day in, day out to destroy us. She hates her ex more than she loves her son. To lie to him daily and twist his little mind and heart. He has 2 new siblings, who also suffer when he comes to visit us. He is not allowed to talk about any of us at his mothers home. He has had to throw away pictures of his siblings, he is in fear that when we sing to him, his mother will hear him (in our home) and he will be in trouble. He cries and cries. Enough is enough.
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I am thankful to see parental alienation recognized. I receive many updates from karenwoodall.blog, and this positive news. I have been alienated from my children since their birth and I am still seeking help from government, private, and public sources. I pray each day that my children are alive and that I see them soon. In my case all my children were kidnapped by an alienating parent who instructed the courts to allow financial rewards and removal of rights a common standard. More than recognizing parental alienation needs to be done to save our children. American government leaders need to address equal parental rights in all divorce cases. In many cases constitutional protections and rights are ignored because every state in the union receives millions or billions in federal incentives to award sole custody to one parent. The problem needs to be addressed directly by Congress who is allowing this evil to exist for profit, instead of looking the other way. It has not been fair for both children and fathers for many decades now, and its seems that most of our nation’s fathers do not care about their children enough to make this change. Go figure, the only parents important to a child in America today are a mothers or alienators who often receive administrative, governmental, and private assistance to be a sole custodial parent. When fathers are mentioned, there is much surprise that a father is even in the picture after a divorce, since 70 to 90 percent of all rewards are for mothers to receive assistance to keep the children in custody.
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You got medication for alienation
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This rant is a complete and utter misrepresentation of American laws. It takes heaven and earth to get a fathers parental rights severed. What you are saying is simply not true.
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The above videos are just a few of the factors associated with America’s corrupt family court system. Many actions of the DHHS and DCSS do not require due process. More families than not are awarded custody solely to the mothers instead of fathers. It is not often fair to children or either parent. The life blood of the family court is protection orders, sole custody and child support without regard for equal parental rights. There are many American reports on the horrible injustices of court ordered custody arrangements. There must be a reform of the family court to reduce or eliminate the financial schemes for profiting from divorce and separation. I have retained every court filing in order to prove my case.
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Maybe you should do your research and check out just how many Fathers have their right terminated due to false information supplied , by any number of authorities and vindictive mothers.
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Thank you. I am also thankful for this forum that Karen Woodall has created. I started following the moment. All to often the decisions by both parents and courts to seperate the family unit takes five minutes to about an hour . Yet the children are the innocent parties; their lives are forever changed, often being seperated more from one parent and family.
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Wow. That’s not true. The world is not so black and white. Your comment maybe right in your experience but not in all experiences. The subject is complex and can be open to abuse but this recognition prevents alienating parents taking a simple but very dangerous route that can wreck lives. Men, women, children – we are all human and equal
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While I respect the fact that you are an alienated father, it does no one any good for you to turn this into a bad mothers vs good fathers issue. I was an alienated mother, and personally know two other alienated mothers who are fighting the courts for equal custody and rights because the children have aligned with their fathers and are rejecting their moms.. This is an alienating parents vs targeted parents issue, regardless of the genders of each. And for you to recognize it only in the context of males as the victims is to deny the alienation of a large population of females experiencing the same thing.
Thankfully those who work with alienated parents don’t discriminate based on gender, recognizing that the dysfunction itself doesn’t discriminate. Hearing that the WHO formally acknowledges PA is a huge step forward for all targeted dads AND moms, as well as for all of the many children worldwide who will reap the benefits of this recognition.
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Reblogged this on | truthaholics and commented:
“A child’s unjustified rejection of parent after divorce and separation is now defined as a caregiver-child relationship problem recognised by the World Health Organisation. That care-giver-child relationship problem is already well defined in the scientific literature which is now being developed at a rapid pace. Away from the politicised reduction of the problem to that of a weapon in a war about ‘contact’ with a parent after separation, the nuances of the problem, which are interwoven deeply in the fabric of society, family, interpersonal relationships, attitudes towards children and the psychology of divorce and separation are being understood, evidenced and addressed.
The inclusion of parental alienation as the index term in iCD-11 comes after a long campaign led by Professor William Bernet, head of the Parental Alienation Study Group who has worked tirelessly to reach this day. Finally the psychological manipulation of children of divorce and separation has the recognition generations of children have desperately needed us to achieve for them.”
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A million thank you for the work you’re doing to bring recognition to this family dysfunction, which the Judicial system in Canada fail to recognize as a first world nation. Very painful being the rejected parent after being the main full-time caregiver for my five kids for fifteen years. I’m convicted of lies by my ex-wife as a result of Parental Alienation.
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This is a big deal indeed. Respect to those who tirelessly and selflessly worked for this day to come.
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Reblogged this on ~Welcome To My Mind~.
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As the victim of PAS I appreciate all those who made efforts for this important achievement.
At present PAS is not considered in any court. I hope that hereafter all the courts in all the countries may take PAS as a series issue to save innocent children.
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This is wonderful news!
As I sit and think about my daughters, who I have been alienated from, I feel an inclining of hope in a seemingly endless nightmare.
I am in misery without my girls, who I raised by being a great father, always showing love, support and guidance. The core of this misery is knowing they are mentally poisoned by the one who keeps them.
And they are missing out on all that I have to offer them.
It is clear that parental alienation is a abnormal relationship between the parent and child brought on by the alienation parent. Some sort of fear that the alienating parent will lose allegiance / loyalty of the child to the targeted parent and does whatever it takes to not have that happen.
Clearly not a mentally healthy way of caring for a child.
Thank you everyone and anyone reading this who has contributed to raising this awful mental pathology to the surface.
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This is fantastic news and another step ahead to a hopeful future where Parental Alienation is not only acknowledged in the legal and mental health intersect but appropriately treated with standardised treatment protocols. I only just read recently of another such great step forward achieved in America this past November (2018). Here is a passage from the PASG media release:
“After a visit by PASG leaders to Capitol Hill; consultation with lobbying specialists in child
mental health; the submission of summaries of dozens of legal cases in which parental alienation
was judged to be a highly significant factor in child adjudication; and a year-long letter writing
campaign, PASG achieved the almost-impossible. We have influenced the U.S. Congress to
change the wording of H. Con. Res. 72. The paragraph that includes parental alienation as
“scientifically unsound theory” has been removed.”
Access full letter here: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/3678aa_7ccd266fee944fea926d4b05f22b48e7.pdf
Let’s just hope the ICD improves practise across all the countries it occurs.
Thank you to all who have worked tirelessly to make this happen.
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Reblogged this on Madison Elizabeth Baylis.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. Finally acting in children’s best interest,
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Hello
I am glad to see that there are human beings that still have compassion for parents and children and understanding that God’s bond given to a birth parent and child is a bond that should never be broken because of the internal connection that, once seperated, can truly cause more than pain. Is there any way to get a hold of Professor William Bennett for a my son and my separation from d.c.f.s that was not legally correct and plus harming to my son in do many ways. My name is Rosie and my number is 323 357-2545. If anyone who reads this can help me fight for my son’s return to his fame unit please call me or in text mess. God bless those parents and children who fell victim to this corrupt system of injustice decisions
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ThAnk god and just in time. Hopefully my beloved but estrAnged 40 year old daughter will now hear the term and therefore acknowledge what i have been trying to say for the last 20 years. It will probably though still kill me as the ungodly unending pain is too mucH TO LIVE WITH FOREVER. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH
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Although a Great accomplishment, it’s terribly sad that they would wait until January 2022 for it to go into effect. Knowing the damage being done and allowing it to continue for almost three more years is a disgrace.
In the mean time I will continue to pray to St Michael the archangel and Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina daily.
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What great news. First Cafcass last year and now WHO. I’m genuinely shocked. In years to come people will ask why it took so long to recognise this appalling form of abuse. And, like any abuse, it can be perpetrated by either parent.
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Hello. Your page is being shared again and again. Maybe not your page but this illness thing. My father shares it because my mother asked for a divorce and all the children sided with the mother. There is witnesses to have seen us be mentally physically and sexually assaulted as children. He has even been convicted of attacking me and gave out to the cops for not saying with a firearm. Because he did and they forgot to say it. What do you do to prevent evil animals like my father from using this illness as an excuse. There is witnesses to say he tried to have Dr’s turn off my life support after a car crash. So can you please try to prevent people like him using this as a way to justify their evil.
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I so need to share this!!!!!
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Good news for all the children. Congratulations to the people involved! Now let see how the education will be deployed from it, it is urgent.
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How is this going to pan out? Does this mean the end of Cafcass? Will all childcare contested court cases be handled by properly trained mental health specialists from the outset? Quicker early intervention?
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I contacted Professor William Bernet, head of the Parental Alienation Study Group by email yesterday and have just received a reply from him together with an invitation to join to join PASG. Thank you Karen for the link on here.
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Good for you Willow!!!
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What do you think – is it a good idea to let the alienated child know that he is the victim of such alienation? To say more – is it a good idea to give him links of articles to read? Will he possible believe and try to come back to his senses, or would it rather do more harm to his poor mind? I’m talking about 15 year old, very intelligent and bright boy. After all, what if he himself accidentally bumps onto this information on the Internet?
Thanks to those who answer.
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Vadim,
From my reading, it is not a good idea to send your child information about what’s happening to them. In doing so you are trying to have your child understand your perspective of an adult issue and you are putting the child in the middle. Amy Baker on her website states very well why you shouldn’t send info even to adult children as all it does in reinforce the child’s beliefs about you. As tempting as it is, you can only prove who you are as a parent by your actions. Here is a link that discusses why you shouldn’t try to show your child they have been alienated:
https://www.amyjlbaker.com/blog/alienated-child.html
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Thank you very much! My actions will show who I am. Timely answer!
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Hi all. I am currently and have been in a 1 year battle. I reside in South Africa and my journey thus far has been nothing more than a nightmare. The justice system has and continues to fail me, court orders are ignored by my ex and I haven’t seen my daughter now in over two months. I am so glad that someone has finally heard the plights of so many alienated parents, I have contemplated suicide, I am currently on antidepressants including sleeping medication, I dont eat, sleep, laugh or smile, my career is in jeopardy, I am on the verge of bankruptcy due to the endless lawyers fees. Alll I do every single day is miss and long for my baby daughter and although I have read so many worse stories than mine I suppose each individual deals with the torment of losing his or her child differently. I am pleased to see that the WHO is going to recognise this as a reason which causes serious mental health conditions, I pray and hope that one day this abuse will one day stop. God bless and best of luck to all. A father.
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Parental alienation has much in common with cultic processes. See this study for instance: https://www.icsahome.com/articles/the-cult-of-parenthood-a-qualitative-study-of-parental-alienation
At the 2008 IFSA conference I heard a distressing account by a woman whose mother had alienated her from her father, from which it had taken her a long time to recover.
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That should have been ICSA — International Cultic Studies Association.
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This is good news… it’s also funny to see that the objections came from the very same groups who have for decades strived to break down the family unit. . I think the term caregiver child relationship problem is a wee bit soft ..and once again misleading to it’s origins and severity. This is a cross generational transference of childhood trauma from one narcissistic personality disorder to it’s child/children . They ate teaching their young to be the predator they themselves are. Narcissistic personality disorders see there children as extensions of themselves and will only accept them if they are so, exactly like them, parental alienation is a process in this. They are teaching the children to be like them , a predator.. and the first target is their own parent, if a child will do it to their own loving parent, it will do it to anyone and in doing that they instill the lying, manipulation, lack of empathy, sense of entitlement, at the same time all the guilt and self hate that is needed to make narcissistic personality disorders.. and let’s not forget all the narcissistic abuse the child will also receive to keep it under control… and I do believe they know they are doing it, narcissistic personalities are very calculating, they plan what they do to get them what they want. I have experienced them most of my life.. I hope now that this means that finally there will be something done about these narcissistic personalities.. and when I say that I also mean sociopaths 6% , psychopaths 6% and peadophiles 3% and not just the narcissists 12%.. ALL are narcissistic personalities.. and there are others but these are the worst and cannot be helped.. borderline and bipolar, they can be helped, but those 4 cannot. And these are who we are dealing with in the 15% to 20% of divorces/separations that end up with a parent being alienated, and these are what needs to be stopped.. when the system is in place to recognise these personality disorders, which at the moment it most certainly is not, children and parents are being diagnosed with the wrong diagnoses on a daily basis at the moment. So called mental health professionals who don’t seem to recognise C PTSD .. and diagnose autism or ADHD in children instead.. 5 year olds being labelled “problem kids” !! Ye know!?!?! 5 year old kids are not “problem kids”.. that is “problem” parenting and when a city like Amsterdam had to open a whole school ( primary school) to school the rise of what they are calling “problem kids” , then they is something else wrong and not just the kids… parenting “styles” have changed dramatically in the last 40 years and not for the better.. and I am sorry to say , it does have a link to those very feminist groups you mentioned above .. follow the timeline in every aspect of this… the rise in suicides in men and kids, the rise in homeless children, drug and alcohol abuse in early age, the rise in narcissistic personality disorders, ( and the others people get wrongly labelled with), and the rise of the 3rd wave “feminism” , which really is doing no good for women as a whole in the slightest…. and there are hundreds more examples where this is affecting society, our species, in a really negative way .. welcome to the world of narcissistic abuse, fatherless children and parental alienation… and that is not to say that men are not alienators, because they are too.. the numbers are 4 out of 5 cases are men being alienated but there would be more if the courts were equal too.. sad fact is that they are unwittingly helping female alienators through there own gender bias.. shame they don’t stop the female ones the same way they stop the Male ones.. but that us only because they are bias and the man loses in family courts 90% of the time anyway.. not because the court actually does their work correctly.. I think there should be more done about the abuse done to achieve the rejection in the first place.. kids are bullied, manipulated and fed a delusion for years before they finally reject the other parent.. by then the damage is done.. we know it is done through narcissistic abuse tactics .. which are no picnic for adults to withstand never mind a child.. so that is where we need to intervene and place the child with the authentic loving parent.. and not when the years of abuse have gotten their results that were wanted.. stop the abuse , not the symptoms of it…
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Scott,
I have read this passage a dozen times. I have had the same thoughts, but never spelled out so starkly:
“They are teaching the children to be like them , a predator.. and the first target is their own parent, if a child will do it to their own loving parent, it will do it to anyone and in doing that they instill the lying, manipulation, lack of empathy, sense of entitlement, at the same time all the guilt and self hate that is needed to make narcissistic personality disorders.. “
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Fantastica menzogna che solo le mezze tacche del Concistoro Pasista Italiota — vassallo e servo del Padrone e Signore della PAS USA-Internazionale (di cui la PAS Italiota è una succursale fedelissima) può inventare.
Usare la fantastica menzogna di una nullità — pure vassalla serva del Bernet — che è la british Karen Woodall PASista: Woodall Karen: Pasista Europea Bernetiana che costruisce una menzogna dal nulla.
Il TEAM 3 dell’ICD-11, con cui sono in contatto, riceverà entro settimana il dossier in preparazione che dettaglia le menzogne e manipolazioni del William Bernet all’ICD-11 (e al DSM_5 .. dal 2008 al 2013).
Il Dossier includerà ‘shots’ di tutti questi post(s) che i Monaci del Concistoro Pasista Italiota stanno diffondendo — con tanto di nomi e cognomi, pagine FB ed e-mail e altro che si trova sul web.
Il Dossier chiederà pure per una investigazione prima interna tra il Bernet e membri del’ICD-11 dal 2013 a oggi; poi prospetterà scenari di azioni legali negli USA e in Europa per le manipolazioni del Bernet e della sua Banda pasista del PASG.
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For readers of this blog who are alienated parents and for practitioners and legal personnel in this field and for anyone interested in health of children and families affected by parental alienation, here is a translation of the comment from someone called Sarnen – THIS is what we are up against – efforts to discredit at every turn. Who would want to prevent knowledge and work with alienated and abused children of divorce and separation?
Fantastic lie that only the half-notches of the Italian Pasist consistory – vassal and servant of the Master and Lord of the USA-International PAS (of which the PAS Italiota is a very faithful branch) can invent.
Use the fantastic lie of a nullity – even vassal of the Bernet servant – which is the British Karen Woodall PASista: Woodall Karen: Pasista Europea Bernetiana who builds a lie from nothing.
The TEAM 3 of the ICD-11, with which I am in contact, will receive the dossier in preparation that details the lies and manipulations of William Bernet at the ICD-11 (and at DSM_5 .. from 2008 to 2013).
The Dossier will include ‘shots’ of all these post (s) that the Monks of the Itistota Pasista Consistory are spreading – with lots of names and surnames, FB pages and e-mails and more that is on the web.
The Dossier will also ask for a first internal investigation between the Bernet and members of the ICD-11 from 2013 to today; then he will outline scenarios of legal action in the US and Europe for the manipulations of the Bernet and his Pasas PASG Band.
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Woodall —
next time use a better translator, preferably humanoid. Or learn some Italian. Anyway, may statements are factual — all with bibliographical references in support, unlike yours. Perhaps you should visit the ICD-11 site and read what Sarnen has to say about your Master Bernet and his ‘faithful followers’ (as Richard Gardner used to call his Pasist followers). I hope you realize that all the discussions here and elsewhere have been archived and will be submitted in the Dossier to the ICD-11 as well as to the DSM-5.
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Dear Sarnen, your behaviour here and elsewhere is disturbing. I have published this to allow others to understand the way in which you and others act in this environment. Your threats, your rhetoric and your treatment of other people in public spaces, is little short of alarming. I care nothing for what you have to say about Professor Bernet, your references to Gardner mean nothing given that the work that is done to uncover the reality of parental alienation has moved the field on apace in thirty years. Now I will not publish anything other comments you make on this blog, I publish this only to allow the public to see the kind of people who are attempting to prevent the reality of harm done to children of divorce and separation being known about. As for the threats to submit conversations here to anyone, feel free, there is nothing here other than humanity, something sadly lacking in your behaviours.
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What is wrong with researching and sharing with people, helping them to understand what’s going on in their lives? The so-called “Youth Protection” organizations are good for absolutely nothing, except tearing families apart. So-called “Family Psychologists” are good for absolutely nothing, can NOT explain – and only here, on this blog, I finally begin to understand why my beloved son with whom we were so close, has rejected me. I finally see all my mistakes, and finally see the light at the end of tunnel called “Hope”.
What is your problem whoever you are, Sarnen?
At last some people have given this syndrome a name. What? They aren’t doing it professionally? Then do it in professional manner!
Publish a link to your page(s) with all your expertise, I will be glad to read it. I searched on Google and found nothing. Who is “Sarnen”? And don’t worry about Italian, I have plenty of Italian friends who will read it with me.
Karen will allow your comment with professional answer, with professional link. Right, Karen?
By the way, thanks Karen for all this hard work. I am finally on the right track on reuniting with my child. (tears in my eyes…)
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“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”
– Theodore Parker, 1853
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Hmm paedophilia is also included in the same ICD ….
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thank you for your somewhat pointless comment Lisa, we understand your agenda and it won’t be promulgated on this blog.
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This needs to be part of the public discourse. I’m a target parent, a Canadian with Norwegian children. My teenage daughter had to be sedated and taken to a place to me watched so she wouldn’t hurt herself and no one contacted me. The mother then forbid my oldest daughter from giving me any details. My oldest daughter asked her mother what if papa died before this was resolved to be told “people like him dont change”. I have cancer.
I’m way beyond anger to the point I have grown from the issue. The mother who is working on a PHD in social work specializing in troubled children is a smart woman and a very good person but not to me. Her mind is defiled as she projects on to me issues from her own broken family caused by a unfaithful distant father.
Target parents can develop issues with substance abuse, depression, PTSD, suicide and contribute to domestic violence. This does not take into consideration the heart of the problem, the damage to our children.
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Hello again Karen,
Have you received (via PASG – I know you’ve moved on) the latest email from Professor William Bernet regarding what has recently happened recently ie the terms parental alienation and parental estrangement being removed from ICD-11? Will you be responding?
Kind Regards, Willow
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I don’t get PASG newsletters anymore as I am no longer involved but I do know what has happened at the WHO Willow. I am uncertain how I feel about it right now which is why I have not written anything. I am going through something of a really powerful shift in my thinking about the problem of alienation in children which is based on treating these families using a therapeutic intervention. I will think about what it means. K
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Thanks for your reply. Sounds interesting re your ‘thinking’ ………..
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