Category Archives: The Big Picture
A morte inventada – The invented death
To celebrate Parental Alienation Awareness Day today, here is a brilliant concise way to say it all in 3 mins! An English-subtitled Brazilian video: A Morte Inventada. It reminds us that Alienation is world-wide. The sincerity of the people, the gender neutrality and the clear
A morte inventada – The invented death
To celebrate Parental Alienation Awareness Day today, here is a brilliant concise way to say it all in 3 mins! An English-subtitled Brazilian video: A Morte Inventada. It reminds us that Alienation is world-wide. The sincerity of the people, the gender neutrality and the clear
A quart into a pint-pot: how to spread the word
It’s Parental Alienation Awareness Day everyone. So let’s spread the word. I’ve written about that before: PR for PA. We want to reach the unconverted as well as preach to the converted. This post is the long of it. The next one’s the short of
A quart into a pint-pot: how to spread the word
It’s Parental Alienation Awareness Day everyone. So let’s spread the word. I’ve written about that before: PR for PA. We want to reach the unconverted as well as preach to the converted. This post is the long of it. The next one’s the short of
A striking case of alienation by a non-resident parent
Read the interesting personal case story in the Guardian – an unusual Parental Alienation pattern and a good opportunity for us to raise PA awareness. The case is unusual in that the non-resident father seems to have done quite a few dastardly things to
A striking case of alienation by a non-resident parent
Read the interesting personal case story in the Guardian – an unusual Parental Alienation pattern and a good opportunity for us to raise PA awareness. The case is unusual in that the non-resident father seems to have done quite a few dastardly things to
Other alienated groups: 1. homeless
Parental Alienation is the most serious hard-end of the alienation spectrum. We reckon it helps to explore that spectrum to engage more people and clarify different meanings. Soft-end alienation featured at a recent conference on families, homelessness and conflict resolution. Soft-end alienation
Other alienated groups: 1. homeless
Parental Alienation is the most serious hard-end of the alienation spectrum. We reckon it helps to explore that spectrum to engage more people and clarify different meanings. Soft-end alienation featured at a recent conference on families, homelessness and conflict resolution. Soft-end alienation
How anyone can tell truth to power
Sometimes complex issues in big messy systems crystallise best into simple effective messages. The trick is to care and to have someone you want to get the message through to. American family therapist, Linda Gottlieb provides generic letters that any professional can send to
How anyone can tell truth to power
Sometimes complex issues in big messy systems crystallise best into simple effective messages. The trick is to care and to have someone you want to get the message through to. American family therapist, Linda Gottlieb provides generic letters that any professional can send to
The two truths of torn up letters
Eef van Creij is a friend and colleague, a family mediator in Tilburg, Holland. She has a great name for her teamed-up service: Samen Scheiden or Together Apart. Discussing mediation and alienation she mentioned a well-known journalist (in Holland), Frenk van der Linden. He
The two truths of torn up letters
Eef van Creij is a friend and colleague, a family mediator in Tilburg, Holland. She has a great name for her teamed-up service: Samen Scheiden or Together Apart. Discussing mediation and alienation she mentioned a well-known journalist (in Holland), Frenk van der Linden. He
Working on what Scotland needs
Since the London Conference some of us have teamed up with others to change things in Scotland: 1. to raise awareness of Alienation (PA), and 2. to campaign for competent assessments of families and children in courts. You can help us wherever in the world you
Working on what Scotland needs
Since the London Conference some of us have teamed up with others to change things in Scotland: 1. to raise awareness of Alienation (PA), and 2. to campaign for competent assessments of families and children in courts. You can help us wherever in the world you
PR for PA
Everyone must know that Parental Alienation has a Public Relations challenge. The world gets hot under the collar. We divide into two polarised camps, each equally certain of our opposing views. I think reaching the unconverted is even more important than
PR for PA
Everyone must know that Parental Alienation has a Public Relations challenge. The world gets hot under the collar. We divide into two polarised camps, each equally certain of our opposing views. I think reaching the unconverted is even more important than
A wider welcome to ‘the alienation experience’
Stop press! … ‘the alienation experience’ blog is opening up for wider discussion. Make sure you visit and sign up for fresh posts on all aspects of the alienation experience. Use the guidelines in ‘About’ and below to submit your own thinking for
A wider welcome to ‘the alienation experience’
Stop press! … ‘the alienation experience’ blog is opening up for wider discussion. Make sure you visit and sign up for fresh posts on all aspects of the alienation experience. Use the guidelines in ‘About’ and below to submit your own thinking for
Nick Child’s Overview: Riding the Wild Waters
Nick opened the conference with an overview of the international field of Parental Alienation, a “life-jacket” for “riding the wild waters of family separation”. Reviewing the conference PowerPoint below is a bit of a fiddly experience. So Nick has made that into
Nick Child’s Overview: Riding the Wild Waters
Nick opened the conference with an overview of the international field of Parental Alienation, a “life-jacket” for “riding the wild waters of family separation”. Reviewing the conference PowerPoint below is a bit of a fiddly experience. So Nick has made that into
Kevin Amey: On Being a Guardian
Kevin presented his experience as a Guardian, noting the stark contrast between children who have been actually abused by a parent who still have an attachment to them and want some kind of contact to be enabled, and those alienated
Kevin Amey: On Being a Guardian
Kevin presented his experience as a Guardian, noting the stark contrast between children who have been actually abused by a parent who still have an attachment to them and want some kind of contact to be enabled, and those alienated
Chip Chimera: Working with Parental Alienation
For those who heard her wonderful plenary and workshop in London a year earlier (Sept 2013), Chip had far too short a time at this conference to describe her work with alienated families, and her developed use of Attachment-based understanding for all parties in
Chip Chimera: Working with Parental Alienation
For those who heard her wonderful plenary and workshop in London a year earlier (Sept 2013), Chip had far too short a time at this conference to describe her work with alienated families, and her developed use of Attachment-based understanding for all parties in
the alienation experience 