The quick and the slow
The usual view of how Alienation starts and stops is that it is a long-drawn out process … years to create and years to repair. But read Richard Warshak and others, and the clear picture is that PA can start and stop
The quick and the slow
The usual view of how Alienation starts and stops is that it is a long-drawn out process … years to create and years to repair. But read Richard Warshak and others, and the clear picture is that PA can start and stop
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
Considering abuse of the targeted parent
My work with “Rob” continues (see A 1000 tiny poisonous needles with Warshak et al comments). It remains a painful challenge of sustained alienation during contact with his children. On his website Joseph Goldberg talks about the essential place of a parental alienation consultant and the right assembly of
Considering abuse of the targeted parent
My work with “Rob” continues (see A 1000 tiny poisonous needles with Warshak et al comments). It remains a painful challenge of sustained alienation during contact with his children. On his website Joseph Goldberg talks about the essential place of a parental alienation consultant and the right assembly of
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
Myrna Gower: A Thousand Tiny Poisonous Needles
Myrna’s presentation was mainly to share a client’s voice through his emails to her about his enduring experience of contact with his children while they remained actively alienated in all their interactions with him. Myrna described her work, drawing on Linda
Myrna Gower: A Thousand Tiny Poisonous Needles
Myrna’s presentation was mainly to share a client’s voice through his emails to her about his enduring experience of contact with his children while they remained actively alienated in all their interactions with him. Myrna described her work, drawing on Linda
The London Conference: 25th Oct 2014
This is the conference that spawned ‘the alienation experience’ blog. Organised by AFT’s London branch, SSoPA members and guests presented in a packed morning, leaving the afternoon free for discussion. Now everyone can re-view and discuss 24/7! Here’s the blurb: “Navigating
The London Conference: 25th Oct 2014
This is the conference that spawned ‘the alienation experience’ blog. Organised by AFT’s London branch, SSoPA members and guests presented in a packed morning, leaving the afternoon free for discussion. Now everyone can re-view and discuss 24/7! Here’s the blurb: “Navigating
Hamish Cameron, Plenary Discussion and More
Hamish sketched his own long career that was more psychoanalytical than systemic. But child psychiatrists and their multidisciplinary colleagues cannot help but work with families in both clinical and legal practice. He noted that some therapy is talking therapy, and
Hamish Cameron, Plenary Discussion and More
Hamish sketched his own long career that was more psychoanalytical than systemic. But child psychiatrists and their multidisciplinary colleagues cannot help but work with families in both clinical and legal practice. He noted that some therapy is talking therapy, and
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