Parental Alienation: From Couch to Courtroom and Beyond

The previous episodes built the theoretical, historical, and methodological foundation. This episode is where the contemporary empirical literature is laid on top of that foundation. Here we reframe the question: does parental alienation exist? The debate is not whether PA exists but whether institutions are willing to use the evidence; the prevalence literature — Harman and colleagues; the survivor literature — Baker; the reformulation literature — Kelly and Johnston; the nosology literature — Bernet and the ICD-11; international legal and legislative recognition; the implication — what all of this means for practitioners and for parents. 
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This episode moves through cognitive psychology, developmental science, and forensic interview methodology. This episode: establishes that basic cognitive science demonstrates that memory is constructive, not reproductive; discusses Elizabeth Loftus’ research as to what happens when that constructive system is subjected to systematic adult suggestion; reviews the Satanic Panic period and the McMartin case that shows what happens when institutional contexts amplify suggestion on a mass scale; and then maps the mechanism directly onto the alienating parent’s operation on the child’s memory system.
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This episode contains a three-part structure 1.  Who Richard Gardner actually was; 2. What he actually wrote; 3. What was done to his reputation and why.
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We will examine the full taxonomy of parental alienation — the behavioral indicators, the severity levels, the alienating behaviors — and we will introduce the intellectual lineage that runs from Sigmund Freud through John Bowlby through Margaret Mahler to Richard Gardner: a lineage that tells us something important about why alienation works, because it exploits precisely the developmental architecture that defines a child’s earliest and most consequential relationships. 
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This episode is the first in a new series. We will discuss a quick review of parental alienation with a brief introduction to the science and research behind it, as well as the beginning of a counter-argument to the deniers and antagonists of the phenomenon.
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