Books by PASG Members
Many PASG members are faculty members of universities in the United States and other countries. They have engaged in extensive clinical work and research regarding parental alienation. As a group, they have published hundreds of scholarly papers, book chapters, and books, some of which are listed here. The inclusion of any book on this website does not confer approval of the book or its author by the PASG Board of Directors.
Preserving Family Ties: An Authoritative Guide to Understanding Divorce and Child Custody, for Parents and Family Professionals
Mark D. Roseman | English, 2018
Preserving Family Ties was not written to provide a formula for action. Rather, this is a guidebook for understanding. It was written to give a clearer understanding of the complexity in child custody when parents separate. This book provides the historical context for the changes that parents may experience, and what they may fear. This book offers parents and professionals the context in which the new reality unfolds. It was written to help parents understand that one can move forward best when they (1) acknowledge their feelings as they endure so many life changes, often abrupt and unexpected; (2) recognize the obstacles and options in the child custody and divorce process; and (3) seek support from family, friends, and community resources to affect the best transition for parents and their children.
Parental Alienation: A Loving Father’s Lost Years
Allan Freeman-Jones | English, 2017
Parental alienation is the scourge of modern day co-parenting. Aided by indifferent and often out-dated family court systems, a legion of children and co-parents are living alienated lives. This is a story of our time. In the space of four years Allan went from bachelor to alienated father. When it looked like Allan may have gained increased access to his son Timothy, Margaret played her trump card: the father was accused of sexually abusing his son. Upon the order of the Family Court, contact between father and son ceased. When re-established, contact was supervised. Investigations by the Department For Child Protection and the police concluded the allegations were unfounded. Allan was saddened his son had now become a stranger to him. For the sake of his son’s mental and emotional wellbeing, seeing it as his only realistic course of action, Allan exited his son’s life. Nearly eight years have passed without any contact between Allan and Timothy. After a few false starts, Margaret’s alienation plan ultimately proved successful.
Ebeveyne Yabancılaşma Sendromu
Fuat Torun | Turkish, 2017
This book is in Turkish. In contentious divorces and custody battles, this book should be read by divorce lawyers, family court judges, social workers, forensic experts, pedagogues, psychologists, psychological counselors, guidance experts, and psychiatrists. A child who is programmed may develop parental alienation. In divorces, there is no winner of custody battles! Good parents think about their children first. They do not use their children for their own needs and interests!
Selfies
Gabriel Gilbert | English, 2017
“Brutally honest,” “guilty indulgence” and “inventive” all describe Gabriel Gilbert’s debut novel, Selfies. The characters narrate this literary adult thriller, each one dangerously blind to the other’s truest nature. Carinda Campbell, a streetwise southern woman, seeks refuge in the wake of her ex-husband’s white collar crimes. Online, she captures the interest of Ray Welles, former Marine and tech entrepreneur, who has just left a soulless marriage and battles traumas old and new. Their explosive chemistry distracts from their children, ex’s, and careers. Between the heat and wealth of Boca Raton and the hard but humble wards of Milwaukee, Gilbert’s mastery of psychology and technology gradually expose his cast’s many secrets, lies, and personal demons. While Carinda and Ray enjoy a brief, tender respite from reality, dark clouds form with the all-too-easy abuse of law. Selfies’ many tensions and complexities finally unleash the perfect storm. Who will survive and at what cost?
Parent Deleted: A Mother’s Fight for Her Right to Parent
Michelle Darné, | English, 2017
An acclaimed spokesperson for equality at the helm of And Baby, a pioneer magazine, radio show, and TV series on alternative parenting, Michelle Darné found herself at once callously erased from the lives of her children and silenced by the law. Parent Deleted is a gripping tale of one non-biological, lesbian mother’s fight for her children. And it is a courageous, disturbing, and necessary exposé of a likely emergent social justice frontier: the rights of all children to be with their parents, whether they are biologically linked, straight, gay, prepared or knocked up, perfect spouses or fallible ones.
Manual del Síndrome de Alienación Parental
Francisco José Fernández Cabanillas | Spanish, 2017
This book explores the hypothesis that children can be manipulated by one of their parents to hate and reject the other parent, and presents a thorough assessment on the Spanish situation at the legal, psychological, and social levels. This is a fundamental text for all magistrates, lawyers, doctors, psychologists, and educators who daily find themselves with these situationse to which a minor can be subjected. The editors and contributors for this book include PASG members José Manuel Aguilar Cuenca, Enric Carbó Sanchís, Arantxa Coca Vila, Asunción Tejedor Huerta, Paul Bensussan, and Michael Bone.
Alienazione Parentale: Innovazioni Cliniche e Giuridiche
Giovanni Battista Camerini, Marco Pingitore, John Lopez | Italian, 2016
Parental alienation is one of the most debated issues in recent years in separation/divorce and child custody. This phenomenon is considered a relational problem that involves the entire triad of father-mother-child, all of whom, with their contribution, allows the establishment of a highly dysfunctional family process with a concrete risk for the involved child. The book highlights the contributions of various authors allowing for scientific and methodological comparison, even with different points of view. The experts offer practical insights on a theme that is still controversial in the courts of Italy. The authors highlight psychosocial solutions to be taken to counter parental alienation, which is now universally recognized, but still very difficult to curb because of the difficulty of implementing interventions.
Don’t Hug Your Mother
JP Byrne, Brendan Byrne | English, 2016
From their loving mother’s warm embrace to the stinging lash of their father’s leather belt, things changed rapidly for Brendan and JP when their parents separated. They were just eight and ten years of age at the time. Any hopes of their mother saving them from their torment were dashed when she was then torn from their lives. Don’t Hug Your Mother takes you on a dramatic journey through Brendan and JP’s difficult childhood as they recount episodes of their dark past in harrowing detail. It is a compelling, heart-breaking and ultimately uplifting true story of how two young boys grew up and learnt to confront evil and follow their hearts.
The Year of Loving
Traci Slatton | English, 2016
This novel involves parental alienation in its story line. Art gallerist Sarah Paige’s world is crumbling. One daughter barely speaks to her and the other is off the rails. Sarah is struggling to keep her gallery afloat in a tough market when she learns that her most beloved friend has cancer. In the midst of her second divorce, two men come into her life: an older man who offers companionship and stability and an exciting younger man whose life is as chaotic as hers. Sarah’s courage, humor, and spirit strengthen her, but how much can she bear, and what sustains her when all else falls away?
Parentalidad y Divorcio: (Des)encuentros en la Familia Latinoamericana
Nelson Zicavo Martínez | Spanish, 2016
This book is the result of joint work of a group of professionals, specialists in studying the family, who have been working tirelessly to try to unravel the progress, conflicts, and limitations of this topic of particular importance. It is within the family in which people develop and which also can limit and violate them, especially the most vulnerable, the children. The main mission of these pages is to address the problem of domestic violence and in particular the mistreatment suffered by those children (not addressed in the current scientific literature) that often get caught up in conflicts that do not belong to them, conflicts of parents who put aside consensus and aspire to win a battle of all will come out losers. Thanks to the active collaboration of tireless experts, this book can be accessed and downloaded for free. The chapter authors are from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, and Paraguay.
For the Love of Eryk: Surviving Divorce, Parental Alienation and Life After
Rod McCall | English, 2016
In For the Love of Eryk, Rod McCall shares his personal experience with parental alienation, which was so severe, it led to the death of his son Eryk. The boy was killed by the hands of his own mother when she lost her parental rights as the courts finally saw through her alienating behaviors. Part One of the Book is Rod’s captivating and important story, showing how parental alienation can happen. Part Two of the book tells the stories of many others, specifically addressing what parental alienation is and how it can be stopped. Through interviewing many other parents, as well as professionals in family law, Rod’s book is a powerful resource which can raise awareness, educate, and be a catalyst for change.
Prescriptions Without Pills: For Relief from Depression, Anger, Anxiety, and More
Susan Heitler | English, 2016
Have you ever wanted relief from feeling discouraged? worried? irritated? locked in habits that ultimately harm you? Prescriptions Without Pills offers techniques for resolving the problems that have been provoking your uncomfortable emotions. This book guides you back to feeling good and then shows you how to sustain feelings of well-being. Avoid the risk of negative side effects like weight gain and mental dullness that can result from taking pills to reduce your negative emotions. Instead, implement these drug-free prescriptions. Use the prescriptions on your own or with help from a therapist. Illustrated with engaging stories from the many clients Dr. Heitler has worked with in her years as a psychologist and psychotherapy innovator, Prescriptions Without Pills aims to help you navigate the route back to well-being and learn skills that can help you to stay there.
Parents Acting Badly: How Institutions and Societies Promote the Alienation of Children from Their Loving Families
Jennifer J. Harman, Zeynep Biringen | English, 2015
In Parents Acting Badly, Drs. Jennifer Jill Harman and Zeynep Biringen provide a thorough analysis of how and why parental alienation can insidiously gain momentum over the years, and how parenting stereotypes, gender inequality, and social institutions (such as family courts) all sanction and even promote the problem. Parents Acting Badly represents a paradigm shift in thinking about parental alienation — from a private issue to a public concern. The authors suggest new approaches to addressing this controversial problem that encompasses individual change, as well as social and institutional reforms. The understanding and prevention of parental alienation can help families, societies, and institutions protect the best interests of the child.
Mindful Child Custody: Thinking Outside the Child Custody Box
Herman Gill | English, 2015
Mindful Child Custody provides a new compass for divorced parents navigating the murky waters of child custody litigation in the face of the increasing erosion of their constitutional rights. Based on over one thousand child custody cases from throughout the United States, this book empowers the reader to take on the corrupted system armed with the latest scientific research and forensic science relating to the crucial bond between child and parent. Making the case that only when solid forensic evidence of parental harm can be presented should a parent’s rights be denied, he eviscerates the court’s use of persons other than parents in making major decisions for their child, forced separations, and thwarted parental upbringing of children as harmful in and of themselves.
Getting Through My Parents’ Divorce
Amy J. L. Baker, Katherine C. Andre | English, 2015
This workbook, specifically designed for children, guides kids amid divorce and parental conflict on how to healthily understand, identify, and deal with the different difficulties that arise when parents divorce or conflict with each other. Some scenarios and topics include what to do when one parent tries to turn the children against the other parent, what to do when one parent seeks another spouse, and how to deal with the emotional hardships during a divorce.
Obstrucción del vínculo de los nietos con sus abuelos
José Maria Bouza | Spanish, 2015
This book — Obstruction of the Bond of Grandchildren with Their Grandparents — explains common questions and doubts regarding these important relationships. The book discusses relevant modifications in the law, comparing the old and new laws and the central changes of the new Commercial Civil Code. It provides a typical schedule for visitation with grandparents.
Combating Cult Mind Control: The Guide to Protection, Rescue and Recovery from Destructive Cults
Steven Hassan | English, 2015
On November 18th, 1978, over 900 people including a U.S. congressman Leo Ryan died because of Cult Leader Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana. Over 300 were children forced to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid by their parents who believed they were doing God’s will. The techniques of undue influence have evolved dramatically, and continue to do so. Today, a vast array of methods exist to deceive, manipulate, and indoctrinate people into closed systems of obedience and dependency. If you are reading this updated book for the first time, please know that you have found a safe, respectful, compassionate place. This book can help you protect or regain your sanity, freedom, and health. It can also help you protect others from the use of mind control techniques. Sadly, the essential information in this book is still not widely known or understood. People around the world remain largely unprepared for the new realities of mind control. But you are far from helpless. There is a great deal you can do to stay safe, sane, and whole — and to help the people you care about to do the same. And if someone you love is already part of a mind control group, there is much you can do to help them break free and rebuild their life. This book will give you the tools you need.
El Síndrome De Alienación Parental: Una Forma De Maltrato
Asunción Tejedor Huerta | Spanish, 2015
Recounting two cases of parental alienation in the Familiar Meeting Point Service of Seville, an organization that facilitates the measures agreed upon by Spanish family courts with divorced families, Tejedor Huerta exposes this syndrome as a form of child abuse with detrimental psychological consequences. Tejedor Huerta also suggests methods of intervention to prevent further psychological strain on the children.
Hijos Perdidos: Alienación Parental Es Abuso Infantil
Gladys Monge | Spanish, 2014
This is an easy-to-understand guide for divorced and separated parents, as well as for mental health professionals, legal professionals, and the general public. This book explains how to understand and recognize parental alienation, which is a form of child abuse that is occurring worldwide. Parental alienation occurs when a parent, motivated by revenge or defiance, manipulates a child to reject or hate the other parent. The intention of the alienating parent is to prevent, hinder, or destroy the child’s links with the other parent. The author of the book, Gladys Monge, reflects on her personal experience when she lost two sons through divorce and her struggle in the courts. Gladys Monge is a survivor of parental alienation.
The High-Conflict Custody Battle: Protect Yourself and Your Kids from a Toxic Divorce, False Accusations, and Parental Alienation
Amy J. L. Baker, Michael Bone, Brian Ludmer | English, 2014
In The High-Conflict Custody Battle, a team of legal and psychology experts present a practical guidebook for people like you who are engaged in a high-conflict custody battle. If you are dealing with an overtly hostile, inflammatory, deceitful, or manipulative ex-spouse, you will learn how to find and work with an attorney and prepare for a custody evaluation. The book also provides helpful tips you can use to defend yourself against false accusations, and gives a realistic portrayal of what to expect during a legal fight.