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.
At the Point of a Knife
Kenneth Fox | English, 2019
At the Point of a Knife is a real life thriller about a doctor who invents life-saving laser technology, his wife’s destructive inheritance, and the legal conspiracy to steal his successful hi-tech start-up. Dr. Kenneth Fox fights off predatory companies as he battles globally for his company’s rights. But, at first, he ignores the threats to his family. By day, he has a successful career. By night, he lives with an increasingly mentally ill spouse. Although she is physically abusive with him and their son, Fox is emotionally co-dependent. At the same time, he is helping his dying mother and his chronically ill father. While all of this is ongoing, the family’s two young children are being severely parentally alienated against him by his wife.
The Divorce Recovery Ladder: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Successfully Climb Out of Your Divorce
Susan Shofer | English, 2019
From thorny legal issues to your emotional, mental, and financial well-being, The Divorce Recovery Ladder is the only divorce guide that answers in a straightforward and pragmatic manner your most burning questions about all aspects of divorce. Along with Susan’s personal divorce, her experience in the financial industry and a 25-year career as a private investigator bring you sensible ways to navigate the divorce recovery journey. Divorce does not have to be financially devastating nor does it have to leave families fractured and shattered. Susan’s wisdom and humor — forces that enabled her to climb out of her own longstanding contentious divorce — shine throughout each chapter of this must-read book for every divorcee out there. The Divorce Recovery Ladder is interactive and includes downloadable .pdf’s that will help you stay organized and on-track, understanding and taking control of your divorce process.
Ex’s & Oh’s: Dealing With Parental Alienation and Healing Through the Pain
J. K. Nation | English, 2019
Going through a divorce with children is like learning to dance in a mine field and expecting not to get hurt. Ex’s & Oh’s takes you through the journey of parental alienation, giving you the tools needed to find joy, healing, and restoration in the darkest times. Parental alienation can be the darkest element in a divorce proceeding that often cuts off parents and extended family members from their children or grandchildren. The process leads to depression, financial despair, and in some cases even suicide. The goal for Ex’s & Oh’s is to bring life, freedom, and restoration to individuals and families impacted by parental alienation.
Protection de l’enfance: Lettre ouverte à tous ses acteurs
Isabelle Vuistiner-Zuber | French, 2019
Divorce is a delicate exercise of transition to a different living environment, especially when children are present. Without being careful, we can start to slide toward something unmanageable and a source of intense suffering. This book advises: be attentive to one’s own reactions following the break-up; give the children more attention; and know the structures and procedures that can provide support. This book is intended first as a guide for parents. The eight testimonies collected here express with force how much these tense situations can affect us. It is necessary to obtain absolute respect for the right of children to be raised by both parents.
Protecting Yourself from Emotional Predators
Steven J. Wolhandler | English, 2019
The author knows how abusive and manipulative people prey on the emotions of good people, and how good people can protect themselves. For emotional predators, life is a strategy game to dominate and control, and you are either a player to be defeated or a game piece to be used. The book provides five essential steps for protecting yourself, valuable guidance for safe relationships, and over thirty specific defensive tactics for coping with emotional predators.
Parentectomy
Christine Giancarlo | English, 2018
When parents separate and divorce, kids come last in family law. Should children’s welfare be measured in “billable hours”? Christine Giancarlo thinks kids come first and need both parents. Parentectomy moves us toward that goal … for the sake of the children. Based on Dr. Giancarlo’s peer-reviewed research study, Kids Come Last: The Effect of Family Law Involvement in Parental Alienation, this book tells, in their own voices, the stories of thirty loving, capable, and dependable parents who were removed from their children’s lives. It is also the author’s own journey through the devastation caused by parental alienation. This book sheds light on an urgent social crisis, enabled by a broken family law system. An equitable and just model for eliminating this form of child abuse is proposed with an urgent plea for its implementation.
Громче, чем тишина
Vesta Spivakovsky | Russian, 2018
This is the first book published in the Russian language regarding parental alienation. The task of this book is to bring the problem of family kidnapping and parental alienation into the field of public discussion. The occurrence of family kidnapping in Russia has exposed a failure in the relevant legislation, but has become a full-on disaster, invisible to most citizens of the country and the world. The author has made her personal tragedy public in order to force the government to pay attention to the lack of existing egal mechanisms for resolving family conflicts.
Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships
Homer B. Martin, Christine B. L. Adams | English, 2018
Two veteran psychiatrists unravel the mystery of how thought and emotional patterns are passed from parents to children, generation after generation, “conditioning” each of us in ways that endure throughout our lives and affect all of our relationships. Living on Automatic explores a groundbreaking concept developed by two psychiatrists with 80 years of combined experience in dynamic psychotherapy with almost 2,000 patients. The book offers strategies to help readers liberate themselves from limiting ways of relating to others, avoid automatic emotional responses, live life with intention, and create happier relationships. The authors bring to life the principles presented through vignettes from dynamic psychotherapy treatment. The book is inclusive of the LGBT experience. This book provides discoveries about the development of parents’ personalities that lead to parental alienation. Personalities of both the alienator and targeted parents are described. Living on Automatic reveals how relationship conflict arises because of the two distinct personalities that are common in marriages.
Parental Alienation Survival Coach
Monica Giglio | English, 2017
Parental alienation is a form of bullying, domestic violence, and psychological abuse that severs normal parent/child bonds. The catastrophic results in children tormented this way can include teen pregnancy, depression, gang involvement, susceptibility to predators, eating disorders, and youth suicide. Immense feelings of helplessness overcome parents whose children have been enlisted in coalitions against them. After devoting their lives to trying to revert this tragedy, some parents who feel their lives have lost their meaning become withdrawn, passive and suicidal. Parental Alienation Survival Coach captures the feelings of shock, confusion and helplessness that parents experience as they are pushed out of their children’s lives, and their desperate struggle for education to understand what’s happening. Follow along on every alienated parent’s journey from crushing heartbreak, to wellness, despite significant open wounds. Chapters alternate from sad, to funny, to inspirational, to hopeful and include healing, humor, heart, prayers, verses, self-care and an exclusive 6-step program!
Half the Child
William McGee | English, 2018
Half the Child takes place over four consecutive summers in the lives of Michael Mullen and his son Benjamin, who ages from 2½ to 5½. The novel chronicles the separation, divorce, custody battle, and abduction that threaten to tear apart father and son. Mike is a 34-year-old air traffic controller at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport who is also pursuing a graduate degree in Psychology. He and Ben’s mother were married for less than five years when she suddenly decided to seek a divorce. Throughout these four summers the legal stakes keep dramatically increasing, as mediation devolves into litigation, and her romantic and career aspirations spur her to first take Ben to Indiana, and then to abduct him and resettle outside the U.S. For Mike, the cost of asserting his rights as a father and Ben’s rights as a son continues to escalate. Over the course of the four summers, the battle for Ben negatively affects Mike’s career, education, financial state, friendships, romantic life, physical health, and emotional well-being. Ultimately, refusing to relinquish his parental rights leads Mike to personal bankruptcy, temporary homelessness, potentially catastrophic errors at work, and suicidal depression. Yet Mike steadfastly refuses to consider a life that consists of him living apart from Ben. With courts continually ruling against Ben’s father, it remains uncertain if their bond will survive. Ultimately, they will write their own love story.
From the Mob to the Therapist’s Chair
Monty Weinstein, Vickie Taylor | English, 2018
Dr. Monty Weinstein grew up in a wealthy family that made its millions off the grid and most definitely illegally. He was the birth son of a notorious mobster, and hustled his way through his teen-age years packing a pistol that was supplied by his very own father. He was encouraged to show it off while he made the rounds collecting the “rent” that small business owners reluctantly turned over to him as part of his summer job. He felt powerful, cocky, intimidating and proud, at least for a few weeks. Then he began to feel weary, hopeless and ashamed. He didn’t like the guilt that was settling into his soul. When the guilt started keeping him awake at night, he started to ponder what else might be out there for him. Young Monty was somehow able to bumble his way through high school, and once settled into college, found his spark of new beginnings in a philosophy class. He became focused and devoted to strengthening the family unit. Once Dr. Monty broke free from his past, he was able to create a successful, rewarding career as a marriage and family therapist. It was during his experiences as a marriage and family therapist where he began to realize that some parents going through divorce were being severely alienated by their ex-spouses, and children were being brainwashed and literally turned against the other parent. Parental alienation syndrome is a phenomenon that is calculated and widespread across all races and socioeconomic boundaries. Children are systematically and methodically turned against the other parent. It is an epidemic that is slowly being recognized nationwide. Dr. Monty has made it his business to uncover the truth and create more awareness that this phenomenon is occurring worldwide.
Woody, Healer of Hearts and Souls
Monica Giglio | English, 2018
Come inside the mind, thoughts, and feelings of a dog with a wise old soul, very focused on helping and healing the humans in my life. Follow me through several homes where you will meet families and friends I have lived with, loved, prayed for, taught and learned from. Laugh, cry and love with me on my journey from Georgia to the Northeast to find Madolyn and help heal her breaking heart. Through my relationship and travels with her, I also touch the hearts and souls of her friends, while my own heart literally breaks and bleeds. But I’m comforted with the assurance I’m where I’m supposed to be, doing what I’m supposed to do, and that with my Madolyn, love always flows freely in both directions. Some say dogs come back as humans in their next life, and some people say all dogs go to Heaven, and both are partially correct. We sometimes go to Heaven, and we sometimes come back, but not as humans! We begin life with a love of humans already in us and and because love should always be a two way street, our baby canine noses can always smell whether people have the scent of the love of dogs on them or not.
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.