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.
You’re Not Crazy: Overcoming Parent/Child Alienation
Lynn Steinberg | English, 2021
This book was written for the alienated parent, whether in the beginning or advanced stages. So many reactions, such as: “You must have done something to your son/daughter to have caused them to not talk to you” “When people get divorced, the blame is 50/50; so what did YOU do?” In therapy: “You have to listen to your son/daughter without getting defensive or telling them what they are saying is not true. It is their reality!” “Your child is old enough to choose not to live with you”, at times said when the child is 11, 12, 13, 14 and up years of age! Children cannot drive, drink, vote and do many other things until they reach a certain age. Why is a brainwashed child legally supported in rejecting a once beloved parent? “Your son/daughter is an adult. They couldn’t still be under the influence of the other parent and his/her family” The answer to all the above is “ALL OF THE ABOVE STATEMENTS ARE FALSE, FALSE, FALSE!” Parental alienation is child abuse. It is time for the courts, attorneys, guardians ad litem, child protection personnel, psychologists, psychotherapists, physicians, families and friends to recognize it for what it is and put a stop to it.
Litigating Parental Alienation: Evaluating and Presenting an Effective Case in Court
Ashish Joshi | English, 2021
There is no doubt that parental alienation exists and that U.S. courts have acknowledged the concept, although the theory can sometimes be misused. This practitioner’s manual provides an overview of the concept of parental alienation and explains how to correctly handle it in court. “Hands-on” practice pointers and sample materials on litigating parental alienation make this an essential resource for the family lawyer. This book focuses on one of the most important issues that our legal system confronts: the rights of children. More broadly, this book informs and guides trial lawyers whose cases involve emotion-laden issues, and the need for science-based evidence. Litigating Parental Alienation provides an in-depth examination of evaluating a case of parental alienation and practical guidance for handling a case in court. As these cases involve not just family law practitioners, this book offers science, case law, and practice pointers for guardians ad litem, family court judges, referees, minors’ counsel, and custody evaluators.
From Heartbreak to Healing: Resolving Parental Alienation
Cara E. Koch | English, 2020
Do you know that children are being damaged for life by being turned against one of their parents in the frequently unrecognized brainwashing process called parental alienation? Did you know that it is a form of emotional child abuse? When alienation happens, three core messages are generated: (1) The other parent abandoned and does not love the child. (2) The other parent is dangerous and cannot be counted on. (3) The child is totally dependent on the alienating parent. Therefore, a child’s emotional separation from the alienated parent is seeded and fueled by untruths from the other parent. From Heartbreak to Healing reveals the consequences of and shares a guide map of what to do if this is happening to you.
Parental Alienation — Science and Law
Demosthenes Lorandos, William Bernet | English, 2020
Parental Alienation – Science and Law explains the research that creates the foundation for the assessment, identification, and intervention in cases of parental alienation (PA). For attorneys, judges, and family law professionals, this book explains in detail the scientific basis for testimony and legal decisions that relate to PA. There are two complementary features for most of the chapters. First, the chapter authors address how evidence regarding PA meets Frye, Daubert, and Mohan criteria. The second feature is to refute common misinformation. The editors of this book are concerned that some of the discourse regarding PA has spun out of control, into pervasive misinformation. This book provides abundant information for correcting and counteracting misinformation.
Praktijkboek antisociaal gedrag en persoonlijkheidsproblematiek
Madeleine Rijckmans, Arno van Dam, Wies van den Bosch | Dutch, 2020
Mental health care providers are increasingly confronted with people with antisocial problems. This practice book provides tools for the treatment of people with antisocial behavior arising from personality problems. The tools are based on scientific knowledge and best practices. The book is intended for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and (social psychiatric) nurses working within mainstream and forensic mental health care. Practical Book on Antisocial Behavior and Personality Problems shows, on the basis of many examples, how the practitioner can deal with specific treatment situations and requests for help such as aggression, substance use, and suicidality. The book describes methods to help clients and their social environment change or deal with antisocial behavior better. Attention is also paid to the emotions these clients evoke in practitioners and to the question of how practitioners can deal with this effectively.
Restoring Family Connections
Amy J. L. Baker, Paul R. Fine, Alianna Lacheen-Baker | English, 2020
Broken relationships between adult children and their parents is a widespread phenomenon. While the parent-child relationship is of critical importance for the child in the early years of life, their relationship continues to be a source of great importance for both the adult child and the parent. For adults and adult children who are estranged/alienated from each other, the pain and dissatisfaction never fully go away. This book provides a tool for clinicians to turn to when they are working with adult children and their parents seeking to resolve conflict, improve communication, and enhance their relationships.
The Cult of Trump
Steven Hassan | English, 2019
In The Cult of Trump, mind-control and licensed mental health expert Steven Hassan draws parallels between our current president and people like Jim Jones, David Koresh, Ron Hubbard and Sun Myung Moon, arguing that this presidency is in many ways like a destructive cult. He specifically details the ways in which people are influenced through an array of social psychology methods and how they become fiercely loyal and obedient. Hassan was a former “Moonie” himself, and he draws on his forty years of personal and professional experience studying hypnosis and destructive cults, working as a deprogrammer, and a strategic communications interventionist. He emphasizes why it’s crucial that we recognize ways to identify and protect ourselves and our loved ones. The Cult of Trump is an accessible and in-depth analysis of the president, showing that under the right circumstances, even sane, rational, well-adjusted people can be persuaded to believe the most outrageous ideas.
Understanding and Managing Parental Alienation: A Guide to Assessment and Intervention
Janet Haines, Mandy Matthewson, Marcus Turnbull | English, 2018
In Understanding and Managing Parental Alienation, Janet Haines, Mandy Matthewson, and Marcus Turnbull offer a comprehensive analysis of contemporary understanding of parental alienation. Grounded in recent scientific advances, this is the first book of its kind providing resources on how to identify parental alienation and a guide to evidence-based interventions. Recognizing parental alienation and knowing when to intervene is often the biggest challenge faced by practitioners; this book provides a guide to this process. Divided into six parts, this book examines what parental alienation is and how it is caused, how it affects each family member as a mental health concern and form of violence, and how to assess, identify, and intervene successfully from a legal and therapy standpoint. Taking on a gender-neutral approach, the book is filled with contemporary case examples from male and female perspectives, cutting-edge research, practitioner-client dialogues, and practitioners’ reflections to show the difficult realities of parental alienation.
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.