Diagnosing divorce: Should parental alienation be a mental disorder?
Interesting links in the article to both sides of the debate on PAS.
When a divorced parent disses an ex in front of a child, the kid gets caught in a tug-of-war. But that’s not all. In extreme cases, poisoning a child’s mind against a parent can cause a mental illness, according to an Aurora, Ont.-based group called the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome.
At an upcoming conference in Montreal, the CSPAS is calling for the syndrome’s inclusion in the first complete revision since 1994 of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – a.k.a. the psychiatric bible – due for publication in May, 2013.
At an upcoming conference in Montreal, the CSPAS is calling for the syndrome’s inclusion in the first complete revision since 1994 of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – a.k.a. the psychiatric bible – due for publication in May, 2013.
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