CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CURRENT PAS CONTROVERSY
Rebuttal to Carol S. Bruch’s Article by Richard A. Gardner, M.D.
"Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: Getting it Wrong in Child Custody Cases"
in: Family Law Quarterly 35(3):527-552, 2001A REBUTTAL by Demosthenes Lorandos, Ph.D., J.D. to the article of Carol S. Bruch – Research Professor of Law – University of California, Davis
Parental Alienation Syndrome: Getting it wrong in child custody cases
(This rebuttal is a chapter of an article entitled “The Parental Alienation Syndrome in American Law”, written by Demosthenes Lorandos, Ph.D., J.D)
in: Family Law Quarterly 35 (3): 527 – 552, 2001A REBUTTAL by Demosthenes Lorandos, Ph.D., J.D. to the article of Kathleen Coulborn Faller, Ph.D., Social Scientist – University of Michigan
Title: CHILD MALTREATMENT AND ENDANGERMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DIVORCE
(This rebuttal is a chapter of an article entitled “The Parental Alienation Syndrome in American Law”, written by Demosthenes Lorandos, Ph.D., J.D)
in: 22 University of Arkansas Little Rock Law Review: 429 ff, 2000Rebuttal to J.B. Kelly and J.R. Johnston's Article
by Richard A. Gardner M.D.
Original article : J.B. Kelly und J.R. Johnston (2001), “A REFORMULATION OF PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME”
in: Family Court Review , 39(3):249-266
A scientifically excellent review of the concepts and the controversies relating to PAS can be found in Warshak, R. A., (2006), Social science and parental alienation: Examining the disputes and the evidence; in: Gardner, R. A., Sauber, S. R. & . Lorandos, D. (eds.), International Handbook of Parental Alienation Syndrome. C.C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield, IL., p. 352 – 371(German translation in Warshak, R. A. (2005), Eltern-Kind-Entfremdung und Sozialwissenschaften – Sachlichkeit statt Polemik, Zentralblatt für Jugendrecht (ZfJ) 92 (5), S. 186 – 200.)
This publication is an update of his article: “Bringing Sense to Parental Alienation: A Look at the Disputes and the Evidence” in Family Law Quarterly 2003, 37 (2): 273-301. In this article professor Warshak presents the current status of research on PAS. He discusses in detail the familiar points of criticism and also in his presentation of the PAS concept makes numerous suggestions for further scientific research. In addition to the formulation “Parental Alienation Syndrome” (R. A. Gardner), he also deals with the alternative formulation developed by Kelly and Johnston (2001), “The Alienated Child”. Among the controversies surrounding PAS he states in particular his position regarding the very questionable article by C. S. Bruch, “Parental Alienation Syndrome: Getting it Wrong in Child Custody Cases, Family Law Quarterly 2001, 35 (3): 527 – 552. This article, in the German translation ,,Parental Alienation Syndrome und Parental Alienation: Wie man sich in Sorgerechtsfällen irren kann“ (FamRZ 2002, 49 (19): 304 – 315) is despite the devastating criticism, also by other internationally recognized experts, still used in Germany to down play the problem of induced parent-child alienation.
