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During the last few years we have become appreciative of how widespread is child sex abuse. We have also seen an increase in false allegations of sex abuse by children, especially in the context of child custody litigation. It is important for us to differentiate between these two kinds of allegations. Not to do so is to risk the prosecution of innocents and the exoneration of bona fide sex offenders. This volume provides examiners with criteria for making this important differentiation. Dr. Gardner traces the historical development in Western society of the adversary system and the history of parental preference (mother vs. father) following marital dissolution. Appreciation of these historical sequences puts the reader in a better position to understand the sex-abuse allegation problem with which we are dealing today. He describes in detail the etiology, pathogenesis, manifestations, and psychodynamics of a disorder that he refers to as the parental alienation syndrome - with particular focus on the syndrome's relationship to adversary proceedings and child custody litigation. He delineates the mechanisms by which fabricated allegations of sex abuse emerge from the parental alien

Author

Gardner, Richard A

Publisher

Cresskill, N.J.: Creative Therapeutics

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780933812178

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Medicine