You were trapped. You are being held captive, and you are being abandoned.
Clinical psychology doesn’t want to work with you, your ex- is too dangerous and difficult, clinical psychology has willingly abandoned you and your children to this “special” field of psychology, forensic psychology.
The sentence you will hear from clinical psychology is, “I don’t work with high-conflict divorce.”
Forensic psychology also actively claims you as their own, they own you, and clinical psychology willing abandons you, your families are too difficult, your ex- is too dangerous… “I don’t work with high-conflict divorce.”
I was one of them. Look at my vitae, I wasn’t working with your families, everywhere else, not your families, “I don’t work with high-conflict divorce, you need to see a forensic psychologist.”
We abandon you, even now.
In the outside world, in ADHD, autism, school behavior problems, juvenile justice, you don’t exist, we won’t work with you and your families, you’re too hard, and your ex- is too dangerous, I don’t need it, I don’t work with high-conflict divorce.
The bystander role. The one who should protect, who should see… but doesn’t. Because they don’t want to see. The bystander role in trauma.
When the neighbors down the street disappear, oh well, I’m sure they’ll be okay, wherever they are. The bystander role. I don’t work with high-conflict divorce, you want a forensic psychologist, they’re the “special psychologists” who’ve been assigned to your families.
The forensic psychologists are… deeply problematic.
I’ve read their formal stuff, I see, I know what happened. I fully understand what happened. They separated themselves from clinical psychology in a false and grandiose assertion of their superior “objectivity” – that’s a lie. They were born in a lie, and it led to some bad things.
What followed after was their decent into narcissistic self-indulgence and financial exploitation, and cruelty, an immense absence of empathy leading to incomprehensible and inexcusable cruelty. Their absence of empathy, for you, the parents, is stunning. From the mental health people, an absolutely stunning absence of empathy.
It’s foul. The absence of empathy is the capacity for human cruelty. I’ll bet you feel that cruelty, don’t you. I know. Do you know how I know? Normal human empathy. Your grief and loss, your suffering, is staggering in its immensity, as is their cruelty.
The absence of empathy, the capacity for human cruelty.
The absence of empathy is only associated with two pathologies, narcissistic personality pathology, and psychopathic personality pathology. Autism too, but these people are not autistic.
Absence of empathy, immense cruelty. Grandiosity, they are a “special” field, apart, exempt. Their haughty and arrogant attitude, exploitation, entitlement. Forensic psychology.
An interesting set of characteristics. Seems like I’ve seen that pattern somewhere before.
Clinical psychology, we won’t work with your families, we don’t work with high-conflict divorce. So who does? Who does come over here to work with your families, and why? Why do they come when the rest of us won’t?
They come for the money. That’s the only reason to work with “high-conflict” divorce. They solve nothing, they know that, everyone knows that, that’s why no one wants to work with your families. It’s impossible to solve because of the severity of your ex-‘s pathology, and your ex- is exceedingly dangerous if we cross them – they are too dangerous.
So why would anyone come and work with a pathology that is unsolvable and dangerous? The money.
There are no standards of practice over here. You can simply declare yourself to be a “custody evaluator” or a “reunification therapist” and you’re good to go. Do you need any knowledge or training? No.
I reviewed one vitae for a “custody evaluator” – she was an LCSW, a social worker. No worries on social workers, but they are the least trained of all the mental health people in therapy, their primary training is in social services delivery, and they get just a tad of therapy training. They’re social workers, not psychotherapists.
On her vitae, all the rest of her employment history for ten years and currently was in providing social services to the elderly, making sure they got set up with medical care, food and housing, things like that. And then one entry, “Private Practice: Provide child custody evaluations and parenting coordination with families in high-conflict divorce.”
Everything else in her training and background as a social worker is in providing social services to the elderly, except this. You know what it is, she’s making some extra money on the side off your families. To help make ends meet she’s doing occasional “custody evaluations” and “parenting coordination.” She’s just here for a little extra money.
She’s not here to solve anything. She just meets with you people, reports what everyone says, and then decides whatever she wants and calls it a “custody evaluation.” It’s sealed by the court, that’s it, she pockets her money to supplement her income as a social worker with elderly patients. Easy money. Next.
Financial exploitation. Then you have the full-timers, the big-time financial exploitation – the full-blown custody evaluator, they’ll toss an additional six or eight letters after their name. They’re really special, you can tell.
I’ve worked with several, that was before I knew. I thought they were like normal ethical psychologists, I didn’t appreciate the degree of financial corruption throughout. It’s not just a couple of them… it’s all of them. They know, but they are all doing it, so as long as they are all doing it, it’s okay, right? It’s normal.
Standards 2.04, 2.01. Why has no one diagnosed the persecutory delusion? Why has no one ever brought up Minuchin’s diagram for exactly – exactly – this pathology?
They’re not here to solve anything, they’re here to feed.
For some of them, it’s a emotional feeding on the suffering of the parents, punishing the “bad mommy,” the “abusive man.” These malignant mental health humans self-adopt the delusional role as the “protective therapist” in the false Kabuki theater of the pathogen’s lies.
They collude, they participate, to gratify their own twisted emotional needs. That’s one group.
The other group is simply here to feed financially on the bank accounts of the vulnerable parents. The parents will do anything… pay any price… to restore their healthy and authentic child. That attracts those who come to feed. Easy money.
These mental health people are just piggies at the financial trough of these parents’ bank accounts, $20,000 to $40,000 for a child custody evaluation that is worthless, then there’s the money needed for years of “reunification therapy” (there’s no such thing) that solves nothing – things only get worse.
They don’t care. They’re not here to solve anything. Everyone knows this is impossible to solve. They’re just here for some of that easy money that’s being thrown about. You just have to follow the proper procedures to protect yourself, and it’s golden, easy money. Next.
Who else? No one else. There’s the Gardner people, but they’ve just become a cult of personality around their failed PAS thing and Gardner… let it go… it is a shared persecutory delusion… ICD-10 F24.
That’s it. Forensic psychologists who are feeding off of your suffering while they collude with the child abuse out of a delusional belief that they are the “protective other” for the “abused child” in their own vicarious trauma reenactment.
Or, forensic psychologists who are only here to feed off of the financial bank accounts of vulnerable parents in need of mental health support, they solve nothing but are paid handsomely for their nothing.
And me. I’m not a forensic psychologist, I’m clinical psychology; treatment not custody. I’m not special, I’m just the first. I had to lay out the structure to keep the others safe, the ones who will follow.
Your ex- is dangerous, so are the attorneys, so are the surrounding forensic psychologists.
Forensic psychology threatens the license of clinical psychologists if we work with you, we have to be very careful in what we say. They own you,
If we make any statement about child custody without first doing one of their $20,000 to $40,000 child custody evaluation procedures, we could lose our license. Only they are allowed to have an opinion about child custody… after they conduct one of their $20,000 to $40,000 child custody evaluations.
If we do their “procedure,” though, then we can decide and say whatever we want, there’s no standards for that, we just have to do the “proper procedures,” you know, the ones that cost $20,000 to $40,000 and take a leisurely six to nine-months to complete, with all finances paid in advance, and by court order… you know, those procedures.
Meanwhile, a high-end assessment in clinical psychology for the most complex of multiply overlapping child pathologies costs about $5,000 and takes six to eight weeks to complete.
But forensic psychology can’t seem to bring in their evaluation for less than $20,000 to $40,000 each, and taking six to nine months of continuing untreated pathology as everyone waits for the “custody evaluation” to be completed.
Hmm, I wonder why the cost discrepancy?
I can bring in a clinical psychology assessment for this court-involved attachment pathology to the referral question, “Which parent is the source of pathogenic parenting creating the child’s attachment pathology, and what are the treatment implications?” for around $2,500 and in about six to eight weeks.
And they can’t seem to bring in a child custody evaluation for less that $20,000 to $40,000. And I’ve seen their work product. It’s worthless. Completely worthless.
Just to give you an example of how worthless, Q: Does the child have a shared persecutory delusion with the allied parent directed toward the targeted parent?
They won’t answer that question.
So even at the end of their $20.000 to $40.000 child custody evaluation, we still need another assessment. Holy cow, how worthless is that. We still need an assessment to tell us if there’s a shared persecutory delusion, even after their big, bloated, nine month evaluation.
That is worthless. We still need an assessment. Absolutely pointless. But it sure did make them a pretty penny.
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, PSY 18857
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