You do not need to prove something to someone, you need the mental health professionals to do their job to protect your child – and you – from psychological abuse by a narcissistic-borderline-dark personality parent.
The patient should NEVER have to explain the pathology to the doctor, that should never happen… and yet you do here is the family courts, that shows you exactly how bad things are.
I have a Mental Health Consultation page on my Consulting Website (drcachildress-consulting) for parents to provide to their mental health professional to have a doctor explain the pathology, its assessment and diagnosis, to the other doctors.
On the Attorney’s Resource page I have a Pathology Description Handout – “this”.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him protect your children. Yes we can, that’s their job. We need to hold them accountable to do their job.
They won’t. They’ll flee. They are ignorant and incompetent. That’s why they’re here, they don’t need to know anything or solve anything. If you ask them to know or solve… they’ll flee.
Clinical psychologists don’t work in the family courts, it’s too professionally dangerous – that’s why they created a whole “special” group of psychologists just for you – they’re called “forensic” psychologists and they are the worst imaginable.
Everything is broken everywhere. That’s okay, we’re going to fix it. Movement by one is movement by everyone. We just keep moving and we just don’t stop until… we protect the child – and you – from psychological abuse by a narcissistic-borderline-dark personality ex-spouse and parent.
A child rejecting a parent is an attachment pathology. Use real knowledge, it’s too important. Don’t be lazy. The attachment system is the brain system that governs all aspects of love and bonding throughout the lifespan, including grief and loss. A child rejecting a parent is a problem in love and bonding, a problem in the attachment system.
We need to fix it. This is a treatment issue, NOT a custody issue. This is a pathology of lies – start by fixing this first one. You be clear in your understanding and expectations – Dr. Childress says it’s Child Psychological Abuse (a shared persecutory delusion)… is that right?
Ask them. Give them my Mental Health Consultation page.
You are the protective parent. I know that and you know that. They need to understand that and step-up into their (mandatory) professional duty to protect obligations… or explain to you why they don’t protect you or your child.
Doctors diagnose pathology so we will know what to do to fix it. The treatment for cancer is different than the treatment for diabetes. Is there a shared persecutory delusion – yes or no – if no… why not?
Get them to rate your parenting – rating of the targeted parent – on the Parenting Practices Rating Scale (on the Mental Health Consultation page of my Consulting Website).
Diagnosis guides treatment – in all of healthcare, including all of mental health care… except here. Why is that? Why is it ONLY in the family courts that the doctors refuse – refuse – to identify what the problem is – to diagnose what the pathology is?
We must first diagnose what the pathology is before we know how to treat it. We must first identify what the problem is before we know how to fix it.
Diagnosis = identify
Pathology = problem
Treatment = fix it
You can use those words interchangeably. To make common-sense points use the common-sense terms – we first need to identify what the problem is. To make professional points use the professional terms – we need to first diagnose what the pathology is… is there a shared persecutory delusion, yes or no, and if no… why not?
We are going to hold the doctors accountable for doing their job of protecting your children – and you. It’s called their “duty to protect” obligation – it is activated whenever they encounter any one of three dangerous pathologies, suicide, homicide, or abuse (child, spousal, elder).
The ONLY thing that causes severe attachment pathology in a child is child abuse by one parent or the other.
- Targeted Parent Abusive: Either the targeted parent is abusive, thereby creating the child’s attachment pathology toward that parent,
A two-person attribution of causality,
- Allied Parent Abusive: Or the allied parent is psychologically abusing the child by creating a shared persecutory delusion and false (factitious; artificially created) attachment pathology in the child for secondary gain to the narcissistic-borderline-dark personality parent of manipulating the court’s decisions regarding child custody, and to meet the pathological parent’s own emotional and psychological needs – DSM-5 V995.51 Child Psychological Abuse,
a three-person – triangle – attribution of causality.
Diagnosis guides treatment in all of healthcare, including all of mental health care. If we treat cancer with insulin the patient dies from the misdiagnosed cancer.
You did nothing wrong. It’s not your fault. You don’t need to defend or prove reality, you simply need the doctors to do their job. You have a crazy (delusional) ex-spouse who is inducing the false beliefs (a factitious attachment pathology) in the child to manipulate the court.
In ALL cases of severe attachment pathology surrounding court-involved child custody conflict, a proper risk assessment needs to be conducted to the appropriate differential diagnosis for each parent.
We are building the plane while we’re flying the plane, because this is your child and you need a solution. This is the worst possible attachment pathology, there is nothing worse that a complete breach in the parent-child attachment bond. We need to fix it.
You want a treatment plan to fix the pathology (problem) in your child and family. You’re the lay-person patient, that’s all you need to know and do, the doctors need to take it from there – diagnosis into treatment. That’s their job – that’s what the doctor means – they diagnose (identify) and treat (fix) pathology (problems) in children and families.
This is a pathology of lies. Don’t believe them. You don’t need to prove something to someone, you just need them to do their jobs. And don’t believe the nonsense your child says – that’s just crazy stuff – the profession word for “crazy” is delusional, the type of delusion is called a persecutory delusion – a fixed and false belief that they (or someone to whom they are close) are being malevolently treated in some way.
From the APA: “Persecutory Type: delusions that the person (or someone to whom the person is close) is being malevolently treated in some way.” (American Psychiatric Association, 2000)
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857
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