The Pathogen Attacks to Defend
The pathogen attacks threats to it. It attacks viciously to destroy the threat. The pathogen never defends, it always attacks – viciously.
You can see that clearly in the parallel process. Not only direct attacks, flying monkey attacks beneath the surface. The pathogen seeks allies and indirectly directs the allies to attack the target.
I know that. I’m a threat to the the pathogen. It will attack me seeking to destroy my life and career. I know that.
That’s why no clinical psychologists work in the family courts. It is too dangerous. We refuse. We gave you your own “special” psychologists just for you, we call them “forensic” psychologists and they are the worst imaginable… and we don’t care.
If you threaten the license of the doctors… the doctors won’t come to work with you. Here, have these instead.
The pathogen will seek to destroy my life and career. That’s a fact of trying to help you. I will need to be attack proof. I must not allow the pathogen any path to attack me.
But that’s impossible, I’m a human, no human is invulnerable to attack by lies, and the pathogen lies. I cannot become invulnerable to attack… so I must vanish entirely.
This is a pathology of lies. I need to be attack proof. That’s impossible, I can’t be attack proof to lies. In the solution, I will need to vanish. I understood that. I constructed the solution on two separate lines. One line allows me to vanish, while the other line provides guidance from my knowledge to those seeking guidance.
One line is entirely the established knowledge – that’s Bowlby-Minuchin-Beck, the DSM-5, and the APA ethics code. The other parallel line is AB-PA of the Diagnostic Checklist and 12 Associated Clinical Signs.
One’s the over-line. One’s the under-line. There are always two lines moving.
There’s an underline to these twin over-lines involving more me-specific knowledge that I don’t speak about so as not to distract. Once you stop fighting and start listening, I can tell you more about the pathology and its solution.
But first things first. Before I can appear I need to vanish into the knowledge. Twirly thing.
I need to become non-existent by relying entirely on established knowledge. That’s the over-line. There’s no me here, only established knowledge. Attack Minuchin. Attack Bowlby. Attack Beck. Attack Tronick.
I’m standing on the solid Foundations of applied knowledge.
The pathogen has no avenue of attack because there’s nothing me that’s here. I’m like old-man Luke where he’s getting blasted-and-blasted by the bad guy son of Han, and when it’s all over Luke’s still standing there untouched… because he’s not there, he’s on another planet and that’s just an empty image – hee-hee-hee. Luke was clever.
Like that. I’m not here – just knowledge – hee-hee-hee. I’m clever too.
The pathogen attacks – this feature is written large in the parallel process that surrounds us. It always attacks, viciously to destroy. If you’re going to handle this pathogen, be ready to handle a dangerous snarling beast.
It captivates minds. Again, look to the parallel process to see the process of captured minds. It’s a cult-mind. It obtains allies in its attacks.
People who see the pathology liken the mind-control feature to a cult-mind. Everyone who sees the pathogen in our current social surround sees the cult-mind quality of the pathogen’s mind-manipulation
It is a cult-mind, it’s an induced persecutory delusion – a shared persecutory delusion.
That’s the pathology. A shared delusion cannot – cannot – see itself. That is a neurological impossibility for a delusion because… that’s the nature of a delusion. No amount of evidence will ever change a delusion.
It is thought disorder, that’s the pathology domain. The type of thought disorder is a delusion – a fixed and false belief maintained despite contrary evidence. The type of delusion is a persecutory type, a fixed and false belief in supposed victimization.
It’s a problem in thinking and perception. A persecutory delusion is a fixed and false belief that the person (or someone to whom the person is close) is 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).
Narcissistic and borderline personalities are known to collapse into persecutory delusions under stress. That is a known fact – cite to Millon, cite to Barnow.
Divorce is stressful. The pathology of concern in the family courts is a possible shared (induced) persecutory delusion and false (factitious) attachment pathology imposed on the child for secondary gain to a narcissistic-borderline-dark personality parent.
So… let’s assess for the pathology of concern.
I don’t know about you, but that seems kinda obvious to me. If we’re worried about a possible shared (induced) persecutory delusion in the family… then let’s assess for a possible shared (induced) persecutory delusion in the family.
The only cause of severe attachment pathology is abusive-range parenting by one parent or the other. The only diagnostic question is, which parent?
So… let’s answer that question with certainty so that we can develop an effective treatment plan to fix the problem. Diagnosis guides treatment. If we treat cancer with insulin the patient dies from the misdiagnosed cancer.
What’s the diagnosis? Which parent is abusing the child?
In all cases of court-involved custody conflict involving severe attachment pathology displayed by a child, a proper risk assessment for child abuse needs to be conducted to the appropriate differential diagnoses for each parent.
All cases. Every time.
When possible child abuse is a considered diagnosis, our diagnosis needs to be accurate 100% of the time. Misdiagnosing child abuse is too devastating to the child.
I’m a threat to the pathogen. The pathogen will attack me and seek to destroy me. I know that. This is the most dangerous pathogen on the planet. I know that too.
I need to vanish. I’m not really here. Attack Bowlby. Attack Minuchin. Attack Beck and van der Kolk, and Tronick. Attack the DSM-5. Attack the APA ethics code Standards 2.01, 2.04, & 9.01.
Because me? I’m just a clinical psychologist. I apply knowledge, I don’t create it. The established knowledge of the discipline is what it is. The APA ethics code says what it says. Reality is reality. Attack reality.
It will. This is a pathology of lies. This is the most dangerous pathogen on the planet, and it’s in the family courts unrecognized and untreated. We need to see it – diagnose it – and treat it.
Professional psychology is failing in its obligations to the children, professional psychology is failing the parents, and professional psychology is failing the courts.
Professional psychology needs to step-up to its obligations and provide the courts – and the children – with the highest caliber of professional services – the highest.
A child’s life hangs in the balance of the court’s decisions. This is potential child abuse one way or the other. The court needs and deserves the highest caliber of professional information, and the child needs the highest caliber of professional services.
This is possible child abuse. We can’t get this wrong.
With this specific pathology – with a shared delusional disorder – if you believe the shared delusion, you become PART of the shared delusion, you become PART of the pathology.
When that pathology is child abuse, you, the mental health person, become PART of the child abuse because of your negligent and incompetent misdiagnosis.
When that pathology is the emotional and psychological spousal abuse of the targeted parent using the child as the weapon, you, the mental health person, become PART of the spousal abuse because of your negligent and incompetent misdiagnosis.
Oh my. Does that mean there are mental health professionals working in the family courts who are child abusers and spousal abusers of their clients?
Yes.
That makes my head explode. Once it’s acknowledged that it’s child abuse, once the shared-induced persecutory delusion is diagnosed… that has implications for misdiagnosis as well.
We need to fix the problem. The pathogen does not want to fix the problem. The pathogen will be threatened by me trying to fix the problem. The pathogen will attack me – with viciousness seeking to completely destroy me.
I know that. I’ve prepared for that. I’ve vanished entirely into the knowledge. Apply knowledge to solve pathology. Ignorance solves nothing.
The twin minions of the pathogen are ignorance and indolence. The mental health system in the family courts has been infected with both. We need to cleanse the pathogen’s allies of ignorance and indolence from professional psychology in the family courts.
Forensic psychology in the family courts is a failed experiment in service delivery to a vulnerable population.
Forensic psychologists – specific people with names – are acting to disable the mental health system response to the pathology in the family courts for their own financial and career status gain.
Clinical psychology – diagnosis and treatment – needs to return to court-involved custody conflict.
But the moment the forensic psychologists admit their failure, the moment the pathology in the family courts is identified as Child Psychological Abuse (DSM-5 V995.51)… that means they misdiagnosed the pathology the entire time – for decades.
The lives of thousands upon thousands of children and their parents were destroyed because of their failed experiment and misdiagnosis. For decades, the forensic psychologists participated in child abuse and spousal abuse using the child as the weapon.
You know it’s true. You were there. It happened to you. You watched it happen. You know it and I know it… and they know it.
We are now in the cover-up phase before change. Change will require acknowledging their failure – they won’t do that – we must do that before we can change.
You did nothing wrong. It’s not your fault. Bad people did bad things. We are going to make them stop.
The damage has been done to so many – no more damage. Enough. We need an accurate diagnosis to guide the development of an effective treatment plan to fix the problem.
Full stop.
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857
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