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Dr. Price-Tobler walks her graduation today in Australia. Or maybe it was yesterday, I get confused with Australia. It’s now. I’m attending. Sort of. She sent me the Zoom-link. I love the Internet.
Dr. Price-Tobler has also written a book from her dissertation research regarding the now-adult survivors of childhood psychological abuse. It’s being sent off to the publishers.
I wrote the Foreward for Dr. Price-Tobler’s upcoming book. Wanna hear my Foreward?
I have had the pleasure of knowing Dr. Price-Tobler professionally for many years, and I personally know her to be a dedicated clinician to the substantial benefit of her clients. Dr. Price-Tobler has a broader 38 year professional background in adolescents and adults with severe emotional and psychological disabilities affecting their lives, while also maintaining a more focused practice with the now-adult survivors of severe level child psychological abuse by a pathological parent.
The research and clinical work of Dr. Price-Tobler with adolescents and families in high-conflict custody litigation is superior ground-breaking research in a much-needed area, child psychological abuse prevention and recovery. The child abuse pathology in the family courts has gone unrecognised and neglected for 40 years of forensic psychology, as is typical for all forms of child abuse prior to its overt recognition. Child abuse is always a neglected and hidden pathology, until it is recognised. Once child abuse is seen, we protect the child. Until the child abuse is recognised, children are abused and remain unprotected.
The failure of professional psychology for the past 40 years in misdiagnosing (misidentifying) the pathology in the family courts as being something other than child abuse has led to generations of abused and untreated children, who now, as adults, struggle with a variety of life issues as a result of their undiagnosed and untreated psychological abuse as a child. It is to these now-adult survivors of child psychological abuse that Dr. Price-Tobler brings her research efforts to understanding their needs, toward a goal of developing a treatment protocol for the recovery of healthy development with the now-adult survivors.
Dr. Price-Tobler brings accomplished professional insights to her own personal experience as a now-adult survivor of severe level psychological child abuse and abduction in her own childhood history. The life course that Dr. Price-Tobler took to her current professional accomplishments is a testament to the resilience of now-adult children of psychological abuse in overcoming both the psychological abuse of childhood and the neglect from the professional community regarding their damaged attachment beliefs.
Dr. Price-Tobler’s research provides a valuable first step to understanding the unique experience of the now-adult survivors of abuse by a narcissistic-borderline-dark personality parent. This ground-breaking research provides novel and valuable insights into the current experiences of now-adult survivors and potential insights into possible differing strains of the pathology’s severity and expression.
In particular, Dr. Price-Tobler brings potential directions for more deeply understanding the psychological damage to children caused by child abduction surrounding divorce and child custody conflict. Creating severe attachment pathology (psychotic-range) in the child for secondary gain of manipulating the court’s decisions regarding child custody creates significant psychological damage in the child (from an induced persecutory delusion and factitious attachment pathology imposed on the child). The additional complex trauma of child abduction, however, adds an entirely new layer of trauma and psychological child abuse that the current research by Dr. Price-Tobler begins to examine.
The professional, academic scholarship of Dr. Price-Tobler is exceptional and is a credit to her mental health practitioner training, her lived experience, and her dedication to the well-being of her clients. The quality of scholarship from Dr. Price-Tobler clearly indicates her dedication to well-serve her clients and is a credit to the profession.
I anticipate with eagerness the upcoming Volume Two of her twin PhD study pertaining to the mental health practitioners who work therapeutically with now adult survivors, and additional work from Dr. Price-Tobler.
Regards, Dr Craig Childress.
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Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857
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