Forward by Craig Childress , Psy D
Flying Monkeys & Social Distribution
The pathology in the family courts has many interesting and unique features. For one thing, the pathogen has motivation, it wants to create itself.
No other pathology has motivation to be the pathology. The autistic child doesn’t want to be autistic, ADHD doesn’t fight to remain ADHD, the person can’t help but produce the symptoms of the problem they’re having.
With this pathology, however, the pathology of the narcissistic-borderline-dark personality parent NEEDS to create the pathology in the child in order to create a false narrative – the trauma reenactment narrative – of a supposedly “abusive” targeted parent, the supposedly “victimized” child, and the supposedly “protective” allied parent.
But it’s all a false narrative created by the pathology in the narcissistic-borderline-dark personality parent, and it meets diagnostic criteria for both a shared persecutory delusion and a factitious (false) attachment pathology imposed on the child (FDIA).
Google factitious: artificially created or developed.
This is a false pathology. This is a pathology of lies.
If we try to alter what the pathological parents is seeking to do, i.e., if we try to change the false attachment pathology and promote bonding of the child to the targeted parent, the allied parent (and psychologically controlled child) will fight AGAINST treatment, seeking to keep the child’s pathology in place.
No other pathology (problem) fights AGAINST being solved, no other pathology wants to be the pathology. This pathology does.
As you examine in closer detail this unique and interesting motivational feature of this specific pathology, you’ll discover it’s because it’s ultimately an attachment trauma pathology that has crystallized into the personality disorder pathology of the parent – now being transferred to the child – the trans-generational transmission of attachment trauma.
The attachment system is a primary motivational system of the brain. Because this pathology is an attachment-trauma pathology, the damaged information structures in the person’s attachment networks (the pathogen) has access to the person’s motivational networks – it is a motivational pathology, a problem in the motivations for love-and-bonding (the attachment system).
Eating disorders also have this motivational feature, i.e., the motivation to remain eating disorders. Eating disorders are a pathology (problem) in another primary motivational system of the brain, the eating system. Eating disorders are a motivational pathology as well, just to a different primary motivational system.
The attachment system is a primary motivational system of the brain, the love-and-bonding motivational system. A child rejecting a parent is a problem in attachment bonding, it’s a motivational pathology surrounding love-and-bonding.
The pathology in the family courts has another unique and interesting feature – it’s shared between multiple people. It’s a shared delusional pathology. There’s no shared ADHD or shared autism, there’s not even a shared eating disorder – all the other pathologies are individual, the attachment system though, is a ‘shared’ relationship system.
Interestingly, it’s not simply shared between the pathological parent and the child. Once the false trauma reenactment narrative is established, other minds with the unresolved trauma seek to bond into the false narrative in the role of the “protective” other (in parallel to the pathological parent’s role as the “protective” parent).
These pathological people – extended family, mental health professionals, and random people – then become allies of the pathology in enacting the false narrative. In trauma-work this is called the “bystander” role.
There are four roles in child abuse: abusive parent, victimized child, protective parent, bystander.
The pathological bystanders attach as supposedly “protective” others to the false trauma reenactment narrative created by the pathological parent in order to work-through the unresolved attachment trauma of the bystander person.
In psychoanalytic terms, this is called their “counter-transference”.
This pathology seeks allies. No other pathology seeks and acquires allies who work to create and maintain the pathology. This pathology has a social distribution feature – it spreads from brain to brain and creates a shared thought disorder, a shared delusion.
Another important feature of this particular pathology is that it’s the abuse pathology – narcissistic personality pathology is the abuse pathology; child abuse and spousal abuse. It’s from the absence of empathy characteristic of the narcissistic personality. The absence of empathy is the capacity for cruelty (Baron-Cohen).
This pathology is immensely dangerous. This is the most dangerous pathogen on the planet – narcissistic-borderline-dark personalities are extremely dangerous people if you try to stop what they need to do – if you try to interfere with what their damaged motivational networks are requiring them to do.
If you try to stop the pathology of the narcissistic-borderline-dark personality human… they will attack you with great viciousness.
We can see all of these features displayed in the social surround in parallel process – same pathology. This isn’t politics, it’s pathology. I’m using the pathology’s display in the social surround to educate (those who can see) in the features of the pathology.
If you have the eyes to see, it can be helpful to understanding to see the pathology’s multiple features writ large across the public display.
There are allies like Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and Fox who work to enable the pathology to be enacted. Without their support, the Big Lie (the false narrative of persecution) would not exist and survive.
Then there’s another layer of ally. These are the dangerous stray humans who attach to the false narrative for their own darkly malevolent and sadistic purposes. These are the Proud Boys spectrum of allies – these are the SA of Nazi Germany – these are the flying monkey spectrum of allies.
They swarm around and abuse anyone who is trying to alter the enactment of the pathology. They seek to destroy the person professionally and personally through slander, false allegations, and lies.
I first encountered the flying monkey phenomenon surrounding Dorcy Pruter. The pathology and its flying monkey allies have been inflicting abuse on Dorcy for year-and-years. She’s been abused with slander, hostility, and lies her entire time in the family courts because she successfully fixes the breached attachment bond.
The pathogen hates Dorcy… for a reason. She sees it. She fixes it.
Despite all the abuse Dorcy’s endured for the sake of the children and their parents, she’s still standing, which says a lot about the quality of person she is – and – she’s not only still standing, she’s successful.
Stupid pathogen.
When I first recognized that Dorcy had the solution in her hip-pocket with the High Road workshop, and the extent of the flying monkey abuse she endured as a result, I tried to give her all the professional protection I could from my degree-status.
If the flying monkeys wanted to destroy her, they had to get through Dr. Childress first, that provided some layer of protection, but not nearly enough. No one should have to endure the abuse that the professionals seeking to solve the pathology in the family courts have to endure.
We know what the pathology is. We know about flying monkeys. We know that narcissistic-borderline-dark personality pathology is the most dangerous pathology on the planet. We need the APA to get over here. Clinical psychology needs to return to court-involved custody conflict.
But they won’t come, they will refuse because it is too dangerous to their licenses, and after 40 years of being absent from the family courts, none of the clinical psychologists are competent in this court involved factitious attachment and delusional thought disorder pathology created by a narcissistic-borderline-dark personality parent.
With this pathology, it’s not enough to simply identify the pathology, we must also identify – by name – its allies who are supporting and enabling the pathology to exist. The doctors need to be doctors and clearly identify (diagnose) the child abuse and spousal abuse involved… and the doctors will need protection from retaliation.
How do we protect the doctors? Professional psychology tried an experiment with you, they gave you your own “sub-discipline” of psychologists called “forensic” psychologists and then gave them authority to do whatever they wanted to protect themselves.
The forensic psychologists protect themselves from retaliation by exempting themselves from all ethical standards of practice and accountability. The forensic psychologists are allowed by licensing boards to self-review their own… and they all do the same thing.
They cover-up for the unethical malpractice of other forensic psychologists… because they all do the same thing. The licensing boards are corrupted by the influence of the forensic psychologists. How do you think things got so bad here?
No oversight – no meaningful scrutiny (NY Blue Ribbon Commission on Forensic Custody Evaluations).
It’s a mess, and it’s immensely dangerous for any clinical psychologist – or anyone – to try to help you. We need to substantially elevate the standards of practice for psychologists practicing in the family courts – and we need to protect them.
How do we protect them? We need an agreed upon diagnostic assessment and treatment protocol of the highest caliber that accurately diagnoses the pathology for treatment and the court.
This is active child a abuse – DSM-5 V995.51 Child Psychological Abuse. This is active spousal abuse using the child as the weapon – DSM-5 V995.82 Spouse or Partner Abuse, Psychological. The doctors need to return an accurate diagnosis 100% of the time so we can protect the children and their parents.
We have obligations.
How do the psychologists protect themselves? By making an accurate and supported diagnosis that can be verified by second-opinion. We should be generating second opinion (or even third opinion) consultations are all child abuse diagnoses returned in the family courts.
We have the Internet – tele-health consultation is easily available. We, the psychologists, need to go in as pairs. Consultation always improves the quality of healthcare services received.
This is the most dangerous pathogen on the planet. It’s in the family courts. It is cruel and abusive – it is narcissistic, psychopathic, manipulative, delusional, retaliatory, and sadistic…
…and it is currently undiagnosed and untreated.
We need focused attention paid to the family courts from professional psychology – from the APA – we have obligations. We are failing our obligations to the court, to the parents, and to the children.
Children, parents, and professionals are being abused daily surrounding the pathology in the family courts, and it is not being addressed. This is active child abuse. This is active spousal abuse. This is active professional abuse.
And no one is stopping it… yet.
Accountability is coming for the enabling allies. Many of the Jan 6 flying monkeys have been sentenced to jail. We need accountability in the family courts – we need to hold the forensic psychologists accountable for their unethical malpractice, and clinical psychology accountable for their abandonment of these children and parents.
We need to fix things. We can do that, we just need the motivation. This is a motivational pathology.
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857
A flying monkey is someone who enables a narcissists campaign of abuse. Here are the two main types of flying monkey and how to spot them.
— Read on www.narcissisticabuserehab.com/types-of-flying-monkeys/
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