Can we play a game? I want to play a game. It’s a fun game.
It’s called King of the Hill. Ever play it?
I have. Around the age of 12 or so, someone was doing some home building in the neighborhood and brought in truckloads of dirt which they piled into small mounds in a field… and left it there all summer.
The mounds of dirt were perfect for playing King of the Hill, and our neighborhood collective of kids quickly figured that out. It’s a fun game.
Someone starts by standing on top of the hill yelling loudly “I’m King of the Hill” and all the other kids come running to play. Then one-by-one the other kids take their turn at trying to push the King of the Hill off the hill and taking the hill for themselves… for a while… then one-by-one the kids take their turn at pushing that kid off the hill.
You keep going around and around, and eventually the King rises.
Eventually some kid would remain on top of the hill and defeat all the other kids… that’s when the mob-attacks begin.
The rest of the kids would now group-up in twos and threes, how many kids does it take to dethrone the King? At that point, it’s all about the neighborhood honor and bragging rights.
“Do you remember when it took six kids to push Tony off the Hill? He was a mighty King.”
I wanna play King of the Hill. It’s fun. Do you wanna play? I think you’ll like it, it’s a fun game.
I’ll start. “I’m King of the Hill.”
Now one-by-one the other neighborhood kids can try to push me off. It’s so much fun. Have you ever played it? I have. It’s fun.
First, though, we need a hill. You cannot play King of the Hill without a hill. I know the perfect hill. The Expert Hill.
Who’s the world’s Top Number1 Expert regarding the child custody and attachment pathology in the family courts?
Me. I’m the Top Number 1 Expert.
Now… push me off… if you can.
Who’s better than me? Who’s a more Expert expert than I am? Who knows more? Bring your vitae and let’s see.
At first that may seem like a strong statement, and it is, but it’s not as unusual as it seems. We can eliminate nearly everyone else in large groups. Watch.
First we can eliminate all the psychology people who don’t work in the family courts. If they don’t work with the pathology they can’t be the worlds Number 1 Top Expert in it.
So we can eliminate Bessell van der Kolk and Ed Tronick because… they don’t work in the family courts. They know nothing about this attachment pathology that’s here. It’s a dark pathology that’s here.
So immediately we cut the competitors down to just the neighborhood kids who work with the pathology in the family courts.
But we can continue to eliminate the remaining contenders in groups as well. Next.. delusions.
Who has experience in the diagnostic assessment of delusional thought disorders? The pathology in the family courts is a shared (induced) persecutory delusion – acknowledged by Walters & Friedlander who cite to me as the expert in delusional thought disorders.
If you don’t know delusional thought disorders then you don’t know this pathology because that’s what this pathology is – Walters & Friedlander; Family Court Review, 2016.
None of the forensic psychologists have training or experience in the diagnostic assessment of delusional thought disorders – none – zero.
I do. Lots of experience and lots of training.
The ONLY place you get professional-level knowledge of delusional thought disorders is in schizophrenia. No forensic psychologists have experience in schizophrenia.
I do.
For 12 years I worked at UCLA on a major NIMH clinical research project on schizophrenia… where I was trained each year to r=.90 diagnostic reliability to the authors of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Dr. Ventura and Dr. Lukoff.
The BPRS is “one of the oldest, most widely used scales to measure psychotic symptoms” (Wikipedia: BPRS). Delusions is item 11 Unusual Thought Content.
I was trained by the best, the authors of the BPRS, for 12 years in the diagnostic assessment of delusional thought disorders. Here’s the entry from my vitae:
9/85 – 9/98 Research Associate
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
Principle Investigator: Keith Nuechterlein, Ph.D.
Area: Longitudinal study of initial-onset schizophrenia. Received annual training to research and clinical reliability in the rating of psychotic symptoms using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). Managed all aspects of data collection and data processing.
Dr.Childress: 12 years of annual training in the diagnostic assessment of delusional thought disorders to 90% reliability to the authors of the BPRS, “one of the oldest, most widely used scales to measure psychotic symptoms” (Wikipedia: BPRS)..
Forensic psychologists: zero training – zero experience.
The forensic psychologist tumble down the hill en masse.
I’m King of the Hill. I am the world’s Number 1 Top Expert regarding the attachment pathology in the family courts.
We’ve eliminated everyone else.
No one in the family courts has experience in the diagnostic assessment of delusional thought disorders, I do, and the pathology is a persecutory delusion.
But wait… there’s even more, another layer of expertise that divides me from them.
This is an attachment pathology. A child rejecting a parent is an attachment pathology. Expertise in attachment pathology is found within the Early Childhood Mental Health specialization, children ages zero-to-five… the attachment years.
I have Early Childhood Mental Health specialization. Look at my vitae.
So let’s see who remains. No one.
The Gardnerian PAS “experts”? They still believe in the tooth fairy. The PAS “experts” are a fringe group of professionals who reject the diagnostic guidance of the American Psychiatric Association and who reject the ethical guidance of the American Psychological Association.
I assert that the use of the construct of “parental alienation” in a professional capacity is substantially beneath professional standards of practice in clinical psychology and is a violation of Standard 2.04 of the APA ethics code, Bases for Scientific and Professional Judgments.
I assert that the Gardnerian PAS “experts” are unethical – violations to Standards 2.01 and 2.04 of the APA ethics code.
I assert that the Gardnerian PAS “experts” are ignorant. They don’t apply the knowledge (2.04) because they don’t know the knowledge (2.01). The ONLY way they’re “experts” in anything is in their imaginations – they need to make things up.
Google ignorance: lack of knowledge or information
I assert that the reason the PAS “experts” don’t apply the established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline is because they don’t know the established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline.
I’ll also assert that they’ve misdiagnosed the pathology this entire time because they’re lazy, ignorant (lack of knowledge or information), and unethical. If you misdiagnose the pathology for 40 years, you’re not an expert, you’re incompetent.
The diagnosis of a shared delusion was in the DSM-IV the entire time, a Shared Psychotic Disorder. They had the diagnosis IN the DSM the entire time, they simply misdiagnosed it for 40 years because they were fixated on making up “new” pathology rather than apply knowledge… because they don’t know the knowledge.
They are ignorant. They are incompetent. They are unethical.
And they are atrocious diagnosticians.
Who’s that leave?
This is fun. Isn’t this fun? I think it’s fun.
We can eliminate whole groups of people from the competition so the remaining field is small, just the neighborhood kids, like Billy Bernet up on PAS Ln, and Susie Deutsch from over on Forensic Psychology St.
Let’s play King of the Hill.
I’m wondering, do you think it would be helpful to your efforts to protect your children if Dr. Childress was the acknowledged Number 1 Top Expert regarding the attachment pathology in the family courts?
Do you think you might find that helpful in your efforts to protect your children?
I think so.
I am the Worlds Top Number 1 Expert on the pathology in the family courts. That’s reality. That’s not boast, that reality. My expertise is supported by my vitae.
If you want to push me off the hill… bring your vitae.
I have 12 years at UCLA on a schizophrenia research project being trained annually in the diagnostic assessment of delusional thought disorders.
I have Early Childhood Mental Health specialization which is spot-on the attachment system and attachment pathology.
I’ve worked in the family courts with his specific pathology for the past decade and I’ve written the book, Foundations, that describes the pathology in detail at three separate levels of analysis.
I am the world’s Number 1 Top Expert regarding the attachment pathology in the family courts – if not me… who?
Bring your vitae. Push me off the hill. Until someone pushes me off the hill, it’s my hill, I’m King of the Hill. Wanna play? It’s a fun game.
Who else? Name someone.
1) Who is in the family courts working with the pathology that’s here.
2) With training and experience in the diagnostic assessment of delusional thought disorders.
3) With Early Childhood Mental Health education, training, and clinical experience in the attachment system and attachment pathology.
Tronick or Bessel? They don’t work in the family courts. If they come to the family courts, I’ll happily concede the hill to them – but until they come here, they don’t know what’s here. It’s dark.T
Who? The outside folks are gone. The forensic psychologists are gone. The PAS “experts” are gone. Who’s left?
Do you parents think that you might find it helpful to have the world’s Number 1 Top Expert regarding the attachment pathology in the family courts be Dr. Childress?
I think so.
So let’s play King of the Hill. It’s a fun game. Have you ever played King of the Hill? I have. It’s fun.
One kid climbs the hill and yells, “I’m King of the Hill” and the other kids come running. It’s a rough-n-tumble sort of play that boys like to do. It’s fun.
Let’s play.
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857
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