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Family Court – Sharon Stone’s experience/ Charlie McCready

Sharon Stone said during an interview with Bruce Bozzi on his Table for Two podcast that she believes she lost custody of her son because of a ‘kind of abuse by the (family court) system.’ And, in a Saturday Times article, Jan 2024, Sharon Stone talked about how, in 2008, she lost custody of her son, Roan, then 8, whom she shares with Bronstein, after a four-year custody battle following their divorce. She said, ‘… I had envy. Envy of the way they manipulated the court system. And envy is a deeper thing than jealousy. It’s dangerous. It’s in your bones …’ She sees it as the worst period of her life. ‘I was trying to recover from a nine-day brain bleed … and then someone takes your kid … and then they continued by trying to take my reputation ….’ The judge asked her young son, ‘Do you know your mother makes sex movies?’ She says of that horrific experience: ‘And that’s when I understood that the only thing that I could do was hold steady, (with) no response of retaliation.’

I often write about this non-reactive response in posts. It’s difficult because the provocation is immense, the injustice and grief almost unbearable. But the problem is that if we react negatively (in anger or in-kind), the focus is directed to that rather than the root cause of the problem. The alienating parent then sits back and says, ‘See!’

I hope it’s true her son has now changed his name from Roan Bronstein to Roan Joseph Bronstein Stone. Thanks to Sharon Stone for sharing her story and spreading awareness about spurious, devastating family court rulings.

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Family Court Crisis – Craig Childress PsyD

Well… there’s your DSM-5 core of three:

Chapter 1 DSM-5 Diagnosis

Chapter 4 Diagnosing Delusions

Chapter 5 Diagnosing FDIA

Chapter 6 is going to be Diagnosing Attachment Pathology. Chapter 7 will be Diagnosing & Treating Family Systems Pathology. Chapter 8 will be The Dark Personalities.

At least that’s my plan. I don’t lead, I follow.

The family courts are in a crisis – there are no competent mental health services available. Parents, children, and the courts need a diagnostic assessment of the family conflict to the appropriate differential diagnoses for each parent… and they can’t get one.

Anywhere. Clinical diagnostic assessments of the family conflict are not being offered to parents and the courts by professional psychology. They are provided for all other forms of pathology, ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety disorders, everything else.

Parents can get a diagnostic assessment for ADHD or autism easy peasy. Diagnostic assessments are easily available for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

But parents and the courts cannot get a diagnostic assessment for their pathology – a shared persecutory delusion and FDIA – because that’s not offered to them by professional psychology… by forensic psychologists.

The court-involved forensic psychologists do something… different… they do something called a “forensic custody evaluation”… that does not return a diagnosis and it solves nothing.

So you’re kinda stuck until professional psychology – the doctors – decide to offer you clinical diagnostic assessments for the DSM-5 diagnoses of concern.

Hmm… shouldn’t your treatment providers in the family courts diagnose what the pathology is (identify at a professional level what the problem is) BEFORE they start treatment for something… shouldn’t their first identify (diagnose) what that something is?

Yes. Do they? No. They lack the necessary knowledge and information. Google ignorance: lack of knowledge or information.

They’re ignorant mental health providers… which is a problem.

A substantial problem.

The patient should NEVER need to educate the doctor about the pathology, its assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. The doctor should already known, and it’s the doctor who should educate the patient.

The parents in the family courts are educating the doctors about the pathology. THAT… is a substantial problem.

If a doctor needs to be educated about what the pathology is, its diagnosis, and its treatment, then that doctor is not competent in that pathology by demonstrated need to be educated about it.

This is child abuse. This is spousal abuse using the child as the spousal abuse weapon. Don’t all mental health professionals have a duty to protect? Yes.

Aren’t they then failing in their duty to protect by failing to conduct a proper risk assessment for child abuse when a risk assessment is warranted by the symptoms and context?

Yes, they are.

All the involved mental health professionals in the family courts are failing in their duty to protect the child from child abuse by a pathological narcissistic-borderline-dark personality parent – and – they are failing in their duty to protect the targeted parent from spousal psychological abuse using the child (and the child’s induced pathology) as the spousal abuse weapon.

The NY Blue-Ribbon Commission on Forensic Custody Evaluations called what they do, their forensic custody evaluations, “dangerous” and “harmful to children”, and they recommended that forensic custody evaluations be entirely eliminated from the family courts.

But that’s all you have. Clinical psychologists don’t work in the family courts, the pathology is too dangerous (narcissistic-borderline-dark personalities are highly vengeful). You were given your own “special” psychologists just for you – called “forensic psychologists” – they are the worst imaginable.

They are ignorant – lack knowledge and information.

They are unethical – violations to Standards 2.01, 2.04, 9.01.

They are incompetent – they solve nothing.

And that’s all you’re given. Why is that? I don’t think that’s right. You should have standard healthcare services like everyone else has with every other type of pathology (problem).

The patient should NEVER have to explain the pathology to the doctor. If anyone should explain a pathology to a doctor, it should be another doctor.

Okay. You now have somewhere to point your doctors to educate them… here’s Dr. Childress explaining how to diagnose a shared persecutory delusion… here’s Dr. Childress explaining out to diagnose FDIA.

I have a 50-page booklet – Assessment of Attachment Related Pathology Surrounding Divorce. It explains a six-session assessment protocol.

My estimate is that an accurate clinical diagnosis can be rendered within 4 to 6 weeks.

I recommend obtaining a second-opinion on the clinical diagnostic assessment through telehealth for all court-ordered assessments – the appellate system in healthcare for a disputed diagnosis is second opinion.

This is going to be a disputed diagnosis.

In healthcare, we get our second opinions up front at the start because we need our diagnoses accurate and early to guide our treatment.

This is child abuse. We need a – timely – risk assessment that returns an accurate diagnosis 100% of the time, and a diagnosis that the court can rely on for its decision-making surrounding the child.

I have a 50-page booklet – Contingent Visitation Schedule. It’s a strategic family systems intervention for the treatment of an FDIA diagnosis surrounding child custody. It flexes visitation time in a defined and structured way based on child symptoms.

I presented on how to run a Contingent Visitation Schedule at the 2024 APA national convention here in Seattle, then I went home and immediately did the same presentation using the same slides to my YouTube channel.

My oh my. I’m explaining everything. I’m explaining the diagnosis in detail. I’ve provided the assessment protocol. I’ve provided and explained the treatment protocol.

Dum-dee-dum… I don’t know what more I can do. As long as your doctors – the “forensic psychologists” who work in the family courts remain entirely unmotivated (lazy) and incompetent (and unethical: violations to Standards 2.01, 2.04, 9.01, 3.04, failure in duty to protect)… then there is nothing I can do.

I can lead the horse to water… but the horse has to drink from the knowledge. Ignorance solves nothing. Lazy solves nothing. Incompetent doctors cause harm – they are “dangerous” and “harmful to children” – and their “defective” practices lead to “potentially disastrous consequences for parents and children.”

Don’t expect rescue. All the oxygen is being sucked from the room of public attention. You’re on your own… almost. You have me.

I’m just a lone clinical psychologist. We need to find you your treatment providers where you live. I’m in Seattle… and… I can be anywhere on the planet through telehealth.

Just log into my online office (doxy,me/drchildress), flip the monitor around and I’m in the room, howdy. With proper permissions, I can be in any assessment or therapy session as a second opinion consultant.

Isn’t that convenient? You only have one ally… and I’m enough. What you need is motivation in your doctors – they call themselves “forensic psychologists”. They’re not motivated… yet.

This is a motivational pathology. I’m a specialist in motivational pathology – the attachment system is a primary motivational system of the brain. I know motivational systems.

I’m working on it. You work on it too. Forensic custody evaluations are ending – a paradigm shift is occurring BACK to clinical psychology. Perhaps you can convince some of your local psychologists to “switch teams” and go back to clinical psychology (diagnosis & treatment) in the family courts.

Otherwise… parents and the courts will have no competent mental health services available. Too bad. You don’t deserve competent mental health services it appears.

I wonder why that is?

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist

WA 61538481

OR 3942 – CA 18857

Pathology of Lies – Craig Childress , PsyD

Parallel Process

I will need to go silent on our world around us… it’s becoming too dangerous to speak out. But before I grow silent… I’ll make some observations for the 50% of minds who can see.

Compassion is a good thing. Empathy for the suffering of others is a good thing.

The absence of empathy is the capacity for cruelty – and the capacity for cruelty is the source of evil. The Dark Triad and Dark Tetrad are the core of evil.

The pathology in the family courts is evil. The pathology in our social surround is evil.

They – the target – whether in the family courts or in our society – “deserve” to suffer for their inadequacy… for their sins… for the bad things they supposedly did.

In the family courts, that’s the targeted parent who “deserves” to suffer – in our social surround… we have a variety of targets du jour. Pick your favorite target of fear – non-White people of color – the deep state – immigrants – liberals – LGBTQ – people who are different.

Anyone who makes me afraid.

In the family courts the targeted parent “deserves” to suffer because of their supposed inadequacy as a parent. That’s the narcissistic value system of cruelty – it’s okay to be cruel to someone when they “deserve” it.

The child is taught this narcissistic value of cruelty – and the child says immensely cruel things to the targeted parent because the parent supposedly “deserves” to suffer for what they did to the child, for their inadequacy as a parent.

In our social surround, the targets for cruelty are people of color, non-White immigrants, federal workers who are lazy, LGBTQ who are different, the media who criticize, Ukraine, pick your target who “deserve” to suffer because of the supposedly bad things they did.

Ukraine started the war – they deserve to suffer.

Trans-gender are different – they deserve to suffer.

People of color are not White – they deserve to suffer.

Federal workers are lazy parasites – they deserve to suffer.

The Jews killed Jesus – they deserve to suffer.

Pick your target. Whoever you want, whoever makes you afraid, whoever is different. The old woman who lives alone must be a witch – burn her.

They didn’t do bad things. They’re just normal-range people. The target, whether it’s the targeted parent in the family courts, or the targeted scapegoat in society, is just normal.

But they are villainized to justify the cruelty inflicted on them – they “deserve” to suffer, they “deserve” the cruelty.

We are purging our Shadow. We are purging our darkness within that we project onto the other to make them “deserve” our cruelty, reflecting our damaged love and bonding system, our absence of empathy for their suffering.

No one will comes. There’s no rescue. Not now, not when we’ve reached the purging of our Shadow. Your abuser can dominate you and do whatever they want… and there’s nothing you can do about it.

They have allies with power… you don’t. Accept your abuse like a good compliant victim.

Maga-mind is the pathological parent. Trump is the narcissistic dad variant (Dark Triad/Dark Tetrad). The 50% of the nation who are liberal (i.e., have normal-range compassion and empathy for the child-nation and each other) are the normal-range targeted parent in the parallel process of abuse.

The narcissistic dad-parent makes false allegations that are used to justify their cruelty – Ukraine started the war with Russia – whoever the “they” are of their selected victim will “deserve” to suffer for the bad things they did.

The bad things aren’t actually bad things… the bad things are the unresolved trauma from childhood – the lack of love – the attachment trauma – that is then projected onto the other.

The “bad-mommy” or “bad-man” of the family court narrative is not real, it’s a lie, it represents the unresolved trauma in the pathological parent from their childhood that is being projected onto the current normal-range mom or dad.

It’s called a scapegoat. The sins of the sinful person are projected into the target, and then the target is killed to supposedly alleviate the person’s sins.

There were no sins in the scapegoat. The targeted parent is a normal-range mom or dad, the sins of narcissistic cruelty are in the allied parent. The sins remain in the person and are never transferred to the scapegoat.

It’s all projection. To see inside them, flip what they say to make it about themselves… everything will be revealed.

Pathological Parent: “I’m not the inadequate parent (spouse) – you are. You deserve to suffer for your inadequacy as a parent (spouse). You never loved the child (me) as the child “deserves” to be loved (as I deserve to be loved).”

Truth: “I’m an inadequate parent (and spouse). I deserve to be rejected because of the bad things I am. I don’t love the child, I never loved you. I’m incapable of love because I’m inadequate as a person.”

Everything – everything – everything – about this pathology is projection. Flip it and you’ll see what’s going on. The pathological narcissistic-borderline-dark personality parent isn’t revealing truth about the targeted parent… they are revealing the truth about themselves.

Pathological Parent: “The targeted parent is abusing the child” –

Reality: “I am abusing the child.”

The pathological parent decides who “deserves” their cruelty because of the “bad things” they did (the unresolved trauma from childhood that can never be solved) – it’s the unresolved trauma being projected out onto the target.

Pathological Parent: “I’m not bad – you are. You deserve to suffer for the bad things you do.”

What to look for in the assessment of the court-involved family conflict is the absence of empathy – the capacity for cruelty – probe for empathy and you won’t find it. A normal-range person will feel sad at the suffering of others – a pathologically cruel person won’t.

When prompted for empathy – when given a situation that should provoke empathy and compassion – the pathological parent (and child) in the family courts will respond that the targeted parent “deserves” to suffer for some past injury they supposedly inflicted on the child (or allied parent).

What’s interesting about this pathogen – i.e, about the projection of unresolved trauma in the attachment networks – a ripple of childhood attachment trauma – is that there are people who will be in the role of the targeted parent in the family court context, and who are in the role of the psychologically abusive parent in the social context of our times.

And they cannot see the parallel process. A shared delusion cannot – cannot – see itself… “despite contrary evidence” – it’s impossible.

I’m a mirror. I’m showing you to you. They will attack the mirror for the refection they see.

One reason among many that I post on Trump is to push the Maga-minds away from here.

I’m making a point not yet comprehended – I’m identifying a group of minds. They care more about Trump than they do their own children. I’m making a point about their motivations – I’m a mirror.

They can’t see themselves – no self-reflective insight. It’s impossible. Everything inside is projected out – that is the defense.

There’s a large group of targeted parents who won’t come to this location to receive the information I provide here about how to help their children, how to protect their child from child abuse, because they care more about Trump than they do the information.

If there is negative (contrary) information about Trump… their motivation to avoid the negative information will be stronger than their motivation to protect their child. It’s a cult.

How many times has the parent-child relationship in the family courts been described as a cult mind? That’s a good description of the fused psychological state.

I’m a mirror. I show you to you.

Another reason I comment about what’s happening is to teach using the parallel process for those 50% of minds that are not part of the shared persecutory delusion of “we’re being malevolently treated in some way” – who are not part of the cult.

The pathology of the Dark Triad/Dark Tetrad variant is on full display. It’s the core of evil.

We’re headed for complete destruction – with forensic psychology in the family courts – in our social surround. Same. Parallel process. It’s the same pathogen there and here, a Dark Triad/Dark Tetrad pathology.

Some things can only be seen looking the other direction in time. Trauma shuts down the frontal lobe executive function systems for three things – linear-logical reasoning – foresight and planning ahead – self-reflective insight.

The absence of foresight is going to become a substantial problem… for the forensic psychologists in the family courts… for the Trump administration.

Once you destroy, you then need to govern with a dysfunctional system. The mental health system in the family courts is completely broken. The system of forensic custody evaluations is entirely dysfunctional.

Same thing.

The exact same thing will happen in our social surround. Watch. Everything will be torn down and broken, beginning with the rule of law, everything will become chaotic and dysfunctional… just like the family courts and the mental health system in the courts.

There’s a reason no prior president ever did what Trump is doing. Do you want to know the reason? Wait… you’ll find out.

There are NO competent mental health services in the family courts. None. Zero. Parents are 98% UNABLE to get a diagnostic assessment of their families, and 100% unable to get effective treatment.

Let that sink in – understand it. There are no – none – zero – competent mental health services in the family courts. Parents cannot – cannot – get a diagnosis for the problem.

Everyone everywhere else, with all the other forms of pathology (problem) can get a diagnosis and treatment. Not parents and children in the family courts – zero – none.

We are headed into a state of complete dysfunction in the family courts – and – with our nation. This is the Encounter time. This is my time to Encounter the forensic psychologists directly. I’m going to collapse the dysfunctional system – so it can be properly rebuilt.

Trump is entirely collapsing the systems of government – so he and his minions can rebuild them in their desired image – long live King Donald I.

I’m encountering the forensic psychologists – by name – I’m destroying the “deep state” of psychologists who are disabling the mental health system response to the pathology.

I’m riding the same lines – just differently. I’m a clinical psychologist, so I’ve flipped some things on the lines of unfolding. Your lines will take a darker turn.

This is a pathology of lies – in the family courts – in our society.

Ukraine didn’t start the war. Russia did. Everything about this pathology is a lie. It isn’t about custody, it’s about treatment. The solution is NOT in the legal system, a child rejecting a parent is not a crime, it’s a pathology. The solution is in the healthcare system – diagnosis and treatment.

BUT… you can’t get a diagnosis or treatment. The systems in the family courts are 100% dysfunctional. We are headed toward the same thing everywhere around us.

We are purging. I’ll be purging the mental health system in the family courts of its incompetence… which will create a 100% dysfunctional system until competent mental health services can be established.

Trump and his Maga-mind minions are purging our society… which will create 100% dysfunctional systems. Same… but different outcomes.

The over-line is the incompetence polarity – the under-line is the competence pole of balance – one dark, one light.

What we’re watching is the Purging. If you want to see an excellent Purging, it’s the French Revolution. I know exactly what’s happening, I’m riding exactly the same lines.

We are in the Encounter phase in our social surround. I’m on the Encounter phase in the family courts. My work is precise. I’m riding lines of movement – cowabunga baby – this is going to be one helluva ride.

I’m estimating my departure from here in five years (plus or minus two)… then… everything becomes entirely your problem and entirely none of mine.

If you’re going to use my understanding and knowledge… you’d better use it quickly, I’m turning 70 this year and I’m not planning on sticking around.

I’ve done things to shorten the time of collapse in the family courts. There’s nothing I can do for you in our larger social surround. I spoke when I need to speak to protect the nation I love.

This is what you want. This is what you need. You need to purge your Shadow… again.

Now it’s time for me to grow silent… it’s becoming too dangerous to speak on the over-line. Hail Trump <Maga hand salute of mutual love>. Everything Trump does is exactly right.

Bots watch. Bots move. Advertising bots creating my algorithm for marketing are one thing, governmental surveillance bots searching for the “enemies within” to be purged are something else.

Elon Musk is going to save us. Elon Must is brilliant. Trump is the anointed of God. Trump is our savior. Mark Zuckerberg is a innovative genius and Meta is my favorite social media platform. We need more tax cuts for the wealthy… it will trickle down to everyone else eventually.

Bots are moving and watching – AI has arrived – Big Brother of 1984 is arriving a few years later than predicted by Orwell. Face recognition is here. They have our data. They know where we are. It’s not quite here yet… but I plan ahead.

I need to clean up my online algorithm so bots won’t locate me. Shhh… Hail Trump <Maga hand gesture of mutual love>. Trump is going to make America Great again. Canada should be our 51st state and we should get Greenland from Denmark. Gaza should be redeveloped into beachfront resorts for the wealthy. Ukraine started the war with Russia. Putin is on our side.

What’s in it for us?

I’ll need to grow silent soon so the bots won’t notice me once the surveillance bots arrive. I’m small, I’m inconspicuous. Nothing to see here. I’m leaving not arriving.

This is your world that’s coming, not mine. This is the world you wanted. This is the world you’ll get.

We need to fire the lazy federal workers. We need to deport immigrants to make our country White again, we need to eliminate the undesirable people. There are no trans-gender people, they don’t exist, and anyone who says they’re trans-gender should be banned from participation in our society and shunned… and they should be persecuted for being different.

Tariffs are an excellent economic policy. Elon Musk will save us. Elon Musk is brilliant and he’s our protector. Elon will make everything right with the world if we simply give him the power to do what he wants to fix the things that are broken.

For those of you following along on your Play at Home version of Parallel Process, as far as I can see, the family courts are ahead of our social surround. The collapse will be quicker, and the recovery will come sooner.

Germany in 1935 took ten years and a World War to reach Germany in 1945… and the world was in ruin when they arrived at the end. We’ve still a long way to go in an increasingly dangerous world around us.

Hail Trump <Maga hand gesture of mutual love>. Trump is always right. Trump is making America Great… again.

We’ll see what happens. June is when the next solid numbers arrive for your equations of you. Watch out for big rocks.

Never mind. It’s too late and there’s nothing the forensic psychologists can do at this point. There’s nothing you can do either. Complete destruction of the old ways is coming – here – there – everywhere.

Long live King Donald I, the anointed of God who will save our nation from the dangers it faces.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist

WA 61538481

OR 3942 – CA 18857

APA , Childress agree, not such thing as parental alienation , it’s Child Psychological Abuse, continuation of Malignant , intimate partner violence

I have tried to change my site to CPA , and will need help doing so.

I’m self taught , with some help from friends on all things computer

Am I clear? I want to be entirely clear. I agree with the American Psychiatric Association.

I’m an old-school conservative clinical psychologist. I apply knowledge, I don’t create it.

The Gardnerian PAS “experts” are a rag-tag group of misfit toys. Am I being vague? I don’t want to be vague, I want to be clear.

They reject the diagnostic guidance of the American Psychiatric Association – they think the APA is wrong and that they know more about diagnosis than the APA – and they reject the ethical guidance of the American Psychological Association – they think ethical standards don’t apply to them.

They’re wrong, they do. Ethical Standards of practice are mandatory. Ethical practice is not optional, it is required.

In 2013 the American Psychiatric Association made its determination on the diagnostic construct of “parental alienation” with the publication of the DSM-5. They said no – the APA said there is no such thing as “parental alienation”. For all professionals, that’s the end of it. That’s the end of the discussion. The APA said no, it does not exist as a diagnostic entity.

I agree 100% with the American Psychiatric Association. The construct of “parental alienation” is the worst diagnostic model for a pathology ever constructed since the beginning of time. It is awful, absolutely awful in so many ways.

The American Psychiatric Association is right. I agree with the American Psychiatric Association, there is no such thing as “parental alienation” – Childress, year 1.

The Gardnerian PAS “experts” assert that the APA is wrong. They assert that they know more about diagnosis and pathology than the American Psychiatric Association does, and they CONTINUE to use a diagnostic construct that does NOT exist in professional psychology.

In continuing to use the construct of “parental alienation” in a professional capacity, the Gardnerian PAS “experts” substantially degrade the quality of mental health services in the family courts.

The Gardnerian PAS “experts” are a fringe group of professionals who reject the diagnostic guidance of the American Psychiatric Association and the ethical guidance of the American Psychological Association.

Meanwhile, the forensic custody evaluators in the family courts are ignorant, incompetent, and unethical – and no one cares. They are simply financially exploiting the parent while solving nothing.

We need a pilot program for the family courts with university involvement for evaluation research to develop standardized high-quality diagnostic assessment and treatment protocols.

Amicus Letter for CA SB-331
https://drcachildress-consulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SB-331-Childress-amicus-letter-4-17-23.pdf

Risk Assessment Handout
https://drcachildress-consulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1-Handout-Risk-Assessment-3-22.pdf

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857