Tag: Law

Mary Maddock , Mind Freedom , Ireland -Recovery

Our stories are similar , I did not have electroshock

Even Mary’s wedding picture looks like mine .

Much admiration and gratitude for Mary’s every effort to educate and earn others .

Hindsight as Evidence

I write this on the eve of my 48th wedding anniversary

This year on November 8th I hopefully will be 75 years strong. I met Jim in 1973. I have known him for almost 5O years..When we published our book in 2006 I did not have my medical records. Sixteen years later I am much wiser about my personal history and the history of the corrupt relationship between psychiatry, allopathic medicine, the state and other professions, especially the law.

Since becoming prescription drug-free at the turn of the Millenium I did everything humanly possible to find out the truth about what really happened to me when I was electroshocked and drugged by medical professionals. It was only then that I could look back at my terrible, traumatic experience which was and still is the living torture of survivors of psychiatry.

When we wrote our book ‘ Soul Survivor – A Personal Encounter With Psychiatry’ I was so damaged by bio/coercive/deceptive psychiatry that I thought I would not live to see it published. However, as the years went by I became stronger in mind, body and spirit. We could have written many more books since but those who know me and have found out more true facts themselves are aware that I have always been actively involved in speaking out and doing groundwork ever since. I have been privileged to get to know so many, outstanding, kind human beings. A big Thank You to every single person who crossed my path. Indeed if we were able to include our work together we would have much more evidence than the six week, deceptive, experimental trials that are passed as evidence by Irish psychiatrist Patricia Casey and her companions.

As Patricia said it is indeed her bread and butter. She has a vested interest in believing that contrived drug trials funded by Big, Corrupt Corrupt Companies will produce real evidence. Her christanity would have taught her what 30 pieces of silver can do and how angry Jesus Christ was about people collecting money outside a temple but she thinks that it is okay to accept bribes from co operations with clearly vested interests. When she was the main speaker, I and other members of MindFreedom Ireland heard her speak strongly in favour of the chemical imbalance theory many years ago. It was funded by Big Pharma. We challenged her then and we still challenge her today but were kept silent then and we are still kept silent today. The established media bow to so-called professionals who read biassed books and medical journals and are more interested in protecting themselves than those they feign to ‘help’.

We on the other hand are labelled with fictional, non-scientific ‘diagnoses’ ( ironically diagnose means to understand!) with no medical biomarkers to establish their labels exist. We are legally treated as sub/non-human and told that this is not discrimination. The law protects psychiatry and psychiatry protects the law. The state protects psychiatry and psychiatry protects the state. Then the established media protects all three. Is it any wonder we are kept silent? Is it any wonder that we feel distressed? Is it any wonder we find it difficult to be employed? Is it any wonder we are so easily drugged/electroshocked? Is it any wonder the marginalised who comprise most of the population are victims?

It can seem like there is no way out but we know the truth. We know it and many others, fortunate enough not to be labelled and drugged by psychiatry can find our way to be our own media. Everyone can do this the old-fashioned, real way by word of mouth. It was because of word of mouth that I had music pupils!! Thankfully psychiatry did not deprive me of my ability to teach also. It made it much more difficult. It was a miracle. It gave me some appreciation of my own ability.

To survive hardship we need to be strong. Psychiatry labels us weak while many who define us are very weak themselves. We need to be strong to know we are fragile. We need to be strong to say we are sorry. Everyone makes mistakes. It is by our mistakes we learn. If we continue to make the same mistakes many times it is difficult to learn. The history of psychiatry is a litany of mistakes. Yesterday’s errors become tomorrow’s and tomorrow’s while the litany of victims becomes longer and longer.

To break this cycle the public needs to wake up. I know it is difficult when most people can be very stressed finding their basic needs. Evolution requires constant change. We have got the ability to make choices. As Vandana Shiva reminds us so wisely we start with the soil. In order to protect ourselves first let us start at the beginning. We came from mother earth and we go back to it! We are honoured to play our part. Mary Maddock

Spiritual Warfare : Update

Much of what he says I have

heard or equates and makes

sense given current status

and events .

This does boil down to war

of spirit and shadow . It only

takes 11% of the worlds

population to effect change

and this return to love is

New Earth’s core which is

not going to be everyone’s

experience .

Lightening our ” loads ” ,

laying burdens down , know

truths are liberating as the

tribes form and we are the

force of evolution leaping

quantum style and these

horrific cycles never show

up again.

Sacrifices have been tragic in

this leap , as those who have

not awakened struggle and

hold tighter to their imbalance

of mind , body and spirit .

Fear and anger prevail and

not only affect your health

but fail to attract the more

positive experiences . Ease

Peace and Faith guide my

Love and that remains .

This is a big freaking deal

and I’m Thankful for my

personal transformations

of decades and the ancestral

bloodlines benevolent support

and trust !

Blessings & Peace ,

Dona Luna ❤️🙏🌈😘

youtube.com/watch

Liz Cheney

From where I’m at in life ,Liz

Cheney is clearing ancestral

bloodlines ; especial the

shadow of her father Dick

Cheney. Doubtful that she’s

aware of her clearing , as I

honor her valor as a truther .

This is what I surmise as Liz

examples the warning if not

the example that the feminine

of this world have a place at

the table that is devoid of

distortions, inequality and

alliance or adoration for

patriarchal guidance and

control .

Both parties are in need of

major transformation but

one party exceeds at

implosion.

I unconsciously married a

Republican who has taught

me so much about the shadow

side and I study as well as

experience the division that

was encouraged to bring about

civil war and give rise to

martial law ; more control .

Law has failed many from

bottom to top and that’s

worthy of change .

Blessings on this glorious

Sunday 🙏😘✌️❤️

news.yahoo.com/liz-cheney-says-jan-6-151350411.html

Slavery via Marriage can actualize

This is an actual extract from a sex education school textbook for

girls, printed in the early 60’s in the UK. So goodnight don’t have nightmares 😂

When retiring to the bedroom, prepare yourself for bed as promptly as

possible. Whilst feminine hygiene is of the utmost importance, your

tired husband does not want to queue for the bathroom, as he would have to do for his train. But remember to look your best when going to bed. Try to achieve a look that is welcoming without being obvious. If you need to apply face-cream or hair-rollers wait until he is asleep as this can be shocking to a man last thing at night.

When it comes to the possibility of intimate relations with your

husband it is important to remember your marriage vows and in particular your commitment to obey him. If he feels that he needs to sleep immediately then so be it. In all things be led by your husband’s wishes; do not pressure him in any way to stimulate intimacy. Should your husband suggest congress then agree humbly all the while being mindful that a man’s satisfaction is more important than a woman’s. When he reaches his moment of fulfilment a small moan from yourself is encouraging to him and quite sufficient to indicate any enjoyment that you may have had.

Should your husband suggest any of the more unusual practices be

obedient and uncomplaining but register any reluctance by remaining silent. It is likely that your husband will then fall promptly asleep so adjust your clothing, freshen up and apply your night-time face and hair care products. You may then set the alarm so that you can arise shortly before him in the morning. This will enable you to have his morning cup of tea ready when he awakes.

ABA – Craig Childress

Amazing.

Do you know how amazing this ABA data is? No. That’s because you’re heathen savages – savages I say.

This is absolutely amazing in multiple ways. When the Wheel turns on this pathology in the family courts and the world reorients into reality… professional people are going to be amazed by two things about this data, first Dorcy, then Dr. Childress.

It will be an unfolding amazement. I’m actually more amazing than Dorcy, but it unfolds through layers. Dorcy shifts context to shift brain states. I’m inside your brain changing your brain networks directly, tweaking things here, fiddling with that regulatory thing over there.

I know your brain. I’m in your brain. As long as I’m here, I might as well do some helpful stuff to tidy-up the untidy.

Dorcy Pruter is Amazing

First… Amazing number one is Dorcy’s High Road workshop (B phase), she recovered a child from three years of documented child psychological abuse, documented by three separate psychologists across the three year span… in two days.

That’s it, in two days she completely recovered the 15-year-old child from three years of documented child psychological abuse.

Two days is all it took. That is drop-dead amazing, there is NO psychotherapy for anything that fixes anything in two days, are you kidding me? That is amazing – stunningly amazing.

In psychotherapy we talk in weeks or months, not days, and certainly not days to a full and complete recovery – of anything.

It’s because what she does is not psychotherapy. Dorcy uses a different approach, the High Road workshop uses a different change-agent approach to recovery.

It’s simple, it’s elegant, it’s way-way effective – look at that rapid-rise in the B phase over just two days, from 1s and 2s (awful) right before the workshop, to 5s and 6s (wonderful) by the end of two days… two days – of her typical 4-day workshop.

Wrap your head around that for added amazement. Dorcy is so exceptionally talented at recovering children and families that she could adapt her typical 4-day workshop to get a recovery of normal-range bonding and functioning in two days when she needs to… a recovery that remained stable for a full week after the workshop with no additional support while I was away in the Netherlands and before I could start my Second A phase follow-up therapy.

Dr. Childress is Amazing

That’s the second amazing thing… me. My data is a sleeper amazing thing but boy is it amazing. It’s in those 12 circled numbers at different points on the wiggly-wiggly lines.

Blue is the attachment system. Gold is emotional regulation. Silver is mood and arousal: Affection (Aff), Cooperation (Co), and Social Involvement (SI). The Parent Child Relationship Rating Scale (Childress, 2015) is an amazing outcome measure (three amazing things).

Look how Blue and Gold were out-of-synch at the start, then look how in-synch they are after my first therapy session at (5). I entrained the emotional regulation networks to the attachment system in my first session – that is amazing – and the data shows it – that is amazing data.

I’m in the child’s brain working the child’s neurological networks. I have something to say about each of those 12 circled numbers. I know exactly what I’m doing, and I can explain it in detail.

Did I want the blue and gold lines to synchronize from my intervention in the first session? Yes, I wanted to entrain the emotional regulation networks with the attachment networks, with attachment guiding emotional regulation.

The only thing I didn’t know at the time was how exquisitely sensitive the Parent-Child Relationship Rating Scale is to the functioning of the various brain systems that it would show my work. I crafted an incredibly wonderful outcome measure in the PC-RRS.

My work ripples across days in the networks of the person’s brain – and weeks, sometimes months. Typically not years, not in just one session. To do things that would ripple for years would take at least three sessions, and the context would need to be right.

The key mid-points in the data set are (6) and (7), these points are two and three days respectively after my session at data point (5). First, right before the three-system integration, there’s that beautiful V-drop of all three systems into a consolidation point at (6), then a bounce-back into an absolutely perfectly amazing three-system integration point at (7).

That’s about as good as it gets. There’s your standard, therapists of the future – match that V-drop and three system integration in the attachment system, emotional regulation networks, and mood & arousal networks.

Then, after the three-system integration, there is a perfect synchronous entrainment of the emotional regulation networks to the attachment networks, with attachment over (guiding) emotional regulation… all before the second session. How did I do that?

These are daily ratings from the targeted-mom. Targeted parents have zero reason to under-report symptoms. If there’s a problem, they want to fix it so they’ll say there’s a problem.

She was rating 3-4-5s normal-range, even into 6s and 7s wonderful-range sometimes. The 15-year old young man only dropped to 2 twice, once at data point (3) and once at (11). Look what happened after the two data-points because the two 2-ratings are different from one another.

The first 2-drop at (3) was before I began my work at (5). The second 2-drop at (11) was because of a thing I gave him to think about in our second therapy session at (10).

That first 2-drop at (3), and the subsequent recovery and stabilization, is entirely on Dorcy’s High Road workshop – I hadn’t started my therapy work until (5). They had a problem and recovered even before I started my work. Dorcy got a full, complete, and stable recovery of the parent-child attachment bond… in just two days.

I saw that the emotional regulation networks (gold) were not entrained on the attachment networks (blue) so I did something in my first treatment session to fix that.

That’s what occurred at the three-system integration point at (7) – which had been preceded by a nice consolidation V at (6). Those two, the V-drop at (6) and the bounce-back at (7), were the entrainment of emotional regulation networks on the attachment networks.

I did something in session one that rippled in the child’s brain networks for days – changing things – integrating things, until it all came together at (7), and the emotional regulation networks became perfectly entrained on the attachment networks, with attachment higher (guiding emotional responding).

That’s a perfect entrainment of emotional regulation and attachment after (7). The only reason it separated at (11) is because I did something in my next therapy session at (10) – i gave him something to consider, not overtly, just in his networks.

He figured it out, which is the way-big bounce-back that followed.

Replicate the Single-Case Research

I can tell you what is happening in the child’s brain at all 12 circled numbers. You’re just not curious yet. I’ll wait.

You don’t even appreciate the implications of the dramatic B phase recovery achieved by the High Road workshop. Stunningly amazing – yet entirely ignored by all the mental health people out there.

That’s pretty amazing too. I’ll be talking about the lack of motivation once we get this pathology fixed. It’s a motivational pathology, and it has a social-distribution feature.

A single-case ABA is research-based proof that the intervention is effective. The only methodological problem with the single-case design is it’s only one child. Will it work with another child or is it something unique about this particular child?

So do it again – replicate the research. On any High Road workshop, continue to collect the Parent-Child Relationship Rating Scale (Childress, 2015) to complete the ABA design.

Dorcy collects her High Road data on every workshop. Just collect the follow-up data to see what happens after the workshop ends. Does the child regress back to 1s and 2s once the workshop ends? Or is the recovery she achieves to a normal-range relationship and normal-range functioning (3-4-5) stably maintained following the High Road workshop?

Collect the data and find out – each time. That’s the advantage of a single-case research design… it has clinical application. A single-case ABAB research design applied to clinical practice is considered the highest caliber of clinical care.

It combines an empirical research study with clinical care to prove – prove – that the treatment intervention is effective in resolving the problem each time – with that specific case. That is the highest quality of clinical care, to document with data the treatment’s success.

Amazing Data – Amazing Truth

The High Road single-case ABA is amazing data. I’ve worked major NIMH research, I was in charge of all-things data at Keith Neuchterlein’s NIMH research at UCLA. I’ve worked with Jim Swanson’s MTA team at UCI. I know research, I know data.

The High Road single-case ABA clinical research is amazing. It will unfold in its amazing in layers of comprehension.

Everyone fights about everything over here. Currently Dr. Childress is alone. The pathogen wants to keep Dr. Childress and AB-PA hidden so no one knows. That won’t last. The fighting surrounding me will subside as the pathogen’s lies fall away and the truth remains.

An amazing truth. First… there’s the amazing truth of Dorcy Pruter and the High Road workshop. Then there’s the amazing truth of 12 circled numbers in the therapy of Dr. Childress.

Then there’s the amazing truth of the sensitivity and wonderfulness of the Parent-Child Relationship Rating scale as an outcome measure.

Then comes the amazing truth of AB-PA – the Diagnostic Checklist for Pathogenic Parenting and the Parenting Practices Rating Scale – that provide a standardized, reliable, and valid assessment protocol for the pathology in the family courts.

Conduct the Research – Be Amazed

Where’s the research on the accuracy of the predictions made by AB-PA? Do the research and you’ll have it.

I’m a clinical psychologist in private practice – I know research but I don’t do research, that’s not what clinical psychologists do. We do assessment, diagnosis, and treatment – others do the research.

I gave you research anyway just to get you started – and research is not even what I do. I’ve lapped the forensic psychologists and PAS experts several times. They haven’t even made it to the first turn and I’m already over the finish line – it is solved. That’s the truth.

You just need to do it.

You want research from a clinical psychologist? I’ve given you the High Road single-case ABA as proof – there’s the research – we presented the High Road single-case ABA directly to the American Psychological Association in 2019 in a peer-reviewed paper, peer-reviewed by the president of Division 24 Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.

I’m a clinical psychologist in private practice. I’ve done my job. I’ve given you the diagnosis worked out in detail, and I’ve given you the diagnostic assessment protocol. I’ve even identified the required treatment for you – court-adapted DBT (Linehan) informed by the attachment treatment of EFT (Johnson).

I can do things you cannot yet comprehend – like synchronize your brain networks… just by interacting with you… and you have no idea I’m doing it when I’m doing it (am I doing it now?), just like for days after my therapy the child rippled the impact until the three-system consolidation at point (7)… three days later.

My work ripples within and across time. I’ve been telling you, I work about three to five years ahead, sometimes more, sometimes less. It depends on what’s needed.

I’ve fixed the systems dysfunction here in the family courts and within professional psychology. I’ve solved the pathology in the family courts and fixed it. You just don’t listen – yet.

The moment, the very instant the paradigm shift to AB-PA occurs… the pathology is solved for everyone everywhere.

Try it.

The Paradigm Shift to AB-PA

Start by using the Diagnostic Checklist for Pathogenic Parenting – start by simply collecting that for all children in family court conflict. You don’t need to do anything else… just routinely and consistently collect the three Diagnostic Indicators of AB-PA for all cases of court-involved family conflict… and see what happens as a result.

Things will change… and everything will be fixed. Watch. Try it. You’ll see. Everyone here fights-and-fights about everything. Once the fighting ends and you’re open to a solution… then solve it.

AB-PA as described in Foundations (Childress, 2015) is a 100% true and accurate description of the pathology. What’s true is true. None of AB-PA is Dr. Childress, that’s why it’s true.

You all want to fight about everything. If you want to fight about AB-PA, take it up with Bowlby, Minuchin, Beck, van der Kolk, Tronick, Kohut, and the DSM-5. Because that’s what AB-PA is, I’m not here.

All of AB-PA is simply the established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline applied. If you don’t agree with the established knowledge of professional psychology, take it up with the established knowledge.

There are amazing things that unfold in layers once someone has the curiosity to look. No one has the curiosity to look yet. They don’t want to solve anything yet. When they want to solve things, then they’ll look, and the solution will unfold once they are motivated.

It’s a motivational pathology – the attachment system is a motivational system – attachment pathology is a pathology in motivation. AB-PA is an indicator.

They are not motivated yet.

Be amazed, because there’s some amazing things. The pathogen fights and fights to hide. We will be calming the fight-and-fight, and when it calms… things will happen.

Looking Backwards in Time

Once this is done and you’re looking back from everything solved to where we were… you will see the path we took. You will be amazed, you had no idea what was happening.

I did. Storms come. Storms go. I’m the bringer of storms that come, and when the storm leaves you will have a solution. A solution to what? To everything you need a solution for.

It will be an unfolding process. Some things will remain dormant beneath the surface of your possible awareness until the proper context arrives to release them, then they will ripple out in their impact.

The entry point for the amazement is the High Road single-clase ABA data. Replicate the ABAB single-case research with each High Road workshop. Personally, I’d recommend you do it formally as part of a research collaboration with CCPI. Collaborate with CCPI and do the research.

Dorcy’s a businesswoman and family coach, not a university researcher person. Dr. Childress is a clinical psychologist, not a university researcher investigator.

The university research investigators need to conduct research on the High Road workshop. The university research investigators need to conduct research on the diagnostic model of AB-PA.

Collect the data. If you simply collect the symptom data using the Diagnostic Checklist for Pathogenic Parenting, the pathology in the family courts will be solved. Watch.

Just do it and be amazed. Collect the data from the Diagnostic Checklist for Pathogenic Parenting routinely for each child in family court custody conflict… and everything will unfold into solutions.

Don’t believe me? Try it. Just try it. There is no harm in just collecting the data in every case. See what happens when you do this, when you simply collect the data from the Diagnostic Checklist for Pathogenic Parenting (Childress, 2015).

You’ll be amazed at what happens. Do it and then look at the result to see what happens.

Try it. See what happens. You’ll be amazed.

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

Craig Childress ; Reality Check

I first encountered the “five-factor” model of PAS this past year in a forensic child custody report. The forensic evaluator cited the “five-factor” model of PAS to assert that there was NO “parental alienation” because the child did not meet criteria for the “five-factor” model of PAS.

By all indications of the symptom reporting, however, the child did meet diagnostic criteria for AB-PA. So now I must review and critique the “five-factor model” of PAS proposed by Dr. Bernet in order to protect the child from continuing child psychological abuse by the pathogenic parent.

I want everyone to let that fully sink in. The forensic evaluator cited the five-factor model of Dr. Bernet as the reason there was NO “parental alienation” and the child should therefore be left in the sole-custody care of the pathological and psychologically abusive parent.

I am simply second-opinion review on that matter. I am simply telling you the current status of the field.

The reason I put the term “five-factors” in quotes is because I have yet to see the factor analysis that supports that there are five factors to PAS. If there is no factor analysis, then to claim there is a five-factor model is professionally deceptive.

The assumption in research is that the term “factors” applies to a factor analysis conducted on a data set. While the term “factor” has a more loosely defined meaning in the general population, professional reporting in the journal literature is expected to be more precise in its use of research-related language.

First thing to note – before anything – is that Dr. Bernet has yet to demonstrate that there is a pathology called “parental alienation” with one-, two-, three-, four-, or eleven proposed components to PAS. There is no PAS – so – there are no factors, however many, to a non-existent thing.

He starts with an assumption that there is a thing PAS. That is not a valid assumption. He needs to prove this assumption that there IS a PAS before he can begin to describe the features for PAS.

If Dr. Bernet proposes that his recent “five-factor” model of PAS proves there is a pathology of PAS, he is wrong. A DSM-5 diagnosis for PAS proves there is a pathology of PAS. Once he proves there IS a PAS, then he can begin to describe its features.

PAS was completely and fully rejected as a diagnostic construct by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013. PAS is NOT a diagnostic pathology. Yet Dr. Bernet has difficulty adjusting to that reality. He believes he knows more about pathology and its diagnosis than the American Psychiatric Association, and he continues to believe he is ‘discovering’ a new pathology when the American Psychiatric Association has said that is not true.

Note that these articles from 2020-2022 are relatively recent. The ripples have yet to ripple. Fist comes the rock, then the splash, then the ripples.

From Bernet (2020): “Although the phenomenon that we know as parental alienation (PA) had been described in the mental health and legal literature for many years, it was eventually given a name-parental alienation syndrome (PAS)-by Richard Gardner in 1985 (Gardner, 1985). As time went on, most writers abandoned the use of the word syndrome and simply referred to this mental condition as parental alienation. For purposes of this article, PAS and PA are synonymous.”

He simply acts as if everyone now simply accepts the pathology of “parental alienation” as described by Gardner’s PAS model. Dr. Bernet fully and completely disregards that PAS was fully and completely rejected as a diagnostic pathology by the American Psychiatric Association 2013.

Denial is a symptom of thought disorder.

Dr. Bernet went into a time-portal in 1985 and has failed to come out. He remains in 1985. In 2022 he is still making the exact same proposal for Gardner’s PAS. This “five-factor” model is not a new thing – it is PAS from 1985.

Just so everyone is clear – there is NOTHING new in a “five-factor” model of Parental Alienation Syndrome. That construct has been fully and completely rejected by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013 after a full and complete review.

Dr. Bernet has yet to demonstrate there is even a construct of “parental alienation” that has one factor. I will await his presentation of the data set for the factor analysis that identified five factors to the non-existent pathology of PAS.

Dr. Bernet is fully and completely stuck in a time-warp to 1985. Time has not advanced beyond that point for him, and he cannot comprehend or integrate that the construct of PAS has been rejected… and is entirely unnecessary.

To be clear… who is Dr. Bernet? A retired MD psychiatrist. That is it. Just one person, a retired MD psychiatrist who’s obsessed with Gardner’s PAS and cannot let go.

To be clear… who is Richard Gardner? One MD psychiatrist in the 1980s working in the family courts. That’s it. Gardner skipped the step of diagnosis, and instead he led everyone astray by making a new-pathology proposal.

Gardner was wrong. There is no new pathology. Gardner was just a poor diagnostician.

The pathology in the family courts is entirely – entirely – solvable without the construct of “parental alienation” – and, in fact, the solution requires an end to the use of that construct and a return to the established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline, and poof, everything is solved immediately.

We can only achieve competence by establishing standards of practice. We cannot establish standards of practice requiring everyone to apply the five-factor model of PAS proposed by Bernet.

But that is Dr. Bernet’s expectation, that everyone do what Dr. Bernet tells them to do – not what the American Psychiatric Association says. Not what the ethical Standards of the American Psychological Association says.

Don’t apply Bowlby, don’t apply Minuchin, don’t apply Beck, don’t apply van der Kolk, don’t apply Tronick, don’t apply van der Kolk, don’t apply Kohut, don’t apply the DSM-5 – INSTEAD – apply Bernet.

That’s Dr. Bernet’s expectation in proposing a “five-factor” model of PAS. That was his life’s work. He is a retired MD psychiatrist leading a “movement” for Gardner’s PAS. He was crushed when the American Psychiatric Association said no.

He can’t let go. It’s is legacy. He must fight for his legacy, he can’t fade away into irrelevance. So he simply disregards the decisions of the American Psychiatric Association – they’re wrong – Bill’s right.

He needs to be right. He must be right.

So just for starters, I’m not even off of page 1 in my line-by-line peer-review of the “five-factor” model of PAS proposed by Dr. Bernet and the PAS “experts” and it is clear there is nothing new in their proposal – it’s just Gardner’s PAS… one more time.

From Bernet (2020): “For purposes of this article, PAS and PA are synonymous.”

See. It’s just PAS with lipstick.

I look forward to a more complete presentation of the factor analysis that supports a “five-factor” model of Carrot Rejection Syndrome.

This could have been avoided, but the pathogen is self-destructive. It wants to be seen. It wants us to see and heal it, but it cannot reveal its inadequacy, because once we see how damaged and inadequate they are we’ll reject them.

And their fears are true. Once we see the inadequacy of PAS, we’ll reject it.

I don’t care how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. We need to protect these children and their parents – today – and “parental alienation” will never do that.

This is not personal. It is professional. This pathology has a social distribution feature – it is the only shared pathology. The Garnderian PAS “experts” are a symptom.

Gardnerian PAS was created by the pathogen as bait to lure the targeted parents into endless unproductive fighting in the courts rather than getting an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan from healthcare.

They are a symptom feature. Some things can only be seen looking the other direction in time, from the future to the past. Are we ever going to return to 1985 to adopt PAS as the solution?

No.

It’s time to move on from one retired MD psychiatrist struggling to hold onto meaning in a failed career. History is written by the victors. That won’t be PAS.

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

Family Courts : Craig Childress PsyD

There’s a problem in the family courts. Professional psychology is not meeting the needs of the families, the children, or the court.

We need a solution. What’s the solution?

We need an established diagnostic assessment protocol that everyone agrees on. We need a clearly established and agreed-to treatment protocol that fixes the pathology.

We need to stop the fight-and-fight surrounding the child, and we need to fix things.

How? How do we do that? What’s the solution?

We need turn to our universities to develop the diagnostic assessment and treatment protocols to fix things in the family courts, along with the supporting legal arguments needed to obtain the necessary diagnostic assessment and treatment.

Stop fighting about it. Put it to a top-university to develop the diagnostic assessment and treatment protocols for the attachment-related child pathology in the family courts.

Dr. Childress and Dorcy Pruter can provide the structure for an AB-PA/High Road pilot program for the family courts. What’s needed is university involvement for the evaluation research, i.e., to provide the organizational guidance in developing the diagnostic assessment and treatment protocols, and with developing the legal arguments of support.

We need to stop the fighting.

I’ll serve as the Clinical Director for an AB-PA/High Road pilot program for the family courts, and Dorcy Pruter will be a contracted consultant for recovery of children from complex trauma and child abuse using the High Road workshop.

We need university involvement for the organization and evaluation research. The university will need funding for their role in organization and research. They like that, they like receiving money to do research on something.

The best funding source would be state legislatures seeking a solution to the problems and endless fighting in the family courts. Put your best universities on it. Which university would serve as the Principle Investigator for an AB-PA/High Road pilot program for the family courts?

In California, I’d give the PI to Stanford’s Forensic Psychiatry Department. Because it’s CA, I’d also fund a second site location at UCLA-Pepperdine-Alliant universities in Southern California for geographic balance and for different focal interests.

My proposal would be to have Stanford Forensic Psychiatry be the PI organizing the multi-site research, with Stanford Forensic Psychiatry taking the leadership in developing the diagnostic assessment protocol (with involvement from a diagnostic team at UCLA in So Cal).

The So Cal site would, in-turn, focus more on developing the treatment protocol, i.e., court adapted Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT; Linehan), informed by court adapted Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT; Johnson). Susan Johnson has an academic appointment to Alliant University in San Diego.

I would anticipate that Sue Johnson’s International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy in San Diego would take leadership in developing the treatment protocol for the family courts at the So Cal site collaboration.

University researchers like receiving money to do things. So let’s bring them here to develop the diagnostic assessment and treatment protocols for the family courts – and the legal support arguments for obtaining the diagnostic assessment and treatment.

In a California AB-PA/High Road pilot program, the So Cal location with the EFT Center for Excellence could organize the integration of DBT adapted to the family courts, with the attachment therapy of EFT, coordinating with the diagnostic team at Stanford through the diagnostic team at UCLA.

Both Stanford and UCLA have world-class law schools. So just as both Stanford and UCLA lead two sites in the development of the diagnostic assessment and treatment protocols for the family courts, the law schools for those two universities could develop the supporting legal arguments for the diagnostic and treatment approach.

That’s what I’d recommend for a California solution. I would anticipate that this solution then spreads out to other locations nationally and internationally (i.e., the CA-Stanford diagnostic model). In a different state I might recommend only a single university with one big-city and one small-city site coordinated by one university.

In a two university approach in two different locations, one site leads development of the diagnostic protocol. One site leads development of the treatment protocol, i.e., court-adapted DBT informed by the attachment therapy of EFT.

Dr. Childress and Dorcy Pruter can provide the organizing structure through an AB-PA/High Road pilot program for the family courts – we need university involvement for the evaluation research.

When we were in the Netherlands in 2019, we proposed an AB-PA/High Road pilot program when we met with the Dutch Ministry of Justice, with Maastricht University for the evaluation research.

I’d propose an AB-PA/High Road pilot program for Canada, and for any state in the U.S. Pick your top universities and fund them to develop the diagnostic assessment and treatment protocols for the family courts.

Once they are developed… we can all use them everywhere.

It’s a win-win-win-win-win all the way around. Families win. Children win. Courts win. Everyone who wants to solve the pathology in the family courts, wins. Everyone wins – and we have a solution that everyone agrees to.

We stop the fighting. We now have a path to follow.

I would anticipate a 2-year grant for an AB-PA/High Road pilot program for the family courts, but only one year of that is active research. The first six months would be preparation, the last six months would be data analysis and writing up the results. In the middle would be a year of an active AB-PA/High Road pilot program for the family courts.

We’d need about 10 mental health therapists and 10 family law (amicus) attorneys at each site location, and then access to a court referred population based on the entry criteria into the AB-PA/High Road pilot program for the family courts. I’d like about 20 families, but that’s up to the research PI.

The actual program is not all that expensive. The most expensive part is likely to be the university teams and involvement.

I’d serve as the Clinical Director for an AB-PA/High Road pilot program for the family courts. I’ve been Clinical Director for two other projects, one a FEMA-DOJ project to develop a diagnostic assessment protocol for a court-involved child pathology. The other was Clinical Director for an assessment and treatment center for children in foster care, i.e., child abuse and attachment pathology.

I have background clinical expertise in assessing, diagnosing, and treating all four types of child abuse – and child abuse is the anticipated diagnosis, the only question is… which parent?

I’ve worked on major NIMH research projects with top university investigators. AB-PA is my work from Foundations. I can develop and implement an AB-PA/High Road pilot program for the family courts that can serve as the framework for developing the diagnostic assessment and treatment protocols.

Dorcy Pruter would serve as Consultant in recovery from complex trauma and child psychological abuse. The High Road workshop would be delivered at the mid-point between diagnosis and treatment. Once the diagnosis of Child Psychological Abuse (DSM-5 V995.51) is made and confirmed, the transition to the treatment phase would be through the High Road workshop into the follow-up maintenance care therapy of court-adapted DBT-EFT.

I anticipate Dorcy would do half of the High Road workshops, and that she’d train the university clinical research team in the High Road protocol, and they’d do half. That allows us to compare and replicate across workshop providers, with the workshop delivered to a high level of fidelity to the protocol developed by Ms. Pruter.

In this way, Ms. Pruter transfers the intellectual property of her approach that she developed with the High Road workshop into the healthcare and educational sectors for further research and development of the model.

I would encourage the applied expansion of Ms. Pruter’s approach into other trauma recovery domains like substance abuse recovery and reducing prison recidivism.

Ms. Pruter would retain her rights to the High Road trademark, but by training a university clinical research team she would also lose her intellectual property rights to the general approach. Following the AB-PA/High Road pilot program for the family courts, the involved university would be free to develop its own versions based on the principles, expanding them, modifying, testing, researching them in any way they’d like.

In return for her intellectual property transfer to the university, Ms. Pruter becomes the recognized goddess of trauma recovery. That is a status she already occupies, it’s just the formal recognition part that’s the addition.

The knowledge and skills of Dorcy Pruter are too valuable to be doing High Road workshops, as valuable as those are. She can train others to conduct the workshops to recover the kids, but it needs to be done properly.

There needs to be university involvement for the evaluation research.

You don’t think Dorcy’s the real deal? Put Dorcy to the test, ask her to recover the children you send to her based on an AB-PA diagnostic protocol. Have you ever seen My Cousin Vinny? You wanna put Dorcy to the test? Paaaleeese, be my guest.

Dorcy knows this pathology better than anyone on this planet. She’s seen it and worked it and recovered it up-close and personal for years-and-years.

I know this pathology better than anyone on this planet. Of course I do. I’m the best because that’s what my kids need. Dorcy Pruter is my first referral. Anytime Ms. Pruter and I are on a matter together, I consider her part of my treatment team in charge of recovery.

I listen to my treatment team. We work together toward a common goal – treatment – fixing things.

What things? Whatever things you have that need fixing? Diagnosis guides treatment. You tell me the diagnosis, I’ll tell you the treatment plan – for anything.

That’s how healthcare works.

Do you want to solve things in the family courts? Bring in your top universities and ask them to develop the diagnostic assessment and treatment protocols. Dr. Childress and Dorcy Pruter can provide the structure of an AB-PA/High Road pilot program for the family courts on which to layer the university evaluation research.

That’s the solution. I recommend the money come from a state legislature who wants to solve the pathology in the family courts. Give the issue to your best universities and let them solve it.

What are the top universities in Pennsylvania? Does Denver have any universities? How about the University of British Columbia?

Dr. Childress can bring a solution. Dorcy Pruter can bring a solution. We just need the invitation to bring a solution to the family courts. Don’t believe us? We’d like university involvement for the evaluation research please.

Put Dr. Childress & Dorcy Pruter to the test. Thank you, that’s much appreciated. I can identify it and Dorcy can fix it. So let’s do that, let’s fix it.

That’s what I think.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857