Category Archives: Overcoming parental alienation

Waiting for a Child’s Return: False Hope or Realistic Possibility?

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

A comment to one of my Facebook posts expressed pessimism regarding reconciliation with estranged children: “How to deal with it? Say goodbye and move on with your life! You will never get your children back…They are gone both physically and … Continue reading →

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Underground Love

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

♪ Baby, baby/Where did our love go? ♪ One of the most disheartening and confounding aspects of parental alienation is the evaporation of your child’s lifelong love for you, sometimes in the blink of an eye. In most cases the … Continue reading →

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Ten Parental Alienation Fallacies

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

I am pleased to announce my new paper, published online earlier this month by the American Psychological Association (APA). Ten Parental Alienation Fallacies That Compromise Decisions in Court and in Therapy passed a peer review process and was published in … Continue reading →

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What Courts Can Do About Parental Alienation

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

Last February I was honored to be invited to Victoria, British Columbia to film segments as a guest on the leading talk show produced in Canada: Family Matters. The show is hosted by Justice Harvey Brownstone who is actually a … Continue reading →

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Reaching Out to Young Adults After Years of Estrangement

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

A therapist’s advice column instructed alienated parents to take the type of proactive stance that I advocate in Divorce Poison to prevent and overcome parental alienation, and concluded by urging rejecting parents to persist in efforts to resolve the problem … Continue reading →

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Alienated Trekkies: Star Trek Fans Who Hate (Or Are On Their Way To Hating) Their Parents

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

Resources for parents whose children are Star Trek fans and are alienated or at risk for becoming alienated from a parent. Stories, fairy tales, and fables are the age-old ways of communicating life’s important lessons to children. Movies and television … Continue reading →

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Managing Severe Cases of Parental Alienation

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

I am pleased to announce my new article: Managing Severe Cases of Parental Alienation. Published by the State Bar of Texas, it includes never-before-published material previously available only through my trial testimony and consultation. Some of the highlights: • 3 … Continue reading →

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State of Plutoverse – 2011

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

In case you wondered, other projects have pushed my annual review of the year to the side for a couple of months. File this column under: better late than never. Pluto Transforms Lives Across Six Continents 2011 saw the spread … Continue reading →

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Divorce Poison (2nd ed) Now in iTunes and Kindle

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

The wait is over. Through some gap between my publisher and the Kindle folks, the downloadable edition of the revised edition of Divorce Poison never saw the light of digital day in 2010. Last April, when a reader expressed her … Continue reading →

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College Helps Renew Parent-Child Ties

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

Some time during my first semester in the men’s dormitory at Cornell (in those days co-ed dorms were mere fantasies), the guys on the floor began talking about their parents. The more we talked, the more we came to value … Continue reading →

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