Parental Alienation and Factitious Disorder by Proxy Beyond DSM-5: Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses

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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Diagnostic Confusion and Delays That Endanger Children
	Inherent Challenges Describing Novel Insights and Phenomena
	Dangers, IMDs, Case Examples, and Patterned Research
2 Sparks That Ignite Fires, Symphonic Orchestras, and Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses
	Meanderings and Systemic Thought
	Stress, the Progenitor of Differentiation
	Reality and Causality
		Metaphors That Offer a Different Vantage Point
	Fire and FDBP
	Orchestras, Symphonies, and PA
	Neutrality, Amid Dynamics, and Dimensions
	Perhaps, Taking a Step Back, It’s Not So Complex After All
		Case Example: Factitious Disorder by Proxy
		Case Example: Parental Alienation
3 “’Tis but thy name that is my enemy”
	Munchausen Syndrome and Factitious Disorder by Proxy
	Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA)
	Potential Precursors for Proliferation
	AIBP, CAMS, CFIC, FII, MCA, and PCF
	Naming Conventions and the Platypus Paradox
	Parent Alienation, Problems With Clarity, and Support
	Early Descriptions
		Alignment
		Parental Alienation Syndrome
		Alienated Children
	Contemporary Literature, Parental Alienation, and the DSM-­5
		Debating Parental Alienation
	DSM-5 and Where the Pathological Dynamic Lies
	IMD and Organizing Principles
4 Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses
	Punctuated Steady States and the Moment an IMD Is Realized
	The DSM-5, Real Diagnoses, and the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders
	An IMD, Not a Relational Problem or a Syndrome
	Scientific Certainty: Daubert vs. Merrill Dow Chemical (1993)
		Courts and PA
	Proofs: Characteristics, Interrelationships, and Dimensions
	Splitting and/or Triangulation and IMDS
	Proposition: FDBP and PA Are Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses
	Practical Examples of IMDs, FDBP, and PA
	Variable Exclusion and Inclusion Criteria
		Weighing IMD Prospects
	Systems, Systems, Systems, a Systemic Diagnosis, and Other Diagnoses
		Diagnosing IMDs: Suspicion and Further Study
	IMDs and Exemplars
5 Factitious Disorder by Proxy and Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses
	Revisiting “The Complaint”
	Parental and Systemic Background in FDBP
	Personality Traits and Pathological Lying
	A List of Characteristics Associated With Factitious Disorder by Proxy
	Tabled Variable Criteria and Redistributing Table 1 From 2009
	Revisiting FDBP as an IMD and Building Tables
	An Individual Diagnosis, a Dynamic Diagnosis, or Both, Revisited
	The Topic of Motivation and FDBP
		Revisiting the List of Characteristics Associated With Factitious Disorder by Proxy
	IMD Implications for FDBP
6 Parental Alienation as an Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnosis
	The Psychological Surround of PA: Background, Percentages, and Environment
		Percentages
		Environmental Forces
	Individuals, Behaviors, and Experiences
		Parent Characteristics
		Parent Personality Traits
		Rejected Parents
		Gender Considerations
		Parent Alienating Behaviors
	Child Characteristics
		Age Matters
		A Child’s Expression of Alienating Behaviors
		Not All Transformations Are Good: Identification With the Aggressor, Internalized Oppression, and PA
	Triage, Agreement, and What’s in a Name
		The Psychological Surround and the Optional Family–Legal System Subdynamic
	Counter Productive Parenting, Parental Denigration, Sabotage, and Estrangement
		Counter Productive Parenting and Parental Sabotage
		Parental Estrangement
	What Is, and What Is Not, Parental Alienation?
		Psychological Abuse
		Discerning and Weighing PA
	Parental Alienation as an IMD
7 Parallel Characteristics and Variables: Factitious Disorder by Proxy and Parental Alienation
	Stress, History, and the Nexus of an IMD in Time
	Three Forms of Stress and IMDs
	Variable Responses to Stress: Exclusion and Inclusion Criteria
	Family Systems in IMDs
	Baumrind’s and Olson’s Models
	Larger Systems and IMDs
		The Child(ren)
	IMD Symbolic Language and a Common Representation System
8 Interventions, Motions, Policies, Procedures, and Potential IMDs
	How to Intervene and the Moral Courage to Intervene
	Other Considerations and Mild IMDs
	FDBP Intervention and Reunification
	PA Intervention and Reunification
	A Model for Reunification in PA
		Introduction
	Procedures, Policy, and the Best Interests—Health and Welfare of Children
	Future IMDs
		Undue Influence
		Intergenerational Trauma
References
Appendix A Key IMD Symbolic Language
Index