Parental alienation syndrome

Sometimes a child becomes emotionally estranged from one parent, with the encouragement of the other parent. Since the 1980s, some have suggested this is a psychiatric disorder, called ‘parental alienation syndrome’, a label that tends to pathologize unhappy families. The actor Alec Baldwin claimed it applied to his relationship with his and Kim Basinger’s daughter.

The American Psychiatric Association does not recognise ‘parental alienation syndrome’

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