PAS Professionals

There is a Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) symposium coming up in Canada. Please read about it. PAS is like, hot shit right now because it is a "diagnosis" that can fit any mold/range of "symptoms."


There is an ever-expanding list of "professionals," mainly from the field of psychology, that purport themselves to be experts on this "disease."

In short, it basically goes like this:

• Mom and Dad are separated/divorced/never married
• Mom has always been primary caretaker and continues as such during separation
• Mom finds evidence of sexual abuse of the children, or mom and children may have been victims of domestic violence
• Dad suddenly wants to exercise his "rights" to the children, more "rights" than he ever had at any other time
• Mom does not allow this, reports abuse to authorities
• Abuse is founded, or unsubstantiated, nevertheless irrelevant
• Mom either limits contact with father, or denies contact increasingly in attempts to keep herself and the children safe
• Mom is accused of being a parental alienator by a team of PAS Professionals/Court Whores
  
• Father wins custody

Okay, now that I've knocked that out of the way, what I want to know is, how many of these PAS Professionals, are educated in sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, domestic violence/intimate partner violence, child psychology, rape trauma, etc?

Why? Because it is obvious that they are one in the same. PAS has arisen as a defeat for accusations of abuse. Period. I mean, think about it. If you are accused of a crime (and you did it) but you want to profess your innocence of said crime, what would be your best tactic?:

1. To say that the other person is lying
2. To say that the other person is actually the perpetrator and you are the victim

This shifts the focus (thinking error) from you (the real perp) to the other (the real victim).

I mean, shit, this is perfect.

How do these PAS professionals distinguish between real and false accusations of abuse if they are not DUALLY educated in the discipline of abuse and perhaps, child psychology? How can they KNOW?

They can't--because in order to be a PAS Professional, you must be under the assumption that the abuse is FALSE, from the beginning.

Do you want your child going to a counselor/therapist who assumes that your child is lying about the abuse? Then you'd better read the list on the website to which I first linked...

In the words of Tana Dineen:

When I use the term "psychologist," I often use it with a small "p" referring to all of these people who sell expert opinions, market their workshops about parenting or family relations, diagnose/label people as suffering from psychological injuries, offer parental support and do counseling and psychotherapy. When I use the term, "The Psychology Industry," it's the business, the packaging, promotion and sale of these services that I'm talking about.