Canadian Expert Recognizes PAS Centers as Quackery

      The recent Canadian court decision by Justice Faye McWatt legally kidnapped children from their mother, because the father demanded this and spent a fortune attacking the mother for years in court inflicting ongoing legal abuse in addition to the controlling, domineering, and harassing way he interacted with the mother and children. The father, aided and abetted by two lawyers, Harold Niman and Donna Wowk, a biased Guardian Ad Litem, Elizabeth McCarty, who refused to listen to the wishes of the children she was supposed to be representing, and colluding Parental Alienation Syndrome accusing professionals, including Dr. Barbara Fidler, all ganged up on this mother who was doing nothing more than being a good mom. It was David versus Goliath. There were apparently reasons that the mother and children did not enjoy interacting with this man who obviously reigned down terror on them. The daughters must be experiencing their worst nightmares coming true being forcibly taken away from the parent they love, who obviously cares about their happiness and well-being. Anyone who thinks being captured and taken to some experimental quack treatment center like a prisoner against their will is a good thing ought to imagine themselves in the place of these children.

     Anyone who thinks programming centers are a good thing ought to watch some of the classic dystopian movies such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and George Orwell’s 1984. Imagine, if you don’t think and act the way that someone else wants you to, you could be forcibly taken to a programming center and BRAINWASHED into changing your thinking. Maybe some of these quack doctors ought to be treated to a taste of their own medicine. Somehow, it would be unlikely that any person subjected to this treatment would ever find it to be a good thing, unless they somehow lost the inability to think for themselves. It is reminiscent of one of the worst psychological experiments ever conducted by Dr. Harry Harlow, who removed rhesus monkeys who had already bonded with their mothers and placed them in a stainless steel vertical chamber device alone with no contact in order to sever those bonds. Many of these monkeys came out of the chamber psychotic, and many did not recover.

     The following article started out good, but maybe the editor lost the nerve to forcefully criticize what is going on. There are still people out in the world that know that PAS is junk science, and that this rise of the psychologists should be something every person who enjoys free thought should recognize for the danger it is. The custody of these children was bought and sold by profiteering professionals using phony theories to justify their actions as being in the children’s best interest. The only interests being served are that of the father who now has total control over these children, intentionally ALIENATING them from their mother, and the money-hungry experimenting psychologists who want to try out their brainwashing techniques.

FAMILY COURT

Judges sending children to U.S. for quack therapy, expert charges

Centres aim to treat parental alienation

KIRK MAKIN

February 2, 2009

JUSTICE REPORTER

Parental alienation centres in the United States are using unproven “quackery” to deprogram children ordered into their care by well-meaning Canadian judges, a leading Ontario child psychologist has charged.

Peter Jaffe says the programs may even damage children by destroying overnight their primary support bulwark: the alienating parent whose care they have been under.

“It is not a good thing if a child has bonded to an alienating parent, but disrupting that child and pulling them away from whatever sense of security they have may end up being more harmful than good in the long run,” said Dr. Jaffe, a professor at the University of Western Ontario in London.

“When you’re going to provide a treatment, you have to know what the unattended consequences or side effects are,” he said. “You may be solving one problem but creating a whole host of new problems.”

The deprogramming issue erupted last week after a Toronto judge forcibly removed three girls from their mother and sent them for treatment to a U.S. centre in an undisclosed location. It was at least the third time that an Ontario judge has taken the extreme measure in the past year.

The parental alienation centres, which operate in relative secrecy, in part to avoid surprise visits by angry parents searching for children who have been seized, is to be debated at an Ontario Bar Association conference today.

Dr. Jaffe said the spate of judicial orders runs counter to a laudable trend of granting children more rights. “It really doesn’t matter whether you are sending them to a locked ward of a hospital somewhere in Pennsylvania or you are sending them to Disneyland, I think it’s a significant infringement on their rights to take a Canadian child and force them to enter a treatment program in the U.S.”

Sol Goldstein, a Toronto child psychiatrist familiar with the U.S. programs, said they typically devote four or five days to intensive discussion, visual presentations and “logic and kindness,” to prod alienated children into critical thinking. He said children also have opportunities to spend relaxed, recreational time with the parent from whom they are estranged.

“Nothing can change like that within a week,” Dr. Goldstein added. “It’s like doing major surgery. The follow-up is crucial.”

Donna Wowk, a Toronto family lawyer, agreed that while securing time away from the parent who caused the alienation “is critical” to successfully treating a child, relapses are a major risk. “You can have great counselling sessions, but as soon as they are back with the alienating parent, it’s all undone,” she said.

Toronto family lawyer Harold Niman, who represented a non-custodial parent whose children were recently sent to a U.S. parental alienation centre, conceded that much remains unknown about the treatment.

“There is no doubt this is uncharted territory,” he said. “To a certain extent, we don’t know where this is all going to lead, but I think it’s like chicken soup. It can’t hurt. It is something designed to be therapeutic for the children, and I can’t see how it could hurt.

“Part of what is going on is an effort to find a solution to a very difficult problem. We are talking about a very, very narrow group of parents and they are almost invariably dysfunctional. These are parents who are toxic people.”

Dr. Jaffe said that if the Ontario family court system were less dysfunctional, children at risk of being alienated from a parent would be identified and treated early.

“I’m not criticizing the judges,” he said. “I understand their degree of frustration. But these cases really are a monument to the failure of the system to intervene early.

“There are bits and pieces in place in Ontario, but nobody is really in charge of the system,” Dr. Jaffe said.

—End of Article—

In response to the comment in the article above by Howard Niman:

“It can’t hurt. It is something designed to be therapeutic for the children, and I can’t see how it could hurt.”

     How can it hurt? FYI-There have been cases where the children try to commit suicide because of this unethical PAS BS. From the article on this blog about the PAS Racket, one the of the children in that case attempted suicide and had to be hospitalized – Dalia Saffa Biller, Martha Jacobson, and Jan Faust in collusion with GAL, Vicki Plant, were involved in that case. In a Pennsylvania case, a boy named Nathan Grieco committed suicide by hanging after being repeatedly forced to visit his father, and being subjected to the horrible overall treatment that children that unethical psychologists subject children to when they claim parental alienation – Richard Gardner was the psychologist in that case. There are numerous cases were the children resort to self harm or other destructive behavior. In a Texas case, a child shot and killed his father when being subjected to forced visitation and unethical treatment by PAS accusing psychologists – Reena Sommer was involved in that case. Of course, these UNETHICAL psychologists who claim to be able to determine with 100% accuracy that it is the MOM who causes the child to feel the way they do as if they have a crystal ball. The fathers are exalted and the entire rest of the family is accused of lying. Just who do these crackpots think they are, that they decide who is being truthful. Amazing how entire families are accused of lying, even after the children are over 18, like Jennifer Collins, who repeatedly denounces this PAS garbage after her family was given asylum in the Netherlands. Her dad beat her mom, her brother, and herself, and there are medical records to prove it. Yet, the unethical evaluator, Susan DeVries, the colluding GAL, Mary Laughead, and Judge Charles A. Porter all deny the reality of the abuse. There are many more examples of cases in other blogs listed in the blogroll, and at Stop Family Violence. Also, checkout the very specious evaluations of  Dr. John Zervopoulos, who uses the same rhetoric in case after case to remove children from their mothers for profit with horrible results for the children.

     Someone please help these girls, and all the other children who might fall pray to this scam! There was another recent decision in Canada that took a boy away from his father and sent him to a US “reprogramming” center. Despite the pro-mom slant of this blog, no child should be taken away from a parent they are happy living with. If the boy was happy with his dad, why couldn’t he live with him? Likely the forced evaluations, forced therapies, and constant pressure put on these children makes them resent and dislike the non-custodial parent even more than if they were left alone to sort out their own feelings. These PAS Purveyors just enjoy fabricating phony syndromes to profiteer off kidnapping children from custodial parents. There will certainly be nothing good to come from this.

 

To read more on this subject, check out the following posts:

Canadian Judge Recognizes PAS Treatment as Quackery

Ethical Scientific Experts Denounce “PAS” Reprogramming

Doctor Who Intentionally Severs Bonds With Mothers Is a Monster

 

Maternal Deprivation Research

There have been numerous studies regarding Maternal Deprivation, with a large source of information coming from Bowlby, based on Spitz and Goldfarb, and also from unethical animal experimentation. Overwhelmingly, research shows that severing this natural bond between a mother and child causes severe emotional and behavioral problems, such as depression and psychosis. The phrase maternal deprivation is the terminology used in the early work of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, John Bowlby on the effects of separating infants and young children from their mother. Some of the research was previously used to discourage mothers from working or using childcare, but it seems important to revive these studies as children are being deprived of their mothers intentionally by abusive men who claim to be “parentally alienated” in an ongoing scandal that rivals that of the Catholic Priest sexual abuse cover up.  

Maternal Deprivation Abuse (MDA), has been identified as occurring with great frequency in legal proceedings, with specific unethical lawyers, psychologists, and judges perpetrating the the same scam on mother after mother with similar horrific results for the children. There has been death by suicide, suicide attempts, depression, academic distress, retaliation by a child against a PAS claiming father, and untold misery for the victimized children and mothers.

Based on Bolwby’s theories, Maternally Deprivation affects children as follows:

• Complete or almost complete deprivation could “entirely cripple the capacity to make relationships.”
• Partial deprivation could result in acute anxiety, depression, neediness and powerful emotions which the child could not regulate.
• The end product of such psychic disturbance could be neurosis and instability of character.(Bowlby J. (1951) pps. 11–12)

 

“Mother love in infancy and childhood is as important for mental health as are vitamins and proteins for physical health.” (Bowlby, 1953.)  Child psychoanalyst John Bowlby (1907–1990). 

 

Maternal Deprivation Abuse

Maternal Deprivation, or Motherlessness, is occurring with alarming frequency due to the unethical treatment of women and children in family court. Maternal Deprivation is inflicting abuse by severing the mother-child bond. It is a form of abuse that men inflict on both the mother and children, especially men who claim they are “parentally alienated” from their children when there are complaints of abusive treatment by the father.

Maternal Deprivation occurs when men seek to keep their children from being raised by their mothers who are the children’s natural caretakers. Some men murder the mothers of their own children. Others seek to sever the maternal bonds by making false allegations of fictitious psychological syndromes in a deliberate effort to change custody and/or keep the child from having contact with their mother when there are legal proceedings. A twisted form of Maternal Deprivation is to kill the children, so that the mother will be left to suffer. Sometimes there are family annihilation murders where the father kills the children and himself (or dies by cop), but the mother is not killed because she has received protective orders and her children have not as in the case of Jessica Gonzales.  

In seeking to define this form of abuse certain common elements are found in the Maternal Deprivation scenario as follows:

• History of domestic abuse that could be physical, psychological, sexual, and/or social abuse occurring on or off again, occasionally, or chronically which could be mild, moderate, or severe, including homicidal and/or suicidal threats. 
• Legal proceedings relating to abuse
• Hiring of “Fathers Rights” attorney
• Use of “Hired Gun” mental health professionals to make accusations of psychological disorder against the mother and children in deliberate effort to excuse abuse and change custody or grant visitation that is contrary to safety concerns. Another name for these unethical professionals are “Whores of the Courts“
• Raising claims of “psychological disorders” against the mother such as “Parental Alienation Syndrome” (PAS), Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome, Malicious Mother Syndrome, Lying Litigant Syndrome, Hostile Aggressive Parenting or any other mother-blaming psychological disorder that can be used by the unethical professional to re-victimize the victims.
• Infliction of “Legal Abuse” by continually and excessively filing motions so that the mother continually has to defend herself and her child(ren) causing financial and emotional devastation.
• Can occur in response to child support legal proceedings as retaliation.

The intent of “Maternal Deprivation” is to punish the mother and the child for revealing the abuse and to falsely claim that they are not abusive. This very commonly occurs as there are more and more “abuse-excuse” parental alienation accusing professionals who use this scientifically invalid theory over and over to achieve specific goals of the person paying them. Maternal Deprivation can also occur in response to child support legal proceedings. When occurring in this manner, Maternal Deprivation is a response to the financial demands as retaliation. Suddenly the father who had little prior involvement wants to take the kids half the time to avoid child support obligations, etc. When the men are really abusive, they ask for sole custody and demand the mother of the child pay them.

Although some people call this “Maternal Alienation”, a distinction needs to be made as the pro-pedophilia “Parental Alienation Syndrome” and the use of the word “Alienation” are most often used AGAINST battered women and abused children. There needs to be a distinction between the phony psychological syndrome and the intentional infliction of abuse on a mother and child by intentionally severing their natural bond. This distinction can best be made by NOT using the label of “Alienation” which will always be associated with the pro-pedophilia monster Doctor Richard Gardner.

Some of the characteristics of the especially heinous abusers who inflict Maternal Deprivation include but are not limited to the following:

• Angry
• Abusive
• Violent
• Coercive
• Controlling
• Threatening
• Intimidating
• Demanding
• Domineering
• Harassing
• Stalking
• Tyrannical
• Oppressive
• Forceful
• Manipulative
• Deceptive
• Unethical
• Un-empathetic (Lacks Empathy)
• Entitled
• Immature
• Self-centered
• Neglectful
• Guilt inducing
• Pushy
• Intentionally tries to humiliate mother and/or child
• Harsh, rigid and punitive parenting style
• Outrage at child’s challenge of authority
• May use force to reassert parental position
• Dismissive of child’s feelings and negative attitudes
• Vents rage, blames mother for “brainwashing” child and takes no responsibility
• Challenges child’s beliefs and/or attitudes and tries to convince them otherwise
• Inept and unempathic pursuit of child, pushes calls and letters, unannounced or embarrassing visits 

There is a distinct overlap of the intimate terrorist type domestic violence abuser with the Maternal Deprivation abusers as follows:

 

• Coercion and threats
• Intimidation
• Emotional abuse
• Isolation
• Minimizing, denying and blaming (Hallmarks of PAS)
• Using children
• Economic abuse
• Male privilege

The people who most often engage in Maternal Deprivation Abuse are most often: 

• Abusive men
• Vindictive second wives who don’t want to deal with the real mother of the children
• Paternal grandparents who raised dysfunctional children (abusers)

The effects of Maternal Deprivation often cause the children to become psychotic, depressed, and sometimes suicidal or to have suicidal ideations. Another terrible reaction is when the child retaliates against the parent who accuses Parental Alienation Syndrome as in a Texas case where the child killed his father. Other times when the Maternal Deprivation abuser completely takes over the will of the child by using brainwashing techniques similar to those used in prison camps where deprivation and isolation are used to force ideological changes in captives, these children often have a sort of trauma-bonding with the abuser and model their behavior. Sometimes these children will also abuse the mother in the same manner as the father. Another generation is created to carry on the abuse, and will likely do the same to their own spouse and children.

 

 

 

For more articles involving Maternal Deprivation:

Failure of Family Court System Leads To Death and Devastation

Doctor Who Intentionally Severs Bonds With Mothers Is a Monster

Child in imminent fear shoots father – vindicated in appeal – PAS fraud nightmare

Cincinatti PAS

VAWnet Joan Meier on PAS-Parental Alienation Syndrome & Parental Alienation: Research Reviews

And many more articles throughout Battered Mothers Lose Children to Abusers and all the links on the sidebar.

Maternal Deprivation Abuse will be featured on BMLCTA Blog in an effort to wipe out this heinous crime against mothers and children.

 

Doctor Who Intentionally Severs Bonds With Mothers Is a Monster

This Dr. Harry Harlow was not just unsympathetic, but a monster just like the unethical doctors who forcefully remove children from loving mothers by claiming parental alienation to give them to their abusers. Why do they do this? Because they get paid by the abuser to do this! It’s a fraud on the courts that needs to end!

From the Top Ten Unethical Psychological Experiments
The Well of Despair 1960

     Dr. Harry Harlow was an unsympathetic person, using terms like the rape rack and iron maiden in his experiments. He is most well-known for the experiments he conducted on rhesus monkeys concerning social isolation. Dr. Harlow took infant rhesus monkeys who had already bonded with their mothers and placed them in a stainless steel vertical chamber device alone with no contact in order to sever those bonds. They were kept in the chambers for up to one year. Many of these monkeys came out of the chamber psychotic, and many did not recover. Dr. Harlow concluded that even a happy, normal childhood was no defense against depression, while science writer Deborah Blum called these, common sense results.
     Gene Sackett of the University of Washington in Seattle, one of Harlows doctoral students, stated he believes the animal liberation movement in the U.S. was born as a result of Harlows experiments. William Mason, one of Harlows students, said that Harlow kept this going to the point where it was clear to many people that the work was really violating ordinary sensibilities, that anybody with respect for life or people would find this offensive. Its as if he sat down and said, Im only going to be around another ten years. What Id like to do, then, is leave a great big mess behind. If that was his aim, he did a perfect job.

Any doctor removing a child from their mother using the fraudulent theory of parental alienation or other phony psychobabble BS needs to be exposed for the monsters they are. They come up with phony rhetoric and say it in a convincing manner, much like they did back in Salem when they accused women of witchcraft.  

This Parental Alienation Custody Change Fraud is going to go down in history as one of the most unethical psychological social engineering experiments of all time. The scandal is on the same level as the cover up of sexual abuse by the Catholic Church. It’s time people start to wake up and recognize that these doctors are covering up for all types of domestic abuse against women and children for PROFIT.

If you click on the links regarding Dr. Harry Harlow, you will find out that he received awards from psychological associations. Maybe this will start to get people thinking that there are groups of people doing unethical experiments and they do support each other on their theories and cover up for each other. The APA also published the Rind Study which tried to justify child sexual abuse as being acceptable and not that harmful to children. There is a common thread between all of these sick studies that push quack theories to justify unacceptable behavior. Only with Parental Alienation Theory, the whole idea is to call the victims liars which re-victimizes them. All that is needed to do this is to pay an unethical doctor to testify who will ignore real evidence and substitute in their fraudulent rhetoric.

When people realized the horrible treatment of animals that Harlow inflicted, the result was an animal liberation movement. What needs to happen as a result of these unethical parental alienation scams is for children to have a liberation movement and demand to have rights to be heard and to make their own decisions.

And Intentionally Scaring Monkeys

Minnesota Mom-Same Judge, Same MHP, Same PAS Scam

Comment from Minnesota Mom who had the same Judge and MHP as Holly Collins, battered mom and kids who received asylum for human rights violations in the Netherlands.

Amazing how so frequently, the same people are involved in case after case using the same scam, same rhetoric, and same fraud to advocate for abusers.

Mom Says:

I am so happy to have found this site. I had the same Judge Porter, Susan DeVries, GAL was Jim Campbell who followed their lead and was hand picked by Judge. Doneldon Dennis was supervisor over Family Court Services, while running the AFCC side by side. Susan DeVries is also a member. Kay Kraus is partner in crime as well and they formed some private business.

I would like to add to the Hall of Shame we need GAL’s and Evaluators on there.

Minnesota Mom – your names have been added.

Thanks for the contribution.

 

US Mother and Children receive Asylum in Netherlands to Escape PAS Custody Scam

Holly Collins is only one of two women ever to be granted asylum due to failure to protect from domestic abuse. (The other women received asylum in Costs Rica) Holly received asylum after being re-victimized in Minnesota’s Family Court in Hennepin County by the all too common use of FALSE ACCUSATIONS OF FICTITIOUS SYNDROMES by accusing her of Parental Alienation. She lost custody of her children to a man known for abusing her and abusing the children. Despite the facts that the mother and the children all name the father as the abuser, the courts thought that it was much more important for the children to be treated like personal property of the father. The court evaluator in this case was Susan DeVries, the judge was Judge Charles A. Porter, and the Guardian Ad Litem was Mary Laughead, an attorney.

Holly and the children were fortunate to be able to escape the abuse and receive asylum in the Netherlands.

Most women and children are forced to endure ongoing re-victimization thru the court system. The children have to endure years of living under a microscope in this cases where the mothers and the children all complain of abuse. It doesn’t seem to matter how much evidence there is when UNETHICAL court evaluators and colluding lawyers, GALs, Judges and other so-called experts all get involved frequently to profiteer off of these horrible cases. It is my understanding that this county in Minnesota has other victims of the same scam who did not get away.

Desperate to protect her children from skull fractures, black eyes and repeated beatings, Holly Ann Collins fled to the Netherlands. There, the Dutch Court granted her human rights asylum after ruling it would be too dangerous for them to return to their father. Now, fourteen years later, Holly Ann Collins and her children are finally coming home.

Child Abuse Professionals Rally Around American Fugitive Returning to the US After 14 Years in Hiding

Newswise — Desperate to protect her children from skull fractures, black eyes and repeated beatings, Holly Ann Collins fled to the Netherlands. There, the Dutch Court granted her human rights asylum after ruling it would be too dangerous for them to return to their father. Now, fourteen years later, Holly Ann Collins and her children are finally coming home.

In a Hennepin County, Minnesota court house Tuesday, Holly Ann Collins pled guilty to contempt of court and accepted 40 hours of community service. The more serious charges of kidnapping and custody interference that could have resulted in a long prison sentence were dismissed. Holly Ann Collins acknowledged in an interview that she indeed had contempt for the court that ordered her children into a life of abuse.

As the story of those 14 years has unfolded, Holly Ann Collins who left in secret as an outlaw is being welcomed back by domestic violence professionals and child abuse experts as a heroic woman who valued her children’s safety above all else.

When Holly Ann and her children, Zachary and Jennifer, arrived in the Netherlands in 1994 and asked for asylum, they were placed in a refugee camp with families from around the world escaping violence and war. Holly Ann’s generous nature led many of the war orphans in the camp to gravitate to her, and she eventually included many of them in her own family. After three years and extensive evaluation the Dutch government granted her permanent asylum. When the FBI tracked her down a year ago, the Dutch government refused to extradite her.

Dr. Eli Newberger, a member of the Leadership Council’s Board and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard University, evaluated Jennifer and Zachary before they were placed in the custody of their father. The court ignored his team’s findings. “Despite the children’s clear disclosures of abuse, their documented history of serious injuries, and our team’s strong conclusion that the children needed to be protected, the court still chose to place them with the person they feared most in the world,” states Newberger.

The court acknowledged abuse had taken place but was swayed by the bogus legal argument that the children’s fears were a result of “Parental Alienation Syndrome,” a legal strategy of accused abusers which claims mothers brainwash children into false abuse disclosures. Holly Ann was allowed only limited, supervised visitations in which the children where forbidden to talk to their mother about the abuse or show her their bruises. When they were 9 and 11, Jennifer and Zachary passed her secret notes during supervised visits begging to be rescued from their father’s home.

Jennifer Collins, now a 23 year old psychology student, clearly remembers the abuse and wants to help other children forced to live with abusive parents. Jennifer was invited to tell her story to an audience of mental health professionals working in the field of family violence at the 13th International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma in San Diego on September 17, 2008. Over a thousand attendees were riveted by her account of her escape from child abuse and gave her a standing ovation as she received a medal of courage from the California Protective Parents Association and the Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence.

Dr. Joyanna Silberg, Executive Vice-President of the Leadership Council, spoke about Jennifer’s case to the conference audience and stated that the problems in family court have gotten worse in the last 14 years. The Leadership Council estimates that over 58,000 children a year in the United States are abuse victims that are ordered by family court to have unsupervised contact with abusers when their parents divorce.

The Leadership Council, a coalition of professionals committed to education about child abuse, does not condone breaking the law, but hopes the story of Holly Ann Collins and her children sparks needed reforms that protect children from abusive parents involved in custody disputes.

“A parent shouldn’t have to flee the United States to protect their children from abuse,” notes to Dr. Paul Fink, past President of the American Psychiatric Association and current President of the Leadership Council. He notes that one of the reforms needed is eradication of the use of “Parental Alienation Syndrome” which has been repeatedly debunked by leading professional organizations. Instead of relying on junk science, Dr. Fink contends that courts should actually look at the evidence before them when deciding the best interests of children.

Dr. Fink notes with irony that the media is covering Alec Baldwin this week who claims himself to be a victim of “Parental Alienation Syndrome”. Fink contends that the real victims of this misleading legal strategy are bruised and battered children like Jennifer and Zachary Collins.

The Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence is composed of national leaders in psychology, psychiatry, medicine, law, and public policy who are committed to the ethical application of psychological science and countering its misuse by special interest groups. Members of the Council are dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of children and other vulnerable populations. More information can be found at: http://www.leadershipcouncil.org

For more information on Holly Collins Story, please check out Stop Family Violence

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Jennifer Collins site: American Family Recieves Asylum in Europe