Parental Alienation is Pseudoscience: a collective response from 79 professionals from 16 countries
Parental Alienation is Pseudoscience
On the 4th of June 2024, 13 Swedish academics (including the lead author, who is based at UCL in London, UK) and psychologists raised caution related to the use of the so-called ‘parental alienation' belief system in Swedish Family Courts through the article ‘Parental Alienation is Pseudoscience’ published in the Swedish magazine directed at psychologists, ‘Psykologtidningen’ see the English translation of Parental Alienation is Pseudoscience here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381731424_Parental_Alienation_is_Pseudoscience
This was followed by two rebuttals both published on the 12th of June 2024, one by a Swedish academic and another by a Swedish journalist. We, a group of 79 international academics, health- and legal professionals from 16 countries, have therefore come together to provide a final rebuttal to the two critical responses claiming that the original article ‘Parental Alienation is Pseudoscience’ lacks scientific basis and is misrepresentative.
In this response, we outline the scientific evidence that our original statement builds on and meet the criticism in detail.
Cite as: Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Meier, J.S., Barnett, A., Mercer, J., Neilson, L.C., Pollack, D., Halperin-Kaddari, R., Corwin, D.L., Hester, M. Zaccour, S., Thiara, R., Weiner, M., Rathus, Z., Edleson, J.L., Page, N., Leonetti, C., Dalgarno, E., Spearman, K.J., Katz, E., Chester, S., Sheehy, E., Champion, K. et al. (2024). A collective international response to the claim that so-called ‘parental alienation’ is a well-studied ‘gender neutral’ empirical phenomenon which can easily be measured. Published online, NFVLC, UCL, SHERA RG and SFN. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20834.34246
Read the article here:
