Parental alienation is a form of child abuse that we are only beginning to recognize. Technically speaking, it’s when a child aligns with one parent and rejects its other parent for reasons that are ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Confession: I finally had my Achim Freyer fit. It was during the first ...

I always thought there was something half-baked in Bertolt Brecht’s formulation of the “alienation effect.” First, there is a discrepancy between what he aims for and the method he proposes to get ...

Alan D. Blotcky, Ph.D., is a clinical and forensic psychologist in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama. William Bernet, M.D., is Professor Emeritus for the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt ...

Dr. Ink prefers sex in the suburbs to “Sex and the City,” but this is not a column about geo-erotica. Instead, the testy Doc wants to express his resentment for all the coverage the new season of the ...