Title: The parental alienation syndrome
Description: Provides documentation involving 56 children for the 8 characteristic symptoms 
of PAS as described by Richard Gardner,
MD; provides treatment summaries of 16 PAS families involving 32 children using a structural family therapy modality as per Salvador Minuchin, MD; explains why family therapy must be the treatment of choice; and finally, based on interviews with 10 attorneys, recommends that child custody by resolved through a collaborative rather than adversarial model.
Subjects: Parental alienation syndrome, Family therapy, Family psychotherapy