Parental Alienation: 'A hotly disputed topic'

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'Parental alienation is a hotly disputed topic among some members of the legal and mental health communities.

The American Psychiatric Association is debating whether or not to include parental alienation as a mental health syndrome in its 2013 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the DSM-5.

Those in favor of recognizing parental alienation as a mental disorder claim it would result in fairer decisions from family courts and enable child victims to get treatment and eventually reconcile with their estranged parent.

Those who oppose inclusion in the DSM-5 claim that parental alienation is junk science, or an unproven concept that abusive husbands use to draw attention away from their behaviors.'