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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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    June 10, 2011

    'Parental Alienation Syndrome' Not Likely to Be Included in DSM-5

    Richard Gardner, father of PAS​A scientific task force evaluating psychological conditions for formal inclusion in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will recommend that the controversial theory known as "Parental Alienation Syndrome" (PAS) or "Parental A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Parental Alienation: A 'Mythical Legal Argument'

    PAS: Mad science?​Slate published an excellent story this week on the battle over whether to include the theory of "Parental Alienation Syndrome" in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Like almost every other informed and disinterested observer who has as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    'Parental Alienation Syndrome' -- Judge Isn't Buying it

    Richard Gardner​One of the more controversial topics addressed in our recent coverage of problems in California's family courts is the legitimacy of 'Parental Alienation Syndrome.' Invented by the late Richard Gardner -- a psychiatrist who argued that society treated pedophiles too harshly before ... More >>

  • News

    March 2, 2011

    California Family Courts Helping Pedophiles, Batterers Get Child Custody

    Richard Gardner​One of the more controversial topics addressed in our recent coverage of problems in California's family courts is the legitimacy of 'Parental Alienation Syndrome.' Invented by the late Richard Gardner -- a psychiatrist who argued that society treated pedophiles too harshly before ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    ZOMG! Chron Discovers Porn on the Internet.

    At my desk where I never use my work computer to look at porn. Except when I do.​The front page of the Datebook in Monday's Chronicle offered a photograph of a pair of hands bound by the cord of a computer mouse and the headline "Putting Lives on the Line for Porn." The story opens with what the w ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2009

    Gathering Storm

    They pile up their stuff to the point of fire danger and rat infestation. A task force is taking on this nearly insurmountable problem.

  • News

    June 3, 1998

    Perverted Justice?

    Or is a new law that puts sexual predators in long-term psychiatric lock-up really -- and finally -- justice for perverts?

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