(en) [Parental alienation syndrome: The case for a joint intervention between child psychiatrist and legal practitioner] Over the past fifty years the model of the family as a unit that brings two parents and their child(ren) together under the same roof has moved on – in some urban zones it is now the exception rather than the rule. The number of separations today is significant, and some of them involve conflict. The child can therefore end up being caught up in pathological relational mechanisms deleterious to his psychic state and mental health, to the point where he enters into a process of alienation. Seeking to take a critical look at the contemporary problem of “parental alienation syndrome,” we develop a two-handed reflection on the matter, demonstrating the value of a joint intervention involving the novel dyad of a child psychiatrist and a legal practitioner. A combination very rarely seen in clinical practice, it responds to the different and complementary aspects present in these situations, which involve both psychopathological and socio-legal elements. We discuss this theme on the basis of our own experience in a child protection team.
de Becker, E., & Beague, M. (2018). Le syndrome d’aliénation parentale : intérêt d’une co-intervention pédopsychiatre-juriste. La Psychiatrie de l’Enfant, 61(2), 301-320. https://doi.org/10.3917/psye.612.0301 (Original work published 2018)