Stories cite in the grain of the prose. This page is the shelf. None of it is a diagnosis of a family you have not sat with. If a citation is behind a paywall, the idea is still attributed.
Child and family mind
- Garber, B. D. (2020). Sherlock Holmes and the case of resist-refuse dynamics: Confirmatory bias and inductive reasoning in child custody evaluations. Family Court Review.
- Fidler, B. J., Deutsch, R. M., & Polak, S. (2019). Working with families struggling with entrenched parent–child contact problems. In Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems (Oxford).
- Kelly, J. B., & Johnston, J. R. (2001). The alienated child: A reformulation of parental alienation syndrome. Family Court Review.
- Bernet, W., Wamboldt, M. Z., & Narrow, W. E. Child affected by parental relationship distress (CAPRD) — DSM-5 language.
- Baker, A. J. L. Work with adults who experienced parental alienating behaviors as children.
- Bowlby, J. Attachment and Loss.
- Minuchin, S. Families and Family Therapy — enmeshment and the child’s separate self.
Bond-breaking and harm
- Harman, J. J., Kruk, E., & Hines, D. A. Reviews of parental alienating behaviors and effects on targeted parents and children.
- Hines, D. A., & colleagues (2024). Parent–child bond-breaking as relational aggression — measurement and both parental roles.
- Hine, B., and UK prevalence work on parental alienating behaviors (2025).
- Longitudinal work (2025) on alienation behaviors, parent–child attachment, emotion regulation, and adolescent problems.
- Meier, J. S. and related work on misuse of alienation claims against protective parents — held here as a necessary counterweight.
One-way rules
- Harman and colleagues on alienating behaviors as relational aggression — including gatekeeping of time and information after a parent begins a new life.
- Clinical writing on reactive abuse — the person who finally answers in kind is often the one who photographs as the problem. Not a DSM diagnosis; a pattern in the tape.
- Baker, A. J. L. — adults who grew up inside one parent’s story of the other, and later recognized the story as a story.
- Kelly and Johnston — the child required to share a parent’s total narrative; loyalty conflict when a new partner is ranked as a replacement.
Spirit and the sequel
- Sallatha Sutta (SN 36.6), “The Dart” — an old story about pain, and the sequel you do not have to write.
- Bhikkhu Bodhi, translations and notes on vedanā and papañca.
- Hayes, S. C., Strosahl, K. D., & Wilson, K. G. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — on fusion with a wound-story.
Law as literacy only
- State “best interests of the child” factors — read yours; they are not uniform in application.
- Shak v. Shak, 484 Mass. 658 — nondisparagement and prior restraint (one jurisdiction’s limit, not a nationwide rule).
- Public reporting on grievance blogs and self-published books that children could find — including contempt and takedown orders. The lesson is ethical even where the First Amendment would let you keep the page.