
Parental Alienation Strategies
There are two primary strategies (typically used in conjunction with each other) that alienators employ to punish and erase the other parent.
The first strategy involves the manipulation of the legal system (we’ll get to this later), and the second involves the direct psychological manipulation of the child.
Psychological research reveals that narcissistic personality traits are prone to dominate the alienating parent’s behavior because these personalities are generally incapable of separating their own needs from those of their children, and, are quite comfortable with using and exploiting them to achieve their goals. Narcissists are incapable of empathy toward others (including their own kids) and are largely unconcerned with the welfare of anyone but themselves.
They don’t have genuine relationships, because to them, people tend to be objects to be manipulated for their own ends. With a narcissist, there is no real love, no genuine caring for others. They give only if it gets them more in return, and once a person ceases to be useful they’ll usually be discarded.
Narcissists aren’t difficult to spot once you know the personality markers:
- Highly controlling
- Consistently insist you prioritize their needs above others
- Regularly employ emotional threats and punishments to get what they want
- Are unable to see a perspective other than their own
- Become enraged when their manipulations are disrupted or when they are criticized (commonly known as “narcissistic rage”)
- Absent empathy toward others, especially where their own behavior is concerned
- Possess an exaggerated sense of self-importance
- Commonly portray themselves as both the victim and the hero
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- I am the only parent who loves you and you need me to feel good about yourself.
- The other parent is dangerous and unavailable.
- Pursuing a relationship with the other parent jeopardizes your relationship with me.
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- Poisonous messages to the child about the targeted parent in which he or she is portrayed as unloving, unsafe, and unavailable.
- Limiting contact and communication between the child and the targeted parent.
- Erasing and replacing the targeted parent in the heart and mind of the child.
- Encouraging the child to betray the targeted parent’s trust.
- Undermining the authority of the targeted parent
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The Story Of Parental Alienation:
- (1) Introduction
- (2) What Is Parental Alienation?
- (3) Degrees of Parental Alienation
- (4) Parental Alienation Strategies
- (5) The Damage Parental Alienation Causes to Children: Parental Alienation Syndrome
- (6) The Effects of PA On The Targeted Parent
- (7) The Nuclear Weapon: False Allegations of Abuse
- (8) The Predators
- (9) The Lie
- (10) A Call for Hope and Healing
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