Manipulation, beliefs and media images: the petrie dish in which domestic abuse grows

Update added March, 2025. Lundy Bancroft has now been exposed as a predator. Any red lettering in the post below is part of this update. [End of March, 2025 update.] Lundy Bancroft talks about the abuser's manipulative skills. The abuser tends to be a highly manipulative individual and some of them are better at it than… Continue reading Manipulation, beliefs and media images: the petrie dish in which domestic abuse grows

The Truth Behind Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) — part 1

Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is a theory developed by Richard Gardner, MD, who claimed that PAS is "a disorder of children, arising almost exclusively in child-custody disputes, in which one parent (usually the mother) programs the child to hate the other parent (usually the father)." The theory was developed in 1985 and was based on… Continue reading The Truth Behind Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) — part 1