Extreme forms of parental alienation include obsessive brainwashing, character assassination, and the false inducement of fear, shame, and rage in
children against the target parent.
We must keep in mind that very often, if not always, these alienated children have essentially already lost one parent through access and visitation blocking (Criterion One), and false abuse
allegations against the targeted parent (Criterion Two), which results in the denigration of that child's relationship with their once loved parent (Criterion Three).
A severely alienating parent that brainwashes their child (ren)
against the targeted parent gains no happiness from such toxic behaviours; it is merely about control and abuse for the alienator.
«Current practices in reunification therapy may involve simply listening to the child's litany of
complaints against the targeted parent, having the targeted parent apologize to the child for supposed parental failures (often exaggerated, distorted, or even fabricated by the child), and encouraging the further disempowerment of the targeted parent who must seek to appease the child, continually, and without success in altering the child's rejection.
In some cases of severe PAS, the alienating parent trains the child to be an agent of
aggression against the target parent, with the child actively participating in deceits and manipulations for the purpose of harassing and persecuting the target parent.
«We consider Parental Alienation Syndrome as a childhood disorder caused by an alienating parent sharing primitive defenses with a vulnerable
child against a target parent.
Family Systems Therapy: The child's «triangulation» into the spousal conflict through the formation of a «cross-generational coalition» with an allied
parent against the targeted parent, resulting in an «emotional cutoff» in the child's relationship with the targeted parent.
Moderate forms of parental alienation include loss of self control, flareups of anger, and unconscious alliances with the children
against the target parent.
Alienating parents often use grandparents, aunts / uncles, and other elders to alienate their children
against the target parent.
In her overview, Amy Baker gives a standard view of Parental Alienation: The Alienating Parent typically uses 17 strategies to turn their child
against the Targeted Parent.
Far too many of these «professionals» do not see the alienating parent refusing to co-operate and actually brainwashing the children
against the targeted parent and their family.
In terms of parental alienation, this will normally present as the targeting parent brainwashing a child / children
against the targeted parent, therefore engaging in psychopathic behaviour.
When parental alienation is severe enough, children have no choice but to align with the disturbed parent
against the target parent, thus destroying their relationship with the target parent.