In a recent book chapter entitled «Parental
Alignments and Alienation Among Children of High Conflict Divorce,» Johnston and Roseby opined, «Rather than seeing this syndrome as being induced in the child by an alienating parent, as Gardner does, we
propose that these «unholy alliances» are a later manifestation of the failed separation - individuation
process in especially vulnerable children who have been exposed to disturbed family relationships during their early years» (10; p. 202).