When the three diagnostic indicators of attachment - based «parental alienation» (i.e., of a cross-generational coalition of the child with a narcissistic / (borderline) parent involving the role - reversal use of the child as a regulatory object for the parent's emotional and psychological
state) are present, if the psychologist does not make an accurate diagnosis of the pathology then the «
reasonably foreseeable consequences» would be the child's loss of a developmentally
healthy and bonded relationship with a normal - range and affectionally available parent, and the developmental pathology imposed on the child by the pathogenic parenting of the narcissistic / borderline parent.