PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Houchin, Timothy M.
AU  - Ranseen, John
AU  - Hash, Phillip A. K.
AU  - Bartnicki, Daniel J.
TI  - The Parental Alienation Debate Belongs in the Courtroom, Not in DSM-5
DP  - 2012 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 127--131
VI  - 40
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/40/1/127.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/40/1/127.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2012 Jan 01; 40
AB  - The DSM-5 Task Force is presently considering whether to adopt parental alienation disorder (PAD) as a mental illness. Although controversy has surrounded PAD since its inception in 1985, pro-PAD groups and individuals have breathed new life into the push to establish it as a mental health diagnosis. In this analysis, we argue that it would be a serious mistake to adopt parental alienation disorder as a formal mental illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5).