TY - JOUR T1 - The Parental Alienation Debate Belongs in the Courtroom, Not in DSM-5 JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 127 LP - 131 VL - 40 IS - 1 AU - Timothy M. Houchin AU - John Ranseen AU - Phillip A. K. Hash AU - Daniel J. Bartnicki Y1 - 2012/01/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/40/1/127.abstract N2 - 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). ER -