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	• A Kidnapped Mind: A Mother's Heartbreaking Memoir of Parental Alienation Pamela Richardson Dundurn Press, 2006 - 312 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great read

This book is a great read. Though the story is sad, the lesson is strong. With more and more information out in public on Alienation, perhaps society can understand this sad epidemic.

My own shattered heart.....

This book is a must read for all those who deal with children, too many to begin listing. I stood by helplessly while my ex-husband lied and manipulated my two daughters into thinking that I had abandoned them. He would call me and taunt me with the lies that he was telling them. He too, lumped them into a category of one. I do not think that I can ever forgive the way he misused the trust that a trusting child put in him. All for pride and revenge. Too many divorces are ending up this way. I have come to see that there are generally two kinds of people in a marriage that doesn't work; the alienater and the alienated. This book shows how the justice system overlooks the helpless, innocent child. My heart cracked a little more each time Pamela was given a small victory only to have it so cruelly snatched back. PAS is so alive and so well and growing like a disease all around us. I have struggled every day for the last ten years to rebuild a relationship with my youngest daughter and while I have not given up hope that one day I will have my oldest daughter back in my life, that hope does dwindle each day. My husband and I have dealt with this pain two fold. While he is now rebuilding the relationships with his sons, his ex-wife has reaked havoc in their lives for many years. All four of our children as well as the two of us suffer from PAS. It took a lot of courage for Pamela Richardson to write this book and I applaude her. As parents, we need to make sure that all of our struggles are not in vain.

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A must for any parent contemplating divorce

Pamela's case is definitely an example of the worst case scenario of what can happen when a parent manipulates the mind of a child and the judicial system enables this manipulation to continue unrestricted. Written from what had to be dozens of journals and tape recordings, it was so well written that I felt I was re-living her life. I believe it should be required reading for any parent considering divorce because it highlights the monumental impact words have on a developing mind. It should also be required reading for family law attorneys and therapists. My heart goes out to Pamela and her family.

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A painful read, but so valuable

This is such a valuable book to read if you are experiencing parental alienation syndrome--your "ex" poisoning your children against you.
The author outlines the progressive steps her son's dad took to turn her son against her. One thing to pay attention to is that she gave up custody in the hopes that her son's dad would cool down and not continue with the hostility.
But as she found out, that action just made things a lot worse--the hostility continued unabated.
She also points out how the alienating parent is very likely to have mental illness issues. This makes sense: what mentally or emotionally healthy parent would force their child to choose between parents? What mentally or emotionally healthy parent would continue fighting when they have "won" full control of the child? What mentally or emotionally healthy parent would so abuse their child (because poisoning a child against the other parent is truly child abuse) that the child becomes so hopeless that the child suicides.
If you are experiencing this, read this book, don't take the high road with your child(ren)'s parent, hang in there and fight--your child's future is at stake.

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Horrifying story that should serve as a warning for others..

This book is a must read for anyone going through a divorce. It Chronicles one mother's efforts to stop her ex husband from alienating her son from her and his ultimate death through suicide. She does everything she thinks is the right thing to do, but ultimately it did not work, and gives her painful hindsight advice to all parents who are going through something like this. Parental Alienation Syndrome is real, this book proves it, maybe someday the courts will notice it.

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How do we begin to describe our love for our children? Pamela Richardson shows us with her passionate memoir of life with and without her estranged son, Dash. From age five Dash suffered Parental Alienation Syndrome at the hands of his father. Indoctrinated to believe his mother had abandoned him, after years of monitored phone calls and impeded access eight-year-old Dash decided he didn't want to be "forced" to visit her at all; later he told her he would never see her again if she took the case to court.

But he didn't count on his indefatigable mother's fierce love. For eight more years Pamela battled Dash's father, the legal system, their psychologist, the school system, and Dash himself to try and protect her son - first from his father, then from himself. A Kidnapped Mind is a heartrending and mesmerizing story of a Canadian mother's exile from and reunion with her child, through grief and beyond, to peace.

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