Influencers — Researchers, Clinicians & Practitioners Shaping the PA Field¶
Reference pages for the people whose work parents, lawyers, and researchers in the parental-alienation space need to know. Profiles include credentials, key publications, where to find their work, and (where publicly listed) contact paths.
Field-defining researchers & clinicians¶
- William Bernet, MD — Vanderbilt; founder of the Parental Alienation Study Group (PASG)
- Richard A. Warshak, PhD — author of Divorce Poison; creator of Family Bridges
- Amy J. L. Baker, PhD — author of Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome
- Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. — co-founder, High Conflict Institute; BIFF method
- Jennifer Harman, PhD — Colorado State University; PA prevalence research
Practitioners, expert witnesses & legal scholars¶
- Edward Kruk, PhD — UBC; shared-parenting research; ICSP founder
- Karen Woodall — Family Separation Clinic, UK
- Craig Childress, PsyD — Multi-Modal Family Intervention; attachment-based PA model
- Demosthenes Lorandos, JD, PhD — expert witness; Parental Alienation Handbook
- J. Michael Bone, PhD — Florida-based PA expert witness; "Four Criteria" framework
- Linda J. Gottlieb, LMFT, LCSW-R — Turning Points for Families (TPFF) intensive reunification
Resist-refuse framework¶
- Joan B. Kelly, PhD — co-author of the 2001 reformulation of PA
- Janet R. Johnston, PhD — co-author of the resist-refuse framework; bridge between camps
Canadian legal-academic axis¶
- Nicholas (Nick) Bala, LLM — Queen's University Law; Children Who Resist Postseparation Parental Contact
- Barbara Jo Fidler, PhD, C.Psych. — clinical counterpart to Bala; AFCC senior trainer
European voices¶
- Wilfrid von Boch-Galhau, MD — Germany; primary German-language PA clinician-author
- Asunción Tejedor Huerta, PhD — Spain; PIVIP intervention protocol
- Sietske Dijkstra, PhD — Netherlands; coercive-control / PA bridge research
Critics — included for balance¶
PA is a contested field. The open-source ethos requires that critics be referenced alongside proponents so readers see the real debate.
- Joyanna Silberg, PhD — Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence; primary US clinical critic of PA-driven custody decisions
Legacy figures¶
- Steven G. Miller, MD (1949–2022) — Harvard Medical School faculty 30 years; seminal lecturer on clinical decision-making errors in PA evaluations. Archived talks at lindagottlieb.com/steven-miller-parental-alienation.
Honourable mention¶
- Robert Geffner, PhD — President Emeritus, Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma; leading critic of PA reunification programmes (2022 critique in J. Family Trauma, Child Custody & Child Development).
- Benoît Van Dieren — French-language PA-prevention work, Belgium (no current authoritative public site verified).
Honest gaps¶
We are actively seeking profiles for: - Italian-speaking PA researchers and clinicians (CISMAI is the major Italian critic-side body) - Polish, Czech, and other Central/Eastern European voices - Latin American academics beyond the Spanish/Portuguese practitioner space - More African and Asian regional figures
PRs welcome.
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