SAP)¶

Repository: AntiAlienate / antialienate-knowledge Country: Mexico (MX) License: CC BY 4.0 Generated: 2026-05-30 Schema version: 1.0 Sibling JSON: practitioners-mexico-therapists.json Supersedes the Mexico block in: practitioners-latam-therapists.md (deeper standalone country file)

Jurisdictional Context¶

Mexico is among the highest-volume PA-clinical jurisdictions in LATAM and the only one in the region where alienación parental was simultaneously (a) codified in a federal-entity Civil Code (CDMX), (b) repealed from that same Code, and (c) repeatedly litigated at apex-court level — producing an unusually layered doctrinal record. Any clinician practising in this space must be read against eight load-bearing anchors:

SCJN — Acción de Inconstitucionalidad 11/2016 (Oaxaca). Filed 2 Feb 2016 by the Defensor de los Derechos Humanos del Pueblo de Oaxaca. The Pleno of the SCJN, resolved partially fundada in October 2017; sentencia published in Diario Oficial de la Federación on 16 May 2018.
The SCJN invalidated the automatic suspensión o pérdida de la patria potestad attached to alienación parental in Oaxaca's Código Civil arts. 336 Bis B (último párrafo), 429 Bis A (primer párrafo, "bajo pena de suspensión o pérdida de la patria potestad") and 459 fracción IV (Decreto 1380, DOF Oaxaca 2 Jan 2016).
It did not strike down the figura of alienación parental in toto — a frequently misreported nuance.
Crónica oficial: https://www.scjn.gob.mx/sites/default/files/cronicas_pleno_salas/documento/2019-08/cr-NLPH-0011-16.pdf
DOF: https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5522808&fecha=16/05/2018
Sentencia engrose: https://www2.scjn.gob.mx/juridica/engroses/3/2016/19/3_193848_3583_firmado.pdf
SCJN — Amparo Directo en Revisión 2424/2014 (Primera Sala, Min. Pte. Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea). Status: file-number not independently verifiable in SCJN public engroses retrievable as of 2026-05-30. The user-brief framing — that ADR 2424/2014 "confirmed that alienación parental may constitute violence against the child" — is partially plausible as a paraphrase of Primera-Sala doctrine (most cleanly stated in ADR 3859/2014, Min. Pte. Zaldívar, https://www.scjn.gob.mx/derechos-humanos/sites/default/files/sentencias-emblematicas/sentencia/2022-01/ADR3859-2014.pdf, which frames PA conduct as a form of violencia familiar) and in ADR 2710/2017 (modificación de guarda y custodia por impedir convivencias, https://www.sitios.scjn.gob.mx/cec/sites/default/files/page/files/2020-09/ADR%202710%202017%20V.%20P%C3%BAblica%20Modificar%20Guarda%20y%20Custodia%20por%20Impedir%20Convivencias.pdf), but the specific expediente 2424/2014 is no se ha podido verificar públicamente in primary SCJN sources. Citers should use ADR 3859/2014 / ADR 2710/2017 / AI 11/2016 as the safer anchors.
CDMX — Código Civil para el Distrito Federal, art. 323 Septimus — the 2014 → 2017 derogation saga (NOT 2021 as is sometimes reported). This is the load-bearing correction in this file:
9 May 2014: ALDF reforma adds art. 323 Septimus codifying alienación parental as form of violencia familiar. Texto: https://www.anasap.org/2014/05/articulo-323-septimus-del-codigo-civil-vigente-de-mexico-df/
14 July 2017: ALDF approves derogación 36-0. http://www.aldf.gob.mx/comsoc-aprueba-aldf-eliminar-codigo-civil-distrito-federal-figura-alienacion-parental--34534.html
4 August 2017: derogation enters into force.
1 August 2017: CDHCM (then CDHDF) celebrates derogation: https://cdhcm.org.mx/2017/08/la-cdhdf-reconoce-la-proteccion-de-los-derechos-humanos-a-traves-de-la-derogacion-de-la-mal-denominada-figura-de-alienacion-parental-del-codigo-civil-de-la-ciudad-de-mexico/
Cimacnoticias coverage: "Juzgados de CDMX obligados a desechar Alienación Parental" https://cimacnoticias.com.mx/noticia/juzgados-de-cdmx-obligados-a-desechar-alienacion-parental/
El Universal: https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/metropoli/cdmx/2017/08/1/asamblea-deroga-alienacion-parental-de-codigo-civil/
Subsequent reform-back attempts have occurred (notably in the 2021–2024 legislatures) but CDMX 323 Septimus remains derogated as of 2026-05-30.
State-level civil-code variation. Even after CDMX derogation and AI 11/2016, alienación parental remains codified or referenced in family-law provisions of: Estado de México, Aguascalientes, Coahuila, Hidalgo, Querétaro, Puebla (variable), among others. State variation is the single biggest determinant of whether a perito psicólogo encounters AP as a tipificable category in their juzgado familiar. The CELIG / Congreso CDMX (2024) Información Técnica sobre Alienación Parental tracks the state-code map: https://genero.congresocdmx.gob.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CELIG-Inform-Te%CC%81c-Alienacio%CC%81n-Parental-29-05-24.pdf
SCJN Protocolo para Juzgar con Perspectiva de Infancia y Adolescencia (Nov 2021). The doctrinal procedural anchor for jueces y peritos: requires the interés superior de la niñez + perspectiva de género transversal lens; cautions against AP as default lens but does not prohibit its consideration. https://www.scjn.gob.mx/derechos-humanos/sites/default/files/protocolos/archivos/2021-11/Protocolo%20para%20juzgar%20con%20perspectiva%20de%20IA%2010nov21.pdf
CNDH — Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos. Published the multi-author institutional volume Alienación Parental (1ª ed. 2011, 2ª ed. expanded), 317 pp., the single most-cited Mexican institutional book on AP — explicitly mixed-positions, hosting both recognition and critique chapters. Direct URL (CNDH biblioteca): http://appweb.cndh.org.mx/biblioteca/archivos/pdfs/allienacionParental_2aEd.pdf — institutional landing https://www.cndh.org.mx/tema/194/ninez-y-familia
CDHCM — Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México. Published Alienación parental (2015): https://cdhcm.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Alienacion-parental.pdf. Filed Amicus Curiae Amparo Directo 14/2020 before SCJN: https://cdhcm.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Amicus-Curiae-Amparo-Directo-14-2020-SCJN.pdf — the most explicit critique-side institutional intervention before the apex court.
INMUJERES / CONAVIM / CEAV. Federal women's-rights and victim-attention bodies. No primary-source PA-specific clinical guía publicly retrievable as of 2026-05-30 from these three institutions individually, despite frequent assumption to the contrary. Their positions are inferred from the LGAMVLV (Ley General de Acceso de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia) framework rather than from named PA-specific publications.

Forensic structure. Mexican family-court forensic psychology operates through three streams that practitioners must be classed against: - Peritos psicólogos adscritos a los Juzgados Familiares of each state's Poder Judicial (CDMX, Estado de México, Jalisco, Nuevo León have the densest dockets). Reports are court-ordered. - Peritos del Tribunal Superior de Justicia (TSJ) — career civil servants. - Peritos de parte / peritos privados — where most named recognition-camp clinical literature is deployed.

Direction of travel. Mexico is not a critique-statute jurisdiction (it is neither Brazil's Lei 12.318/2010 recognition model nor Spain's LOPIVI Disp. ad. 17ª critique model). It is a layered-doctrine jurisdiction: federal apex-court invalidation of the automaticity of AP consequences (AI 11/2016), combined with surviving state-level codification, combined with a derogated-then-not-replaced CDMX flagship article, combined with mixed institutional positions. The recognition camp's strongest institutional anchor is AMPFS (Asociación Mexicana de Padres de Familia Separados) + Mendoza-Amaro / GARI-PA. The critique camp's strongest institutional anchors are the CDHCM + CELIG/Congreso CDMX + the academic-feminism line in UNAM / FES Iztacala / CEIICH + the cimacnoticias coverage circuit.

Recognition Camp — Clinicians who treat parental alienation as a real and intervention-requiring clinical phenomenon¶

1. Dr. Alejandro Mendoza Amaro, MD PhD¶

Credentials: Médico Cirujano y Partero; Lic. Psicología Educativa; Maestría en Ciencias de la Salud; PhD en Psicología (Universidad de Guadalajara, 2015-2018).
Cédula profesional: Not publicly displayed; held under SEP for MD + Lic. Psicología.
Entidad federativa: Michoacán (Morelia).
University / institutional affiliation: Jefe de Enseñanza e Investigación, Hospital Psiquiátrico "Dr. José Torres Orozco", Secretaría de Salud de Michoacán (since Aug 2018); Presidente del Capítulo Hispano de GARI-PA (Global Action for Research Integrity in Parental Alienation); PASG (Parental Alienation Study Group) core member (since 31 Mar 2019); Delegado Científico de AMPFS; Comité Científico CEAP Argentina.
Stance: recognition.
Stance source / publications:
Mendoza Amaro, A. (s.f.) Análisis Comprensivo de la Sentencia Dictada por el Tribunal Pleno de la SCJN en la Acción de Inconstitucionalidad 11/2016 y sus Implicaciones en los Derechos de los Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes en Torno a la Alienación Parental — Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/41873290/
Mendoza Amaro, A. (2021) Amicus Curiae sobre la Tesis del Protocolo para Juzgar con Perspectiva de Infancia y Adolescencia de la SCJN respecto a la Alienación Parental — ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alejandro-Amaro-4/publication/357097190
Co-author, Declaration of the Global Movement for Scientific Integrity in Parental Alienation (with W. Bernet, US) — GARI-PA founding document.
Carta al editor re Síndrome de Alienación Parental: un concepto que actualmente debe ser considerado en desuso, Acta Pediátrica de México https://actapediatrica.org.mx/article/carta-al-editor-con-relacion-al-articulo-sindrome-de-alienacion-parental-un-concepto-que-actualmente-debe-ser-considerado-en-desuso/
URLs: https://mendozaphd.wixsite.com/website ; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alejandro-Amaro-4 ; LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandromendozaamaromdphd/
Contact: dr_mendoza@outlook.com ; +52 144 3273 0494.
Verification notes: The single most institutionally connected Mexican PA-recognition clinician — PASG + GARI-PA + CEAP + AMPFS + public-sector psychiatric hospital chieftaincy. Any Hispanophone PASG conversation routes through him. Already in LATAM file; reaffirmed.

2. Alejandro Heredia Ávila — Director General, AMPFS¶

Credentials: Practitioner-advocate (not a clinician of record); director of the leading Mexican PA-affected-parents association.
Entidad federativa: Operates CDMX + Estado de México + Jalisco delegations.
Institution: AMPFS — Asociación Mexicana de Padres de Familia Separados A.C. (founded Oct 2002). Primary URL: https://www.ampfs.com.mx/
Stance: recognition (advocacy / institutional).
Stance source:
AMPFS public proposals to Congreso de la Unión, since 2018, re: Daño Moral por Alienación Parental y Registro Nacional de Obstructores del Vínculo Filio-Paterno-Materno — Perspectivas coverage https://perspectivas.mx/plantea-la-ampfs-crear-registro-nacional-de-obstructores-del-vinculo-familiar-en-mexico/
AMPFS institutional X account @ampfsMexico ; APFS Spain reciprocal listing https://apfs.es/ampfs-asociacion-mexicana-de-padres-de-familia-separados/
URLs: https://www.ampfs.com.mx/ ; https://www.facebook.com/ampfsMexico/
Contact: AMPFS contact channels.
Verification notes: Heredia Ávila is the institutional voice through which the recognition camp routes legislative-reform efforts. Not himself a credentialed psicólogo, but the directional gatekeeper for recognition-camp clinical referrals.

3. Nelson Zicavo Martínez — Crianza Compartida (Editorial Trillas México)¶

Credentials: Doctor en Psicología; psicólogo clínico.
Entidad federativa: Chile-born / publishes through Mexican publisher (Editorial Trillas); included here because his Trillas book is the single most-cited Mexican-press recognition-camp textbook in Spanish.
Stance: recognition.
Stance source:
Zicavo, N. (2010 / repr.) Crianza Compartida. Síndrome de Alienación Parental, Padrectomía, los Derechos de los Hijos ante la Separación de los Padres, Editorial Trillas, México, ISBN 978-607-17-0661-4. ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278019380_Crianza_Compartida_Sindrome_de_Alienacion_Parental_Padrectomia_los_Derechos_de_los_Hijos_ante_la_Separacion_de_los_Padres
URL: Editorial Trillas catalog (ISBN search) + ResearchGate as above.
Contact: Via Editorial Trillas.
Verification notes: Included for publication footprint within Mexico (Trillas is Mexico's largest psicología-clínica trade-publisher). Personally based outside Mexico but functionally indistinguishable in the Mexican PA-clinical reading list.

4. Laura Evelia Torres Velázquez, Dra.¶

Credentials: Doctora en Psicología; profesora investigadora titular, FES Iztacala UNAM; miembro del Programa Institucional de Estudios de Género, FES Iztacala.
Cédula profesional: Not publicly displayed; SEP-registered.
Entidad federativa: Estado de México (Tlalnepantla — FES Iztacala campus).
University: UNAM — FES Iztacala, División de Investigación y Posgrado. https://posgrado.iztacala.unam.mx/torres-velazquez-laura-evelia/
Stance: recognition (with feminist/gender-perspective qualification). This is a structurally unusual placement: Torres Velázquez operates inside the academic-feminism circuit and publishes treating AP as a real clinical phenomenon producing harm to children. She is the principal Mexican academic voice arguing AP can be analysed with a perspectiva de género rather than against it.
Stance source / publications:
Torres Velázquez, L. E. et al. — chapter contributor to CNDH Alienación Parental (2ª ed., 2011, 317 pp.) http://appweb.cndh.org.mx/biblioteca/archivos/pdfs/allienacionParental_2aEd.pdf
Co-author of Estilos de familia más allá de la moderna. Una crítica a la categoría de "democracia familiar" en Giddens, Revista Electrónica de Psicología Iztacala https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/repi/article/view/22820
Cited in Entre Hombres MX interview podcast Ep. 183 Alienación parental (Laura Evelia Torres) https://www.entrehombres.net/183-alienacion-parental-laura-evelia-torres/
ISBN-Mexico author registry (Indautor CERLALC) https://isbnmexico.indautor.cerlalc.org/catalogo.php?mode=busqueda_menu&id_autor=18781
URLs: https://posgrado.iztacala.unam.mx/torres-velazquez-laura-evelia/ ; ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Laura-Evelia-Torres-Velazquez-Laura-Evelia-Torres-Velazquez
Contact: Via FES Iztacala División de Investigación y Posgrado.
Verification notes: Confirmed UNAM faculty; PA-specific publications confirmed via the CNDH volume and the Entre Hombres podcast. The single most-cited UNAM voice in the recognition camp.

Critique Camp — Clinicians and academics who treat SAP as scientifically unsupported / a post-separation DV-silencing tactic¶

5. Dra. Patricia Trujano Ruiz¶

Credentials: Doctora en Psicología; profesora titular FES Iztacala UNAM (Carrera de Psicología + Posgrado).
Cédula profesional: Not publicly displayed; SEP-registered.
Entidad federativa: Estado de México (Tlalnepantla — FES Iztacala).
University: UNAM — FES Iztacala. Faculty page https://psicologia.posgrado.unam.mx/patricia-trujano-ruiz/ ; Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WODU4TUAAAAJ&hl=es (82+ publications, 450+ citations); Dialnet https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=256319 ; ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patricia-Trujano
Stance: critique (gender / violence-research line). Trujano's body of work on violencia bidireccional, varones maltratados and the institutional response to family violence places her in the methodological-critique camp — explicitly insistent on the empirical-violence frame (LGAMVLV) rather than on AP as a clinical category.
Stance source / publications:
Trujano Ruiz, P. (2013) Violencia bidireccional y varones maltratados. Estudio en una muestra mexicana, Revista Latinoamericana de Medicina Conductual 3(2). https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rlmc/article/view/52312 ; Redalyc mirror https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/2830/283041040006.pdf ; UNAM repositorio https://repositorio.unam.mx/contenidos/ficha/violencia-bidireccional-y-varones-maltratados-estudio-en-una-muestra-mexicana-40225
Trujano Ruiz, P. (2021) El silencio también es violencia de género: hablemos de los hombres violentados por sus mujeres, Revista de Divulgación Crisis y Retos en la Familia y Pareja https://cuved.unam.mx/revistas/index.php/rrdcr/article/view/288 + ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351639061
Trujano Ruiz, P. — Varones víctimas de violencia doméstica: un estudio exploratorio acerca de su percepción y aceptación, Redalyc https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/679/67915140010.pdf
URLs: https://psicologia.posgrado.unam.mx/patricia-trujano-ruiz/ ; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WODU4TUAAAAJ&hl=es
Contact: Via UNAM Posgrado Psicología.
Verification notes: Trujano's PA-specific named output is limited — she is positioned in this directory as the UNAM-Iztacala methodological-critique voice on family violence rather than as a named PA-publication author. Stance characterization is verified-by-line-of-work, not by single AP paper. Distinguish from Laura Evelia Torres Velázquez (same FES, recognition side) — the two are at the same campus on opposite sides of the AP-clinical question.

6. Dra. Olivia Tena Guerrero¶

Credentials: Licenciada y Maestra en Psicología; Doctora en Sociología (Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM); Premio Mejor Tesis Doctoral en Estudios de Género, Instituto Mexiquense de la Mujer (2002).
Cédula profesional: Not publicly displayed; SEP-registered.
Entidad federativa: Ciudad de México.
University: UNAM — Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades (CEIICH). Posgrado Estudios de Género faculty https://genero.posgrado.unam.mx/olivia-tena-guerrero/ ; Posgrado Psicología https://psicologia.posgrado.unam.mx/olivia-tena-guerrero/ ; Páginas Personales UNAM https://www.paginaspersonales.unam.mx/academicos/datosContacto/alias:oliviatena ; ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olivia-Tena ; Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdw_l6sAAAAJ&hl=es
Stance: critique (academic-feminism / masculinities line). Coordinated the Programa Feminismo en Investigación (CEIICH, 2007-2011) and the Seminario Feminismos en América Latina (2009-2011). Research lines: mujeres policía, masculinidad, malestar, feminismos universitarios, derechos sexuales y reproductivos.
Stance source / publications:
Tena Guerrero, O. (2006) Estrategias para mantener el modelo de masculinidad en padres-esposos desempleados, Estudios de Género (SciELO) https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1405-94362006000200440
Multiple chapters in CEIICH gender-studies volumes; her work positions paternidad responsable / masculinidad within a feminist methodological frame that runs structurally counter to the AP-as-clinical-category framing.
URLs: https://genero.posgrado.unam.mx/olivia-tena-guerrero/ ; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olivia-Tena
Contact: Via UNAM CEIICH.
Verification notes: PA-specific named publications: no se ha podido verificar públicamente a single article by Tena Guerrero with alienación parental as primary subject. Her positioning is by institutional-lineage and research-line — the academic-feminism / CEIICH circuit from which the Mexican critique-of-SAP discourse is generated.

7. Cimacnoticias / Lucía Lagunes Huerta line (institutional-press critique)¶

Credentials: Cimacnoticias is the leading Mexican feminist news agency (CIMAC — Comunicación e Información de la Mujer A.C.), founded 1988; Lucía Lagunes Huerta has directed CIMAC since 2001.
Entidad federativa: Ciudad de México.
Institution: CIMAC https://cimacnoticias.com.mx/
Stance: critique (institutional-press). Cimacnoticias has carried the longest-running Mexican-press critique line on SAP as a DV-silencing tactic.
Stance source / coverage:
"Juzgados de CDMX obligados a desechar Alienación Parental" (Aug 2017) https://cimacnoticias.com.mx/noticia/juzgados-de-cdmx-obligados-a-desechar-alienacion-parental/
"SCJN avala incluir en Código Penal oaxaqueño Alienación Parental" (25 Oct 2017) https://cimacnoticias.com.mx/2017/10/25/scjn-avala-incluir-en-codigo-penal-oaxaqueno-alienacion-parental/
Continuous coverage of AI 11/2016 and the CDMX 323 Septimus derogation process.
URLs: https://cimacnoticias.com.mx/
Contact: Via CIMAC editorial channels.
Verification notes: Institutional-press entry, not a clinician. Included because Mexican PA-critique discourse cannot be source-mapped without it — Cimacnoticias is the single most consistent named-press critique voice and the closest functional equivalent to Spain's Público / Brazil's Conjur coverage of the AP question.

Middle / Methodological Camp — Family-systems / mediación familiar / mixed-stance institutional¶

8. Instituto Mexicano de la Pareja (IMP)¶

Credentials: Mexican professional psychotherapy institute (Licenciatura en Psicología Clínica, Maestría en Psicoterapia de Pareja e Individual, diplomados, talleres).
Entidad federativa: Estado de México / Naucalpan + CDMX presence.
Institution: Instituto Mexicano de la Pareja https://institutomexicanodelapareja.edu.mx/ ; X account @IMexicanoPareja ; Instagram @institutomexicanodelapareja
Stance: middle (family-systems / clinical-eclectic). IMP is the institutional anchor of the terapia familiar sistémica tradition in Mexico; treats AP-relevant dynamics under broader intervención psicoterapéutica con familias en separación without endorsing a SAP-as-syndrome reading.
Stance source: IMP institutional curriculum (psicoterapia de pareja + familiar sistémica); referral channel for AP-allegation cases that require terapia familiar rather than perito-forense framing.
URL: https://institutomexicanodelapareja.edu.mx/
Contact: Via IMP institutional channels.
Verification notes: No formal IMP institutional position on AP publicly retrievable. Included as the structural middle-camp institutional anchor by clinical-tradition lineage.

9. Mediación Familiar institutional circuit (CEMEFAM / Centros Estatales de Mediación)¶

Credentials: Mexican family-mediation centres operating under each state's Poder Judicial (notably Centro de Justicia Alternativa del TSJCDMX + Estado de México + Nuevo León + Jalisco) and the academic mediation-familiar literature.
Entidad federativa: Federal (state-by-state).
Institution: Centros estatales de mediación familiar — Redalyc overview Mediación Familiar en México. Avances en Justicia alternativa para conflictos familiares https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6558/655869549006/html/
Stance: middle (procedural / mediación-first).
URL: As above; see also state Poder Judicial mediation portals.
Contact: Via state PJ mediation centres.
Verification notes: Not a single named clinician; included as the procedural-middle institutional layer where AP allegations are most often deflected from peritaje toward mediación familiar — the Mexican equivalent of Spain's UAGD / Argentina's mediación previa circuit.

Institutional Anchors¶

10. SCJN — Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación¶

Institution type: Federal judicial — apex court; Pleno + Salas + Dirección General de Derechos Humanos y Justicia Pluricultural.
Entidad federativa: Federal (CDMX, Pino Suárez 2, Centro Histórico).
Stance: middle (procedural — invalidates automaticity, preserves figura).
Stance source:
Acción de Inconstitucionalidad 11/2016 (Oaxaca) — DOF 16 May 2018, https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5522808&fecha=16/05/2018
ADR 3859/2014 (Min. Pte. Zaldívar) — violencia familiar framing, https://www.scjn.gob.mx/derechos-humanos/sites/default/files/sentencias-emblematicas/sentencia/2022-01/ADR3859-2014.pdf
ADR 2710/2017 — modificación de guarda y custodia por impedir convivencias, https://www.sitios.scjn.gob.mx/cec/sites/default/files/page/files/2020-09/ADR%202710%202017%20V.%20P%C3%BAblica%20Modificar%20Guarda%20y%20Custodia%20por%20Impedir%20Convivencias.pdf
Tesis 2015415 (alienación parental, criterio doctrinal) https://sjf2.scjn.gob.mx/detalle/tesis/2015415
Protocolo para Juzgar con Perspectiva de Infancia y Adolescencia (Nov 2021) https://www.scjn.gob.mx/derechos-humanos/sites/default/files/protocolos/archivos/2021-11/Protocolo%20para%20juzgar%20con%20perspectiva%20de%20IA%2010nov21.pdf
SCJN Facebook official: "La alienación parental no es un síndrome y la pueden cometer los padres e incluso terceros" https://www.facebook.com/SCJNMexico/posts/528715564221468/
URL: https://www.scjn.gob.mx/
Verification notes: The Mexican institutional doctrinal anchor cited by both camps — recognition uses ADR 3859/2014's violencia familiar framing; critique uses AI 11/2016 + the SCJN's own "no es un síndrome" social-media post.

11. CNDH — Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos¶

Institution type: Federal autonomous human-rights body.
Entidad federativa: Federal (CDMX).
Stance: institutional (mixed-positions volume publisher + best-interest-of-the-child framework).
Stance source:
CNDH (2011, 2ª ed.) Alienación Parental, 317 pp. http://appweb.cndh.org.mx/biblioteca/archivos/pdfs/allienacionParental_2aEd.pdf — the single most-cited Mexican institutional volume on AP; multi-author / explicitly mixed-positions.
CNDH Niñez y Familia programa institucional https://www.cndh.org.mx/tema/194/ninez-y-familia
CNDH discussion roundtables on parental alienation + vicarious violence with collectives, public officials, academics, victims (post-2021 cycle).
URL: https://www.cndh.org.mx/
Verification notes: The CNDH 2011 volume is the single most operationally-important Mexican institutional reference in this directory — both camps cite it.

12. CDHCM — Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México¶

Institution type: State (CDMX) human-rights commission.
Entidad federativa: Ciudad de México.
Stance: critique-leaning institutional.
Stance source:
CDHCM (2015) Alienación parental https://cdhcm.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Alienacion-parental.pdf
CDHCM (2017) Reconoce la protección de los derechos humanos a través de la derogación de la mal denominada figura de "alienación parental" del Código Civil de la Ciudad de México — https://cdhcm.org.mx/2017/08/la-cdhdf-reconoce-la-proteccion-de-los-derechos-humanos-a-traves-de-la-derogacion-de-la-mal-denominada-figura-de-alienacion-parental-del-codigo-civil-de-la-ciudad-de-mexico/
CDHCM Amicus Curiae Amparo Directo 14/2020 SCJN https://cdhcm.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Amicus-Curiae-Amparo-Directo-14-2020-SCJN.pdf
URL: https://cdhcm.org.mx/
Verification notes: The single clearest critique-side institutional voice in Mexico — language: la mal denominada figura de "alienación parental". Verbatim Spanish anchor for the critique camp.

13. CELIG — Centro de Estudios Legislativos para la Igualdad de Género, Congreso de la Ciudad de México¶

Institution type: Legislative-research centre, Congreso CDMX II Legislatura.
Entidad federativa: Ciudad de México.
Stance: critique-leaning institutional.
Stance source:
CELIG (29 May 2024) Información técnica sobre alienación parental https://genero.congresocdmx.gob.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CELIG-Inform-Te%CC%81c-Alienacio%CC%81n-Parental-29-05-24.pdf — tracks state-code map, AI 11/2016 implications, and the gender-perspective critique line.
URL: https://genero.congresocdmx.gob.mx/
Verification notes: Most recent (2024) institutional Mexican-government technical brief on AP; primary source for state-code variation map.

14. Cédula Profesional / Dirección General de Profesiones (DGP-SEP) + BUSCATEC¶

Institution type: Federal credentialing registry for all Mexican psicólogos.
Stance: institutional (credentialing).
URL: https://www.cedulaprofesional.sep.gob.mx/ (BUSCATEC).
Verification notes: All Mexican entries in this directory should ideally be cédula-verified via BUSCATEC before formal outreach. Cédula numbers are generally not publicly displayed on practitioner websites; verification requires direct DGP-SEP lookup.

15. Sociedad Mexicana de Psicología (SMP) / Federación Mexicana de Psicología¶

Institution type: National psicología professional society / federation.
Entidad federativa: Federal.
Stance: institutional (no public PA-specific position).
Stance source: SMP Código Ético del Psicólogo (multiple editions) https://www.psicologia.unam.mx/documentos/pdf/comite_etica/CODIGO_ETICO_SMP.pdf — does not address AP specifically.
URL: https://www.sociedadmexicanadepsicologia.org/
Verification notes: The single most important negative finding in this directory. Unlike Brazil's CFP (Nota Técnica 4/2022 explicitly critical of SAP) or Colombia's COLPSIC (Posición Gremial Nov 2023 critical of SAP), the Sociedad Mexicana de Psicología has issued no public institutional position on alienación parental. This is the structural reason individual Mexican psicólogos in either camp operate without institutional cover.

Forensic Peritos Psicólogos — Published-author safeguard¶

Ethical-naming policy. Per the editorial rules of this directory, individual peritos psicólogos forenses adscritos a los Juzgados Familiares of CDMX / Estado de México / Jalisco / Nuevo León are not listed by name unless they also have publication footprint as authors of named clinical literature on AP. As of 2026-05-30, no individual Mexican perito-forense meeting this dual criterion has been independently verified from primary sources beyond Mendoza Amaro (already listed above under recognition camp).

Practitioners seeking perito-forense referrals should approach the following institutional channels rather than this directory: - Centro de Justicia Alternativa del TSJCDMX (CDMX) https://www.poderjudicialcdmx.gob.mx/ - TSJ del Estado de México — Instituto de Estudios Judiciales - TSJ Jalisco — peritos del Poder Judicial - AMPFS perito-referral network (recognition-camp routed) - CDHCM Defensoría Pública / asesoría jurídica gratuita (critique-camp routed)

Excluded / Unverified Entries¶

For transparency, the following names were considered and excluded:

Eduardo Carrasco García — Brief identified him as the author of an "Alienación Parental" trade textbook at Editorial Trillas. No se ha podido verificar públicamente any such book or author of that name at Trillas; primary-source searches return only the Zicavo (2010) Trillas volume + the unrelated Rocío Carrasco Spanish-media controversy. Excluded for lack of primary verification. The intended reference is most likely Nelson Zicavo (entry #3 above).
José Antonio Méndez Cabrera — Brief identified him as an Instituto Mexicano de la Pareja-line recognition author. No se ha podido verificar públicamente an individual psicólogo of that name with PA-specific publications. Excluded.
Andrea Becerra Frola — Brief identified her as a recognition-camp author. Search returns a "Becerra, C." referenced in El Síndrome de Alienación Parental: Análisis de tres casos, but no primary author site or institutional affiliation verifiable for Andrea Becerra Frola specifically. Excluded.
Velázquez de la Rosa lineage — Brief referenced a clinical lineage. No se ha podido verificar públicamente a named clinician matching this label with PA-publication footprint. Excluded.
Roxana Hernández Esquivel — Brief identified her as a UNAM-affiliated critique author. No se ha podido verificar públicamente her UNAM affiliation or PA publications. Excluded.
SCJN ADR 2424/2014 — Specific expediente number is no se ha podido verificar públicamente in primary SCJN engroses retrievable as of 2026-05-30. Substitute citations: AI 11/2016, ADR 3859/2014, ADR 2710/2017 — see SCJN entry above.
CDMX 323 Septimus "2021 repeal attempt" — Factual correction. CDMX 323 Septimus was derogated 14 July 2017, in force 4 August 2017 (ALDF unanimous 36-0). The reform-back controversies of 2021–2024 are re-introduction attempts, not repeal attempts; AP remains derogated from CDMX Civil Code as of 2026-05-30.
Federación Mexicana de Especialistas y Estudiosos de las Familias (FEM) — No se ha podido verificar públicamente an organisation with this exact name. The retrievable Mexican family-medicine federation is the Federación Mexicana de Especialistas y Residentes en Medicina Familiar (medicina familiar / family physicians, not psicología familiar). Excluded.
Dra. María Asunción Lara (UNAM / INPRFM) — Confirmed UNAM faculty but research line is depresión posparto / depresión en mujeres, not AP. Category mismatch; excluded (already excluded in LATAM file).
INMUJERES / CONAVIM / CEAV institutional PA-specific guías — No se ha podido verificar públicamente a named PA-specific clinical guía from any of these three federal bodies. Excluded for lack of sourced PA stance (consistent with LATAM file).

Structural Finding Summary¶

The single biggest structural finding: Mexico has the most layered apex-court doctrinal record on AP of any LATAM jurisdiction — and the only example of a jurisdiction that codified AP in its capital civil code (CDMX 2014), then derogated it (2017), then preserved the figura at the federal level while invalidating its automatic-consequence rule (SCJN AI 11/2016 / Oaxaca, ruled 2017, DOF 2018). The result is a uniquely fragmented landscape where individual clinicians on both sides operate without an institutional psicología-profession cover (unlike Brazil's CFP NT 4/2022 or Colombia's COLPSIC 2023 Posición Gremial). The Sociedad Mexicana de Psicología has issued no PA-specific institutional position — the single most consequential negative finding in this directory.
The recognition camp is institutionally healthier in Mexico than the critique camp at the clinical-author level, but the inverse at the human-rights-institution level. Recognition is anchored by Mendoza-Amaro / AMPFS / GARI-PA (clinician + advocacy + international-network triad); critique is anchored by CDHCM + CELIG + cimacnoticias (institutional / press / academic triad) but is thin on named individual clinician-authors with primary PA publications. The two FES Iztacala figures (Laura Evelia Torres = recognition; Patricia Trujano = critique-adjacent) are the cleanest illustration: same campus, opposite sides, both legitimate.
CDMX 323 Septimus chronology was significantly mis-dated in the briefing-set assumption. Derogation was 2017, not "nearly repealed 2021". The post-2017 reform attempts (Iniciativa Morena vs PAN/PRI dynamics of 2021–2024) are re-introduction attempts against the derogated status quo. Any directory entry on Mexico that uses 2021 as the load-bearing CDMX date is wrong.
SCJN AI 11/2016 (Oaxaca) is the single load-bearing apex-court anchor for Mexican PA jurisprudence, not ADR 2424/2014 (which is not independently verifiable as a primary source). ADR 3859/2014 (Min. Pte. Zaldívar) and ADR 2710/2017 are the two most-quoted Primera Sala companions. Substitute these citations forward.
State-code variation matters operationally more than federal doctrine. Even with CDMX derogation, AP remains in the Civil Codes of Estado de México, Aguascalientes, Coahuila, Hidalgo, Querétaro, Puebla. The same perito psicólogo working a custodia-impugnada case will encounter AP as a tipificable category in Toluca and not in CDMX — across the same Valle de México metropolis. This is the under-reported operational fact pattern in Mexican PA-clinical work.
CNDH 2011 Alienación Parental (2nd edition, 317 pp.) is the single most operationally-useful Mexican institutional reference — explicitly mixed-positions, used by both camps. Any practitioner directory in this jurisdiction that omits the CNDH volume is incomplete.