Have you ever spoken to someone with delusions? Would you know a delusion if you encountered one? What about a person experiencing a hallucination? If you found yourself shaking your head “no” to these questions, that’s okay because…
Source: 6 Dangerous Delusions Someone You Know Might Have
There are 5-10% high conflict cases where no cooperative or consensus approach works whatsoever. Those parents may never have learned through their life experiences to respect or listen to another person’s point of view, to recognise another person’s good intentions, or to negotiate problems in a fair manner. So some people tend to fight the whole way through their lives, people with personality disorders, with ongoing violence, people who are unwilling to do something about alcohol and drug abuse etc.
In these cases, the involved professionals discuss and agree at some point that this family needs a clear cut court decision. At this stage, it may be in children’s best interests to be removed from their parents’ home and placed in alternative care.
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Part of Lloyd Neurauter’s admission in a hearing Friday morning in Steuben County Court was that he had engaged in a long-term campaign of parental alienation, manipulating daughter Karrie Neurauter in believing that he was the good, trustworthy parent and that her mother was unstable.
He also admitted to threatening to kill himself if Karrie, who has already pleaded guilty to assisting in the killing, did not go along with his plans.
Baker said that creates the possibility, which he is open to, of revisiting Karrie’s plea agreement and reducing the charge to manslaughter, given the level of mental manipulation Lloyd Neurauter admitted to.
Lloyd Neurauter, with the assistance of his daughter Karrie Neurauter, killed Michele in 2017 and disguised her death as a suicide.
Cases in which the alienating parent continues to denigrate the ex-spouse.
Some alienating spouses continue to inculcate fear and dislike of the other parent even after contact with the alienated parent has been restored.
In these cases, the child is likely to need a significant period of time, and most likely therapy as well, to break through the distorted belief system that has been inculcated.
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Alienating parents tend to have difficulty separating their own feelings from those of the child (Johnston, Walters, & Olesen, 2005 referring to their study of alignment). This blurring of boundaries is typically an expression of the pathological enmeshment found within parental alienation cases. That is, the alienating parent will be angry with the other parent, and will project this anger onto the child, truly not realizing they are doing so. This projected anger will be absorbed by the child who eventually will become alienated because of it. Generally, when a parent is focused on his or her anger at the other parent, children are more likely to experience increased hostility, inconsistent discipline, or withdrawal by the parent (Grych, 2005). However, when this anger and hostility exists within the context of alienation, the damage is much greater to the child. Under this scenario, the child tends to merge with the alienating parent as a survival mechanism and the evaluator must be aware of this dynamic and be able to identify it. This again, goes back to the concept of pathological enmeshment which is axiomatic to the alienating parent-alienated child relationship. One can simply not have alienation without it.
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“Parental alienation (or Hostile Aggressive Parenting) is a group of behaviors that are damaging to children’s mental and emotional well-being, and can interfere with a relationship of a child and either parent. These behaviors most often accompany high conflict marriages, separation or divorce…These behaviors whether verbal or non-verbal, cause a child to be mentally manipulated or bullied into believing a loving parent is the cause of all their problems, and/or the enemy, to be feared, hated, disrespected and/or avoided.”
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The experiment which follows is based on 15 years of study of alienating parents and having measured their personality traits in three areas: psychoticism, neuroticism, and empathy. The test used for this purpose was the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire which already has norms for the average population based on age and sex.
Although the sample is small consisting of 15 women and 10 men who have been found to seriously alienate their children against the other party, it is at present the only study carried out to measure objectively the personality traits of such individuals compared with the norms on psychoticism, neuroticism and empathy.
The tables which follow provides the norms and standard deviations of the non alienating normal group and compares this with the alienators on the three dimensions measured.
1. Psychoticism
Table 1
Psychoticism – age norms, means and standard deviations for different age groups for the general population, and parental alienating group (in brackets)
The results indicate that alienators appear to have a higher score on psychoticism indicating signs of mental illness of disturbance related to these symptoms.
2. Neuroticism
Table 2
Neuroticism – age norms, means and standard deviations for different age groups for the general population, and parental alienation group (in brackets)
3. Empathy
Table 3
Empathy – age norms, means and standard deviations for different age groups for the general population, and parental alienation group (in brackets)
Results
The results indicate that:
1. Alienators appear to have a higher score on psychoticism and neuroticism indicating signs of mental illness or emotional disturbance related to these symptoms.
2. Alienators also appear to have a lower score in the area of empathy than the norm of men and women assessed in the general population in the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Manual.
http://www.parental-alienation.info/publications/54-PASeriousMentalDisorder.htm
Folie à deux is a shared psychotic disorder where the delusion is shared between two individuals.
Criteria for a folie à deux as described by Dewhurst and Todd:
In the DSM -5 it is included under the section on psychotic disorders and does not exist as a separate entity.
Shared psychotic disorder, or folie à deux, is a rare delusional disorder shared by 2 or, occasionally, more people with close emotional ties. An extensive review of the literature reveals cases of folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie à famille (all family members), and even a case involving a dog. [1]
In the most recent update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), shared psychotic disorder was removed as a separate disease entity and was included in the section on other specified schizoprenic spectrum and other psychotic disorders. In the updated version the entity exists as “delusional symptoms in partner of individual with delusional disorder.” [2] According to the DSM-5, in the context of a relationship, the delusional material from the dominant partner provides content for delusional belief by the individual who may not otherwise entirely meet criteria for delusional disorder.
Shared psychotic disorders can also happen in groups of people who are closely involved with a person who has a psychotic disorder (called folie à plusiers, or “the madness of many”). For instance, this could happen in a cult if the leader is psychotic and his or her followers take on their delusions.
Experts don’t know why it happens. But they believe that stress and social isolation play a role in its development.
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