Children Held Hostage: Dealing With Programmed and Brainwashed Children

By Stanley S. Clawar and Brynne V. Rivlin M.S.S

This is the first book to provide objective methods for establishing that a child has been brainwashed by one parent against another. It is based on a ten-year study of 700 cases in the authors'... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897076281
• ISBN13: 9780897076289
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Amer Bar Assn
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Simply the best reference available

I have firsthand experience with this topic, and I have worked with many victims of this type of brainwashing in my position as director of America's Stolen Children Network. I believe I've read every book on this subject and none compare to this one. This is simply the best reference available. If you are a therapist or counselor, do not consider interacting with clients of this kind without having read this book. This is the real deal!

Hope for the hopeless

This is the most in depth book on the market for someone in a hostile custody battle involving parental alienation syndrome. The authors have addressed significant issues in great detail. They have provided useful tools to combat the issues at hand and given hope to those embroiled in the battle.

data filled book

One of the best studies of the damage of alienating parental behaviour in divorce does to children. This was a pre-cursor to Gardner's terminology of Parental Alienation Syndrome, but all that here discusses is here. This book will help many divorcedparents monitor their own behaviour, as well as help their children, with the knowledge of how the children are being impacted. Expensive, but very informative.

An eye-opening, surprising, frightening divorce possibility.

I was given this book to read after 3 months of weekly counseling with my husband. It was clear to our counselor that my stepdaughter was being programmed and brainwashed for the past 14 years by her mother and step-father of 14 years. (I've been in her life for the past 8 years). What I read was very disturbing in that it hit home in so many places. The process and definitions were clear and easily identifiable.The book helped me understand what's been going on and how it happened. In our case the history has been many many years and the programmers'/ brainwashers' support group includes the mother, stepfather, half and step-siblings and grand- parents (among others).I suspect that this behavior is very common in divorce situations (with children) in varying degrees. This book should be given to all parents who separate/divorce in hopes that they do better by their children and work together to put their children first.