Parental alienation is a form of child abuse that we are only beginning to recognize. Technically speaking, it’s when a child aligns with one parent and rejects its other parent for reasons that are ...

I always thought there was something half-baked in Bertolt Brecht’s formulation of the “alienation effect.” First, there is a discrepancy between what he aims for and the method he proposes to get ...

Alan D. Blotcky, Ph.D., is a clinical and forensic psychologist in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama. William Bernet, M.D., is Professor Emeritus for the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt ...

An alienation clause, commonly referred to as a due-on-sale clause, is a clause in your mortgage contract that requires you to pay the remaining mortgage balance at the sale or transfer of the home.

Dr. Ink prefers sex in the suburbs to “Sex and the City,” but this is not a column about geo-erotica. Instead, the testy Doc wants to express his resentment for all the coverage the new season of the ...