Dr. Childress organizes the alienation process along its core psychological dynamics; the trans-generational transmission of psychological-relationship trauma. Unlike Gardner’s proposal of a new syndrome, Dr. Childress identifies the alienation dynamic within an interpersonal set of recognized and established DSM-IV TR diagnoses, centering on a Personality Disorder in the alienating parent (the...

This paper derived from a research project entitled study of the relationship between social alienation and social apathy. It was done by stratified random sampling among 366 students of Islamic Azad University (Mashhad Branch). In this regard, the variables of social alienation and social apathy were assessed by a questionnaire and the reliability was 0.84 too. The results showed that the mean...

The Parental Alienation Syndrome, so named by Dr. Richard Gardner, is a distinctive family response to divorce in which the child becomes aligned with one parent and preoccupied with unjastified and / or exaggerated denigration of the other, target parent. In severe cases, the child's once love-bonded relationship with rejected / target parent is destroyed. Testimony on Parental Alienation Synd...

This paper draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, to introduce employability as a cultural fantasy that organizes identity around the desire to shape, exploit and ultimately profit from an employable self. Specifically, the paper shows how individuals seek to overcome their subjective and material alienation by maximizing their self-exploitation through constantly enhancing their employability. This...

This paper analyses reputation-based incentives for self regulation from a principal-agent perspective, in a context of asymmetric information. Self Regulatory Organisations (SROs) have scant incentives to monitor quality and expose fraud because fraud exposure is often interpreted by Bayesian consumers as a bad signal of SRO quality. However, public regulation in parallel to Self Regulation ca...

VAN.Fans of heavy metal music have created their own subculture which. Arnetts 1996 book Metalheads: Heavy Metal Music and Adolescent Alienation argues that. Especially in adolescence and young adulthood Rentfrow Gosling, 2006. Rebellious music rock, alternative, and heavy metal was posi. Culture of alienation among heavy metal fans, which, in turn, was.Attitudes and characteristics of adolesce...

VAWnet is a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. “Given the inherent problems with even the ‘reformulated’ concept of PA, and also the fact that (1) courts and evaluators are unlikely to abandon the concept anytime soon, and (2) alienating behavior is indeed a factual reality, most often inflicted by abusive fathers, this paper offers [a] brief 7 outline of an approach ...