Motivational Beliefs behind Parental Alienation

Alan Blotcky is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, USA. He has a Private Practice in Birmingham and works as a forensic psychologist.
In this interview Alan talks about his research on Motivational Beliefs behind Parental Alienation.
He studied 40 cases where an alienating parent had been identified. Alan analyzed verbatim quotes made by one parent against the other parent; positive, neutral and negative. He worked with the negative comments and identified 80 motivational believes about the other parent which he categorized into six categories:
1 - vindictiveness
2 - fear
3 - jealousy
4 - excessive over-protectiveness of the child
5 - reenactment of family of origin issues
6 - parents own psychopathology
This interview was recorded on location at the International Conference of Shared Parenting in Athens 2023.
Produced by Equal Parenting Iceland, Foreldrajafnrétti.
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Music: Fresh Fallen Snow by Chris Haugen
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[@jimmytoffali9861]

there is also the systemic motivation, that the alienating parent receives more money in Child Maintenance payments from the other parent, due to having the child/children full time by preventing contact. Self serving vindictiveness

[@andreaw3844]

If the motivation of the alienating patrent is his own psychopathology, that in turn triggers his vindictiveness, do you really think that therapy would work with him?

[@emmatanner2017]

Are you for hire in Indiana?

[@bjorncedervall5291]

Wilhelm Reich wrote 3-4 lines about the motive in his 1945 version of "Character Analysis". Here is from the next edition (1949, page 521):
""The welfare of the child is always a spurious, and as the results show, unfulfilled motive. The real motive is to wreak revenge on the partner by depriving him or her of the pleasure of the child. Hence, in the fight for the child, one partner resorts to defamation of the other, whether he or she is healthy or sick. The absence of any consideration for the child is brought out by the fact that his love for the other parent is not taken into account. As means of alienating the child from one or the other parent, he is told that his mother or his father is an alcoholic or is mentally ill, a statement which usually does not correspond to the facts of the case. The result is that the child is the one who suffers most; the motive is revenge on the partner and domination of the child. Genuine love for the child is not an issue.""