The tenacious resistance to the concept of parental alienation
Since its introduction, the concept of parental alienation has met with a solid resistance from clinicians as well as the general public. The concept refers to the situation where a child, often after parental separation, rejects one of his parents without justifiable reason. The author proposes the idea that this resistance has to do with the association that exists between this concept and the one concerning false allegations of child sexual abuse. The opponents of the concept suspect it to be a new version of a presumed denial of intra-familial sexual abuse.