Parental Alienation and Factitious Disorder by Proxy Beyond DSM-5: Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses

<p>Using Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy / Factitious Disorder by Proxy and Parental Alienation as exmplars this book advances a new diagnostic category for addressing complex pathological phenomena that integrates individual characteristics and symptoms family as well as other system dynamics under one diagnosis. </p><p>The author examines why current diagnostic categories within the <em>DSM-5</em> are inadequate and provides a framework for this new category—Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnosis—to better capture the complexity of MSBP / FDBP and Parental Alienation. The book begins with case studies and other examples to make the material accessible and then proposes step-wise processes of examining family systems to determine if the phenomena exist to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty. After new diagnostic process and criteria are provided several interventions and recommendations for treatment are offered in a novel way that attends to the core aspects of these pathologies.</p><p>This text will provide practitioners professionals and researchers with a unique vantage point from which to understand and treat these pathologies.</p>