Parental Alienation Syndrome: Frye v Gardner in the Family Courts (Part 1 of 2)

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Parental Alienation Syndrome: Frye v Gardner in the Family Courts (Part 1 of 2)

Parental Alienation Syndrome: Frye v Gardner in the Family Courts (Part 1)

By Jerome H. Poliacoff, Ph.D., P.A., Cynthia L. Greene, Esq., and Laura Smith, Esq

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The Court went on to caution that "when considering the theory of expert testimony…it is vitally important to avoid the confusion engendered by reference to syndromes…At the present time experts have not achieved consensus on the existence of a psychological syndrome…use of the word syndrome leads only to confusion, and to unwarranted and unworkable comparisons to battered child syndrome".