The Intention of Words: Listen Carefully
Psychological Splitting
Written by Karen Woodall, Trans-Generational Psychotherapist Treating Parental Alienation
"When a child is alienated they are suffering from induced psychological splitting which causes them to shut down part of their internalised experience of self and dismiss it as being wholly bad and negative. They then project these negative beliefs onto you as the rejected parent and hide from you so that they do not have to encounter that which they have ‘decided’ to reject."
If you are a rejected parent listen carefully because what I am about to tell you is an important piece of surviving this nightmare of losing your living child.
I write this directly after working all week with families affected by a child’s induced psychological splitting, I write it in my spare time on a Saturday morning in London. Outside the sky is low and grey and it is cold.
The words you read on this blog come from my experience of working with families and from my training of clinicians. These words are not from a book, nor are they from my imagination. They are directly from my experience of working with people affected by parental alienation.
When a child is alienated they are suffering from induced psychological splitting which causes them to shut down part of their internalised experience of self and dismiss it as being wholly bad and negative. Th