Court Rulings: Specifically Recognizing the Parental Alienation Syndrome in the US and Internationally, collected by Richard A. Gardner, M.D.   DENIAL OF THE PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME ALSO HARMS WOMAN By Richard A. Gardner, 2002 "The parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is a disorder that arises primarily in the context of child-custody disputes. Its primary manifestation is the child's campaign of denigration against a good, loving parent, a campaign that has no justification. It results from the combination of a programming (brainwashing) parent's indoctrinations and the child's own contributions to the vilification of the target parent".