Parental Alienation Syndrome Leading 1st December 2006 An unsafe and unsound theory of human behaviour which is leading to Perverse Reversal of Child Custody placing children at serious risk of harm Charles Pragnell is an Expert Witness in Child Protection in the U.K. and Australasia and is a Child/Family Advocate.

Excerpts "Richard Ducote an attorney at law in New Orleans stated in 2003 of Gardner and his PAS theory that “ PAS is a bogus, pro-paedophiliac fraud concocted by Richard Gardner.I was the last attorney to cross-examine Gardner in Patterson New Jersey. …He has not been Court appointed to do anything for decades. The only two appellate Courts in the country who have considered the question of whether PAS meets the Frye test, i.e. whether it is generally accepted in the scientific community, said it does not. Gardner and his theory have done untold damage to sexually and physically abused children and their protective parents. PAS has been rejected by every reputable organisation considering it. In a Florida case in which I was recently involved, when the Judge insisted on a Frye Hearing, Gardner simply did not show up. Perhaps because he finally realised that the entire nation was on to his scam, he committed suicide on May 25. Let’s pray that his ridiculous, dangerous PAS foolishness died with him.”

https://www.thetcj.org/in-residence/parental-alienation-syndrome-leading