“Parental Alienation Syndrome:" Another Alarming DSM-5 Proposal
Using a medicalizing label to mask child sexual abuse
Posted Jun 07, 2011 Paula J. Caplan Ph.D. Science Isn't Golden

Excerpts "Because of the use of PAS as a tactic by many CSA perpetrators to influence decision makers and the court system, abused children have been placed in the hands of their abusers (Childress, 2006). It is estimated that "over 58,000 children a year are ordered into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following divorce in the United States" (http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/pas/1.html and that PAS was used in a large number of these cases. [2]" 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-isnt-golden/201106/parental-alienation-syndrome-another-alarming-dsm-5-proposal