"Bütz integrates a wide breadth of theory and knowledge for this valuable contribution to the expanding literature on parental alienation and factitious disorder by proxy. Bütz elucidates a model derived from systems theory to situate both phenomena within the overarching construct of interrelated multidimensional diagnoses. This model provides a multi-tiered framework that accommodates categorical and dimensional aspects of individual and family system dynamics. Thought-provoking and sure to generate additional scholarship and debate in the field."
Richard A. Warshak, PhD, author of Divorce Poison: How To Protect Your Family From Bad-mouthing and Brainwashing. He is a former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and best known for his expertise and publications on child custody, shared parenting, and parental alienation.
"By taking the whole of the pathological dynamics that create Factitious Disorder by Proxy and Parental Alienation, Michael Bütz has provided an unflinching set of challenges to our healthcare and legal systems in a creative and thoughtful read. This book is a potent reminder of the intrafamilial dynamics that can affect families."
Ted Epperly, MD, President and CEO Family Medicine Residency of Idaho; Clinical Professor University of Washington School of Medicine; Past President and Board Chair American Academy of Family Physicians.
"In his newest book, Michael Bütz has taken yet another important step in bringing the critical importance of complexity this time to the literature on parent alienation. In doing so, he goes well beyond the subject into a seminal discussion on diagnosis that is lightyears ahead of current thinking."
F. Barton Evans, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (ret.) East Tennessee State University. He has also coauthored Forensic Psychological Assessment in Immigration Court and The Handbook for Forensic Rorschach Assessment.
"Michael Bütz has transformed the understanding of how illness can be transferred in a brilliant new paradigm that is relevant to healers in all facets of clinical work and challenges existing notions that continue to pathologize children and families. Providers in the psychological arena will be given a new insight into the meaning of transference in the therapeutic relationship as Bütz delineates modern ways of diagnosing and treating a serious ailment that has collective ramifications."
Eduardo Duran, PhD, clinical psychologist and author of Healing the Soul Wound: Counseling with American Indians and Other Native Peoples, Buddha in Redface, and coauthor of Native American Postcolonial Psychology.
"Dr. Bütz has done a great service for the field of psychology and beyond. In this masterful text, he provides both historical context and a philosophical/epistemological knowledge-base which is unparalleled in the literature. Further, he has a unique sense of psychopathology and aptly uses metaphors, case studies, and examples to reach his cogent conclusion that, in order to affect real change, IMD dynamics require policies, procedures, and action across healthcare, legal, and governmental spheres of influence. Clinicians, researchers, caseworkers, and those within the court system will find this text to be of enormous heuristic and applied value. I strongly urge you to read it, process it, and use it. It is a real winner!"
Philip Bornstein, PhD, clinical psychologist and former Professor at University of Montana, Missoula with over 150 papers and publications. Coauthor of Marital Therapy: A behavioral Communications Approach and coeditor of The Handbook of Clinical Behavior Therapy with Children.
"Bütz integrates a wide breadth of theory and knowledge for this valuable contribution to the expanding literature on Parental Alienation and Factitious Disorder by Proxy. Bütz elucidates a model derived from systems theory to situate both phenomena within the overarching construct of interrelated multidimensional diagnoses. This model provides a multi-tiered framework that accommodates categorical and dimensional aspects of individual and family system dynamics. Thought-provoking and sure to generate additional scholarship and debate in the field."
Richard A. Warshak, PhD, author of Divorce Poison: How To Protect Your Family From Bad-mouthing and Brainwashing. He is a former clinical professor of Psychiatry at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and best known for his expertise and publications on child custody, shared parenting, and Parental Alienation
"By taking on the whole of the pathological dynamics that create Factitious Disorder by Proxy and Parental Alienation, Michael Bütz has provided an unflinching set of challenges to our healthcare and legal systems in a creative and thoughtful read. This book is a potent reminder of the intrafamilial dynamics that can affect families."
Ted Epperly, MD, President and CEO, Family Medicine Residency of Idaho; Clinical Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine; Past President and Board Chair, American Academy of Family Physicians
"In his newest book, Michael Bütz has taken yet another important step in bringing the critical importance of complex interactions, this time to the literature on parent alienation. In doing so, he goes well beyond the subject into a seminal discussion on diagnosis that is lightyears ahead of current thinking."
F. Barton Evans, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (ret.), East Tennessee State University. He has also coauthored Forensic Psychological Assessment in Immigration Court and The Handbook of Forensic Rorschach Assessment
"Michael Bütz has transformed the understanding of how illness can be transferred in a brilliant new paradigm that is relevant to healers in all facets of clinical work and challenges existing notions that continue to pathologize children and families. Providers in the psychological arena will be given a new insight into the meaning of transference in the therapeutic relationship as Bütz delineates modern ways of diagnosing and treating a serious ailment that has collective ramifications."
Eduardo Duran, PhD, clinical psychologist and author of Healing the Soul Wound: Counseling with American Indians and Other Native Peoples, Buddha in Redface, and coauthor of Native American Postcolonial Psychology
"Dr. Bütz has done a great service for the field of psychology and beyond. In this masterful text, he provides both historical context and a philosophical/epistemological knowledge-base which is unparalleled in the literature. Further, he has a unique sense of psychopathology and aptly uses metaphors, case studies, and examples to reach his cogent conclusion that, in order to affect real change, IMD dynamics require policies, procedures, and action across healthcare, legal, and governmental spheres of influence. Clinicians, researchers, caseworkers, and those within the court system will find this text to be of enormous heuristic and applied value. I strongly urge you to read it, process it, and use it. It is a real winner!"
Philip Bornstein, PhD, clinical psychologist and former Professor at University of Montana, Missoula, with over 150 papers and publications. Coauthor of Marital Therapy: A Behavioral Communications Approach and coeditor of The Handbook of Clinical Behavior Therapy with Children
