Estrangement
Estrangement Ideology: Supporting the Estranged – Family Estrangement by Tam S.
Estrangement as virtue, reconciliation as violence—family redefined through unilateral severance and therapeutic authority.
Estrangement
Controlling the Narrative: Estrangement as Information Warfare
A discussion of how we can reclaim the family from the grip of information warfare.
Elder Abuse
Estrangement Ideology – Part 43. The Rewards and Traps of Online Estrangement Communities
What Estranged Adult Children gain from online communities and how mutual validation reinforces ideological entrenchment.
Elder Abuse
Estrangement Ideology – Part 42. Alienation
Examining the role of some therapists and online forums as alienating influences.
Elder Abuse
Estrangement Ideology: An Introduction to the Series
A series of articles aimed at broadening understanding the shift in family estrangement for parents and others involved.
Elder Abuse
Estrangement Ideology – Part 41. Can Estrangement Ever Be the Right Choice?
When is estrangement a justified and necessary response to serious harm, rather than being substantially ideologically or socially driven—and is this even a thing?
Elder Abuse
Estrangement Ideology – Part 40. Do Adult Children Truly Know Their Parents?
Exploring the limits of adult child perception, the illusion they truly understand their parents and solidifying impact of estrangement.
Estrangement
Estrangement Ideology – Part 39. Issendai: Shaping The Narrative
A look at Issendai's and like-minded writers' influence on the transmission of language and ideological framing in estrangement dynamics.
Elder Abuse
Estrangement Ideology – Part 38. The Grandparents
The consequential cut-off of grandparents: A self-perpetuating cycle of disconnection.
Elder Abuse
Estrangement Ideology – Part 32. The Unfillable Void
How the demand for unachievable and ill-defined "accountability" and a "full apology" creates a void that may never be filled.
Elder Abuse
Estrangement Ideology – Part 31. Rewriting History
Differing versions of history become a weapon wielded on both sides of the estrangement divide.
Elder Abuse
Estrangement Ideology – Part 30. Got Any Flying Monkeys?
How pop-psychology constructs a villainous support network to justify "no contact."