UNDER THE GUARDIAN'S Yoke: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AFFECTION AND VIOLENCE IN THE PRACTICE OF PARENTAL ALIENATION.
Keywords: Parental Alienation; Violence; Family conflict.
This study aims to question placements and imbrications that bears the Parental Alienation (PA) phenomenon. The family status change, with marriage dissolution, also made latent conflicts and tensions within family nucleus that reverberated in an important way in society. As of conflicts arising from marital relationship rupture, especially in litigious divorce cases, there is the Parental Alienation phenomenon, which, in 1985, the psychiatrist Richard Gardner called “Parental Alienation Syndrome” (PAS). Subsequently, the junction between Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome was dissociated, considering that a PAS may occur (or not) because of Parental Alienation practice. Having Parental Alienation as a theme, I fetch, through an exploratory bias, grounded, above all, in a bibliographical and responsible study with actors who experience these dynamics, such as law, judges, lawyers, social workers, psychologists, and, especially, parents and mothers who experience and/or experienced this practice, demonstrating, through their narratives, the children and adolescents suffering when this practice occurs. The general objective is to analyze the Parental Alienation practice as a form of psychological violence inferred to children who are resolved in this process. The research hypothesis understands how affection and violence intertwine in PA practice. Secondarily, I analyze experiences expressed by fathers, mothers and a daughter who suffered Parental Alienation, as well as my groundwork on “A Morte Inventada” Documentary (MINAS, 2009), which deals with the theme and allows visualizing the intertwining between affection and violence. The complexity of this phenomenon has demanded an interdisciplinary analysis, associating law, psychology, social work and anthropology, the latter contributing to critically unveil issues naturalized in society. All this knowledge, alone, is not intelligible to the dimension that comprises this dynamic. Therefore, I realized the dual character that AP holds, that is, the affection and violence intertwined in Parental Alienation practice and effectiveness.