Carol Black

Writer, filmmaker, observer of nameless things. Off-leash learning for all.

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@romyromy21_ Nancy McWilliams has some interesting observations about (what she calls) hysterical personality and the (usually) female child's adaptations to patriarchal power relations in the family and culture. (She also says that she herself has a hysterical personality organization:)

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@proud_penelope Well, their nervous system is probably a little activated ;)

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@psychgeist52 Sorry to deluge you, but I think it's good for all psychology professionals to be aware this is a really big can of worms with truly tragic consequences, and it is gendered in a number of ways. https://t.co/AwI65rD8RI

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@psychgeist52 "...parents engaged in high conflict litigation often present with ongoing violence and mental health problems... Separation can be the most dangerous time for not only adult victims of domestic violence but also for children." https://t.co/OYFkgo2KwW.

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@psychgeist52 The parent with the deepest pockets can hire ill-qualified psychological “experts” to support their position and the courts make no serious fact-finding effort with child safety as the priority.

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@psychgeist52 This is true, but the larger problem is that family courts are focused on parents’ rights over child safety, with the result that children are being endangered when there is in fact a parent warning the court, with evidence, of the risk.

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@DrGipps @proud_penelope Where he's focusing the responsibility for parents is on dealing with your issues ideally before you have kids, because the more unprocessed stuff you have, the more likely you are to do things that hurt your children. That's not an excuse, it's acknowledging the reality.

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@DrGipps @proud_penelope I think he does a pretty good job. There's a sort of abject acknowledgment which is just as much about the self as defensiveness. He is very clear that he hurt his son, states what he could have done that would have been better, and says, "this is what happened."

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@JonathanShedler @nowtheo It would be an argument for paid parental leave and affordable health care and other policies that reduce the enormous stresses on families of young children.

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@JonathanShedler @nowtheo I understand. I'm saying that whether or not you feel his statements are scientifically accurate, they are not inherently blaming or moralizing. If it turned out that parental stress played a role the development of attention problems, I don't see how that vilifies parents.

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@JonathanShedler @nowtheo It's hard to see how any self-aware parent could dispute that parental stress affects children, particularly infants and toddlers, in complicated ways. Speaking as a parent, this is not remotely blaming of parents. This is how difficult circumstances affect a family.

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@NA_Dellsey 😂

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@nicabm As a former estranged parent himself, Dr. Coleman comes by his biases honestly. But it is troubling to see him positioned as the sole expert in an area where his own emotional past – and his current lucrative practice – shadow his objectivity.

[Carol Black @cblack__]

@nicabm Coleman presents one face to the prestigious publications he writes for, but a very different face on “Families Divided TV,” a YouTube channel devoted to the lucrative arena of “parental alienation” claims, where he takes a very different, and much more biased, tone.