Complaint / Review
Mentally Ill Mothers Who Need Psych Help
MENTAL CASES child abusers

Divorce-related, malicious mother syndrome

Another syndrome — the divorce-related, malicious mother syndrome — has been identified in cases in which mothers not only try to alienate their children from their fathers, but are committed to a broadly based campaign to hurt the father directly (Turkat, 1995). The diagnostic criteria for this syndrome are listed in Figure 1.
Some examples of the more extreme behavior observed in such individuals include the following: making one's children sleep in a car to prove that their father has bankrupted them; burning down the house of the ex-husband: making false allegations of sexual abuse; manipulating other people to harass the ex-husband: spreading vicious lies about the ex-husband; trying to get the ex-husband fired from his job; and driving an automobile into the ex-husband's living room.
Women with this syndrome interfere chronically with visitation.