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by kelseyfrog 637 days ago
In addition to Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)[1], Legal Insanity[2], Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS)[3], and Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS)[4]. These may involve the testimony of medical experts, but do not exist as formal diagnoses and are therefore not clinical labels. Instead they exist in as legal labels of persons, in order to affect some legal conclusion.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_alienation_syndrome

2. https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/when-is-a-person-legally-i...

3. https://jaapl.org/content/early/2022/06/20/JAAPL.210105-21

4. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978111862539...