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Re:Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' for... by DarylZero on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:28PM (#29728934)
A step towards what? Even in the field of psychology* it's generally accepted that personality disorders don't resolve.

[*] Psychology as an analog to medical science is also a con job. Psychotherapies don't need to prove efficacy in clinical trials like drugs do. Whenever anybody does bother to do a study like that though (again -- purely voluntary) therapy never shows itself to be very effective at doing anything. But especially not for people with personality disorders.

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Re:Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' for... by pizza234 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @05:40PM (#29731070)
Towards communicating between the two parties, which is significantly better than permanently truncating contact. But also prevent certain events/developments.

A minimum of progress could avoid, for example, the abusive parents calling the social services, and/or going to court, and/or receiving a restraining order.

There's lots of behavior that therapy can (potentially, of course) at least mitigate or teach to handle.

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