Table of Content * Acknowledgments * Preface: Effi Briest * 1. Introduction to induced parent-child alienation (PAS) and some references to international literature * 2. Definition, symptoms and alienation techniques in PAS * 2.1 Definition * 2.2 Symptoms * 2.3 Important alienation techniques * 3. Psychiatric and psychosomatic effects of PAS induction on affected adult children of divorce * 4. Relational dynamics and psychodynamic background in PAS in the context of separation and divorce7 * 4.1 Among the programming parents * 4.2 Among the excluded parents * 4.3 Among the programmed children * 5. Outlook and concluding remarks * 6. Abstract * 7. Notes