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Richard A. Warshak, Ph.D.

Securing Childrens Best Interests While Resisting the Lure of Simple Solutions

Dr. Richard Warshaks groundbreaking research, trenchant challenges to gender stereotypes and

passionate advocacy for children have made him one the worlds most respected authorities on

divorce, child custody, and the psychology of alienated children.

For 36 years Dr. Warshak has examined assumptions and practices in family law in the light of

logic and scientific data. His studies on father and mother custody, remarriage, relocation,

parenting plans for young children, the approximation rule, childrens preferences in custody

disputes, and parental alienation appear in 11 professional books and 46 articles and are cited

often in the professional literature and in case law and legislatures throughout the world. Hismost recent work is a law review article analyzing judicial discretion, the best-interest standard,

and alternative custody presumptions.

Dr. Warshak is a graduate of Cornell University, Clinical Professor of psychology at the University

of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and a member of the Editorial Board of three

professional journals. He was a White House consultant on child custody and one of 60 top

experts invited to participate in an American Bar Association family law reform initiative. His

amicus brief on relocation, endorsed by the leading authorities on divorce, influenced a

landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of the State of California.

Dr. Warshaks first book, THE CUSTODY REVOLUTION (Simon & Schuster, 1992), advocated mediation

of custody disputes and greater father involvement, two reforms that have since become

mainstream in U. S. law and practice. His second book, DIVORCE POISON:HOW TO PROTECT YOUR

FAMILY FROM BAD-MOUTHING AND BRAINWASHING (HarperCollins, 2002/2010), is translated in six

languages and is the worlds best-selling resource on parental alienation. He appears in the PBS

documentary KIDS AND DIVORCE, and is co-author of a DVD for children and parents titled, WELCOME

BACK PLUTO:UNDERSTANDING,PREVENTING,AND OVERCOMING PARENTAL ALIENATION. As an international

media guest commentator Dr. Warshak has appeared on all major television networks in the

U.S., and in Canada and England. His work has been featured in international print media in the

U.S., Canada, England, Scotland, Italy, Germany, Columbia, and New Zealand, including the NewYork Times, Washington Post, London Sunday Telegraph, Il Giornale (Italy), Macleans (Canada),

and Time magazine.