It’s All Your Fault: High Conflict People How Brainwashing Works on a Child’s Brain
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Dec 15, 2022 A deep look at parental alienation and whether harsh terms like brainwashing fit. They explore how neurons, synaptic pruning, and repetition shape a child’s beliefs. Discussion focuses on why ages around 9–14 are especially vulnerable. A striking case of a teen’s letter illustrates how repeated messages can produce absolute rejection.
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Parental Alienation Defined As Repeated Emotional Influence
- Parental alienation is when a child resists or refuses time with one parent, often after divorce or separation.
- Bill Eddy links this resistance to repeated undermining by the favored parent and calls it brainwashing due to brain changes from emotional repetition.
Repetition Builds Brain Superhighways In Children
- Children are born with neurons but form synapse connections through repeated experiences, which strengthen via myelination.
- Bill Eddy compares myelin sheaths to turning a cow path into a superhighway to explain how repetition cements behavior and memory.
Boy Who Ran Away After Intensely Bonding With Father
- Bill Eddy recounts a boy who shifted from loving both parents to refusing the mother by age 16 after intense paternal influence.
- The boy spent two-thirds time with mom yet gravitated to an emotionally intense father and later ran away to live with him.
