You Are in a Captured System

What am I going to do with you?

You are struggling to find a solution in a system that provides no solution. You are searching, looking, struggling. You’re hoping someone, the courts or the mental health professionals, will see.

They don’t see. You locate me through the Internet. I understand. You read what I say and the pathology makes sense. Maybe I can help you, maybe I can help them see.

I can if they want to see… but they don’t want to see. You are in a captured system and they are financially exploiting you. The mental health professionals – called “forensic custody evaluators” – make money from the problem not the solution.

You are trapped without escape.

Stages of Your Destruction

You are a parent in one of three stages of destruction.

Beginning Phase:

You are in the Beginning, you are new entry parents and are you are disoriented by both the pathology and the legal system. You’re searching the Internet and you run across me.

You’re wondering what you should do, not realizing there is no solution – none. There is a solution, you just can’t get it because the mental health people around you are – ignorant – incompetent – apathetic – unethical.

They are the worst of the worst – that’s what happens when there is no oversight or regulation. Where are the licensing boards? Nowhere to be seen. You think the system is sane – it’s not.

You are in a captured system – called “regulatory capture” by Stigler (Exhibit 10: Institutional Capture – Betrayal). It is institutional betrayal of you and your children (Freyd) – it’s when the one who should protect… doesn’t.

Diagnosis Guides Treatment:

Throughout healthcare, diagnosis guides treatment (the treatment for cancer is different than the treatment for diabetes). You need a proper diagnostic assessment to the appropriate differential diagnosis for each parent (Exhibit 24: Differential Diagnostic Questions)… but you can’t get one.

Your ex-spouse has a major psychiatric disorder, called a “persecutory delusion” – a fixed and false belief that they, or the child, is being “malevolently treated in some way” (Exhibit 7: Walters & Friedlander).

From the APA: “Persecutory Type: delusions that the person (or someone to whom the person is close) is being malevolently treated in some way.” (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).

But you can’t get a diagnostic assessment for a possible persecutory delusion in your ex-spouse because you’re in a captured system – captured by forensic custody evaluators who are – ignorant – incompetent – apathetic – unethical.

In the Beginning Phase you still think you’re in a sane world, but you’re not, you are in a captured system that will destroy the lives of your children and your life.

Middle Phase

The Middle Phase begins about two-years into the family courts. This is when you start to encounter the full dysfunction of the mental health system.

Forensic Custody Evaluation

Your entry into the dysfunctional mental health system begins with a forensic custody evaluation. It will take approximately six- to nine-months to complete for a cost of around $20,000 to $40,000. It will solve nothing.

In fact, a forensic custody evaluation will make things much worse. They are “dangerous” and “harmful to children” (NY Blue-Ribbon Commission on Forensic Custody Evaluations, 2021, p. 4).

Forensic custody evaluations “lack scientific or legal value” (NY Blue-Ribbon Commission on Forensic Custody Evaluations, 2021, p. 4).

Forensic custody evaluations produce “defective reports” that lead to “potentially disastrous consequences for parents and children” (NY Blue-Ribbon Commission on Forensic Custody Evaluations, 2021, p. 4).

From NY Blue Ribbon Commission: “In some custody cases, because of lack of evidence or the inability of parties to pay for expensive challenges of an evaluation, defective reports can thus escape meaningful scrutiny and are often accepted by the court, with potentially disastrous consequences for the parents and children.” (p. 4)

From NY Blue Ribbon Commission: “By an 11-9 margin, a majority of Commission members favor elimination of forensic custody evaluations entirely, arguing that these reports are biased and harmful to children and lack scientific or legal value. At worst, evaluations can be dangerous, particularly in situations of domestic violence or child abuse.” (p. 4)

You are surrounded by ignorant and incompetent mental health professsionals, they are apathetic and unethical (violations to Standards 2.01, 2.04, 9.01, and 3.04 of the APA Ethics Code).

An Experiment on You

They are experimenting on you and your children with a new approach to assessment called a “forensic custody evaluation” that they devised without IRB review (Institutional Review Board), without a risk-benefit analysis, without protections for a vulnerable population, and in violation of all three principles of the Belmont Report.

You’re trapped. It’s called “regulatory capture” (Stigler) and “institutional betrayal trauma” (Smith & Freyd: Institutional Betrayal Trauma, American Psychologist)

You’re wondering what you should do, not realizing there is no solution – none.

Dr. Childress Consultation

You can bring the defective mental health information to me and I can help to correct it, but you still need treatment and you can’t get that from the ignorant, incompetent, and unethical mental health professionals.

The solution is available immediately – diagnosis guides treatment (Exhibit 24: Differential Diagnostic Questions). You just can’t get it.

End Phase

As you enter the End Phase, your children are aging out of the system and you’re wondering what to do now as they enter adulthood.

You’re trying to figure out what you should do now that your life and the lives of your children have been destroyed by your pathological ex- and the ignorant, incompetent, and unethical psychologists (violations to Standards 2.01, 2.04, 9.01, 3.04), not realizing there is no solution – none.

You’ll walk away to do what closing you can find. Not healing. Just closing. You are traumatized – “institutional betrayal trauma” (Freyd).

The destruction of your children’s lives and of your life has been complete because of the ignorant, incompetent, apathetic, and unethical psychologists in the family courts – and no one cares.

What Do I Do with You?

So what do I do with you? How can I stop this from happening to you and your children.

I can tell you the solution but no one wants a solution. The solution is to first – first – first – stop forensic custody evaluations. You need an appropriate diagnostic assessment (Exhibit 24: Differential Diagnostic Questions)

However, you can’t stop them because… all the forensic custody evaluators would lose their careers and the mental health system will collapse because there are no competent mental health professionals in the family courts.

We are headed for a huge scandal. Huge. Massively huge.

Millions of abused children huge. A million abused parents huge.

Seriously. I’m in awe of its magnitude. When is it coming? Five years is my ballpark estimate, that seems to be the timing from where I am and where you are.

That’ll likely be right about the time I die. Once that happens… I don’t care what happens.

So my question is what do I do in the meantime? Write. Watch the ongoing destruction of lives while we wait I suppose.

I’ll post YouTube videos on the solution. I already have. All the information is entirely available. I’ll post more, I’ll just keep it churning.

I’ll go over to Substack and you can subscribe to me. On Substack I’ll create clean sets of differet video series. Once a new-entry parent locates me on YouTube they can come to Substack for the video series.

Then I’ll offer these video series on the open Internet as online courses, one for parents, one for mental health professionals, one for attorneys.

That means I should start building-out my subscription Substack channels, I’ll create one for the Family Courts and one for AI Psychology.

I’ll write books and articles too.

What about you, what should you do? There is nothing you can do. You’re in a captured system.

You can contact your state legislators. You can generate a class action lawsuit (Exhibit 23: Claude Analysis Institutional Betrayal & Resolution).

You can contact me to provide “meaningful scrutiny” of their “defective reports” in hope of avoiding the “potentially disastrous consequences to parents and children” that their ignorance, incompetence, and unethical practice creates.

Other than that, there’s actually nothing you can do but watch as the lives of your children and your own lives are destroyed by the ignorant, incompetent, apathetic, and unethical psychologists in the family courts.

Solution is Easy

The solution is easy – diagnosis and treatment – ethical practice.

It’s available immediately – always has been.

A huge-huge scandal is coming. The forensic psychologists conducted an experiment on you and your children – their experiment failed and millions of children have been psychologically abused by a pathological parent for decades as a result.

Stigler: regulatory capture. Freyd: institutional betrayal trauma.

Forensic custody evaluations need to end. That’s the start o the solution.

I’ve got a lot of writing to do.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
WA 61538481 – CA 18857