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Welcome to IMDs...
Parental Alienation and Factitious Disorder by Proxy Beyond DSM-5: Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses by Michael R. Bütz, Ph.D. available through Routledge Publishing.
Workshops on IMDs
The list for now...
April 16th
Parental Alienation: An Introduction to Multidimensional Diagnoses
Zur Institute - www.zurinstitute.com
A Live Interactive Webinar Friday April 16th, 2021
12-1 pm Pacific Time/3-5 pm Eastern Time
May 21st
Introduction to Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses – Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy/Factitious Disorder by Proxy
Zur Institute - www.zurinstitute.com
A Live Interactive Webinar Friday, May 21st, 2021
12-1 pm Pacific Time/3-5 pm Eastern Time
Online and Available - www.imdregistration.org
Basic and Advanced Workshops on Parental Alienation
Dr. Michael Bütz has created a new way, a new concept, for identifying and understanding the challenging phenomena of Parental Alienation. In his recent book with Routledge Publishers, Parental Alienation and Factitious Disorder by Proxy Beyond DSM-5: Interrelated Multidimensional Disorders; he has advanced a new diagnostic category for addressing these complex pathological phenomena that integrates individual characteristics and symptoms, family and other system dynamics under one diagnosis – Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses. Dr. Bütz has designed a set of workshops that examines why current diagnostic categories within the DSM-5 have proven inadequate and provides the basic framework for this new diagnostic conceptualization. A conceptualization that has been designed to better capture the complexities of Parental Alienation.
The workshops will expand upon his recent original article with F. Barton Evans, Ph.D. in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, and address a more encompassing perspective from which to view such challenging phenomena. This perspective will take into account the phenomena’s historical descriptions such as Alignment, Parental Alienation Syndrome, and Alienated Children; describe the diagnostic concept of Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses; and then specifically address Parental Alienation in detail. Dr. Bütz will also expound on a new approach to the phenomena, how to identify it, and describe his proposal for a new two-stage diagnostic process.
