Feeling distant or disconnected from loved ones, certain environments, or even yourself can be a symptom of alienation. Understanding its causes may help you cope. Alienation occurs when a person ...

A distraught divorced mother reports that when her formerly loving daughter returns from vacations at her father's house, the child treats her with disrespect and hostility. A divorced father of a ...

Every day, I receive emails from alienated parents and extended family members distraught over the suffering of their children—as well as their own grief and frustration at their powerlessness to ...