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===When responses fail===
Frankly, it may be impossible to fix a child's alienation from one of their parents even when alienation has been identified by a psychiatrist. In a 1988 article by N.R. Nancy Palmer , "Legal Recognition of the Parental Alienation Syndrome," published in the ''American Journal of Family Therapy'', Palmer quotes a Florida judge who dealt with an alienation case:
<blockquote>"The Court has no doubt that the cause of the blind, brainwashed, bigoted belligerence of the children toward the father grew from the soil nurtured, watered and tilled by the mother. The Court is thoroughly convinced that the mother breached every duty she owed as the custodial parent to the noncustodial parent of instilling love, respect and feeling in the children for their father. Worse, she slowly dripped poison into the minds of these children, maybe even beyond the power of this Court to find the antidote."</blockquote>