The DSM-5, published by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013, includes five diagnoses that describe different aspects of parental alienation:
- Parent–child relational problem (p. 715)
- Child affected by parental relationship distress (p. 716) — a new diagnosis in DSM-5
- Child psychological abuse (p. 719) — another new diagnosis in DSM-5
- Delusional symptoms in partner of individual with delusional disorder (p. 122), formerly folie à deux
- Factitious disorder imposed on another (p. 325), formerly Munchausen syndrome by proxy
Sources: Bernet, W., Wamboldt, M. Z., Narrow, W. (2016). Child Affected by Parental Relationship Distress. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 55:571–579.
