
Cutting a Parent Out of Your Life Isn’t Always the Right Solution
Popular culture paints going “no contact” as the best way to deal with hard family relationships. But it’s not always the right choice
Joshua Coleman is a practicing psychologist who also conducts research on parental estrangement. In addition to publishing in peer-reviewed journals, he has written on the subject for the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, the Washington Post and other publications. He has conducted training sessions on the topic for the American Psychological Association, the department of psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine, and many other organizations. His study in collaboration with the Harris Poll was published in in Time in December 2024

Cutting a Parent Out of Your Life Isn’t Always the Right Solution
Popular culture paints going “no contact” as the best way to deal with hard family relationships. But it’s not always the right choice

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