# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-gardner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:54:51.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-gardner"
name: "Richard Gardner"
slug: "richard-gardner"
description: "Richard Alan Gardner was an American child psychiatrist known for his work in psychotherapy with children, parental alienation and child custody evaluations. Based on his clinical work with children and families, Gardner introduced the term parental alienation syndrome (PAS), which is now \"largely rejected by most credible professionals\". He wrote 41 books and more than 200 journal articles and book chapters. He developed child play therapy and test materials that he published through his company Creative Therapeutics. Gardner was an expert witness in child custody cases."
tagline: "American child psychiatrist (1931-2003)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-04-28"
deathDate: "2003-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://richardagardner.com/"
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    title: "Richard A. Gardner"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump