Cherishing parents -- A primer of DMM theory : twelve crucial constructs -- Early childhood : learning to be safe at home -- Going to school : coping with a complex world -- Becoming an adult : loving and leaving -- Remembering the future : the process of mental representation -- How do parents affect children's representations? -- Representation and child-rearing that endangers children -- Distortions of normal child-protective behavior : under-responding to children -- Distortions of normal child-protective behavior : over-responding to children -- Distortions of perception : seeing yourself in your child -- Obscured perceptions : the disappearing child -- Distortions that substitute erroneous information for accurate information : misconstruing children as being threatened -- Distortions that substitute deadly delusional information for accurate information : misconstruing the child as the threat -- DMM integrative treatment with families -- When things fall apart -- Assessment that is relevant to differential treatment -- Functional formulation and the plan for treatment -- DMM integrative treatment : three cases -- Do unto parents as you would have them do unto their children