Insanity and Filicide: Women Who Murder Their Children

Overview

Journal New Dir Ment Health Serv

Specialties Health Services
Psychiatry

Date 1996 Jan 1

PMID 8935820

Citations 4

Authors

C E HOLDEN

A S Burland

C A Lemmen

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Abstract

A mother who murders her child challenges the empathic skills of evaluating clinicians. In this chapter, original research, supplemented by detailed case histories, compares women adjudicated criminally responsible for the murders of their children with those adjudicated not guilty by reason of insanity.

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