Insanity and filicide: women who murder their children.

New Dir Ment Health Serv

Evaluation Unit, Center for Forensic Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Published: January 1997

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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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/yd.23319960105DOI Listing

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