Infanticide : psychosocial and legal perspectives on mothers who kill
This collective text discusses maternal infanticide, or the murder of a child in its first year of life by its mother. The editor of this work asks us to reach beyond rage, stretch the limits of compassion, and enter the minds of mothers who kill their babies--with the hope that advancing the knowledge base and stimulating inquiry in this neglected area of maternal-infant research will save young lives
eBook, English, ©2003
American Psychiatric Pub., Washington, DC, ©2003
1 ressource en ligne (xxiv, 272 pages) : illustrations
9781585627547, 1585627542
1079873315
Part II. Biopsychosocial and Cultural Perspectives on Infanticide
3. Postpartum disorders : phenomenology, treatment approaches, and relationship to infanticide / Katherine L. Wisner and others
4. Neurohormonal aspects of postpartum depression and psychosis / Deborah Sichel
5. Denial of pregnancy / Laura J. Miller
6. Neonaticide : a systematic investigation of 17 cases / Margaret G. Spinelli
7. Culture, scarcity, and maternal thinking / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Part III. Contemporary Legislation
8. Criminal defense in cases of infanticide and neonaticide / Judith Macfarlane
9. Medical and legal dilemmas of postpartum psychiatric disorders / Cheryl L. Meyer, Margaret G. Spinelli
10. Infanticide in Britain / Maureen N. Marks
Part IV. Treatment and Prevention
11. How could anyone do that? : a therapist's struggle with countertransference / Anonymous
12. The mother-infant relationship : from normality to pathology / Pamela Meersand, Wendy Turchin
13. The promise of saved lives : recognition, prevention, and rehabilitation / Margaret G. Spinelli