Filicidal impulses as an anniversary reaction to childhood incest.
Successful psychotherapy with a potentially filicidal woman is described. The case clearly illustrates how childhood incestuous experiences may later result in the formation of filicidal impulses. This occurred when the patient's daughter reached the age at which the patient herself had experienced incest (anniversary reaction).
D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011385:Projection; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods