title: Insanity and filicide: women who murder their children.
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.
authors.affiliation: Evaluation Unit, Center for Forensic Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Holden
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Burland
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Lemmen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007237:Infanticide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology; D007298:Insanity Defense; D016743:Mental Competency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D015406:Single Parent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology