Why mothers kill : a forensic psychologist's casebook / / Geoffrey R. McKee.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); McKee, Geoffrey R.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 290 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide research: what do we know?
• Classification of maternal filicide: what do we know?
• Risk analysis and the maternal filicide risk matrix
• Prevention and risk intervention points
• Detached mother, denial type: Cathy
• Detached mother, ambivalent type: Edna
• Detached mother, resentful type: Francine
• Detached mother, exhausted type: Glenda
• Abusive/neglectful mother, recurrent type: Harriet
• Abusive/neglectful mother, reactive type: Janet
• Abusive/neglectful mother, inadequate type: Kaye
• Psychotic/depressed mother, delusional type: Barbara
• Psychotic/depressed mother, impulsive type: Susan Smith
• Psychotic/depressed mother, suicidal type: Marilyn
• Retaliatory mother: Olivia
• Psychopathic mother, financial type: Pauline
• Psychopathic mother, addicted type: Samantha
• Psychopathic mother, narcissistic type: Rhonda
• Final thoughts: what have we learned and what do we need to do?.