How do filicide offenders differ from other murderers?

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 08:42 in Health & Medicine

People who commit filicide, the killing of their own child, are no more psychotically disordered than other homicide offenders. Research published in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry has shown that prevention of filicide cannot remain the task of psychiatry alone, but health care and society at large must work to prevent the danger...

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