Commentary: Toward a psychodynamic understanding of filicide - Beyond psychosis and into the heart of darkness

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 505-508

  Papapietro, Daniel J ^a,b   Barbo, Elizabeth ^b  

^a Whiting Forensic Institute   (United States)

^b Young Adult Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILIXIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NARCISSISM; PARENT; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOPATHY; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHILD; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS;

EID: 29444445673     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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