IVE KILLED MY CHILD - EXPERIENCES WITH GR AVE DEPRESSION AMONG MOTHERS FROM THE POINT-OF-VIEW OF PSYCHIATRY AND FORENSIC MEDICINE FOLLOWINGA SUDDEN INFANT DEATH

Authors
SATERNUS KS THIEL A KASTNERVOIGT M
Citation
Ks. Saternus et al., IVE KILLED MY CHILD - EXPERIENCES WITH GR AVE DEPRESSION AMONG MOTHERS FROM THE POINT-OF-VIEW OF PSYCHIATRY AND FORENSIC MEDICINE FOLLOWINGA SUDDEN INFANT DEATH, Nervenarzt, 69(1), 1998, pp. 53-58
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Nervenarzt → ACNP
ISSN journal
00282804
Volume
69
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
53 - 58
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-2804(1998)69:1<53:IKMC-E>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Grief and depressive syndrome belong to normal reaction by parents aft er a sudden infant death (SID). In two following we report on two case s from the point of view of psychiatry and forensic medicine in which, subsequent to SID, mothers reacted with extremly grave depression and accused themselves of having killed Che child. Furthermore, some reco mmendiations are given for the care of parents affected.