Filicide: The Murder, Humiliation, Mutilation, Denigration, and Abandonment of Children by Parents

by Aronaldo Rascovsky, Susan Hale Rogers (Translator)

This text explores the reasons for the powerful resistance of filicidal wishes. Using clinical material and referring to myth and literature, it analyses the causes and consequences of filicidal wishes and proposes methods for decreasing their all too frequent enactment.

279 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1995