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Psychiatry’s Phillip Resnick discussed mother who killed 3 children

Mother says she killed 3 children with help from 16-year-old

Phillip Resnick

Los Angeles Times: Phillip Resnick, professor of psychiatry, said it’s rare for mothers to kill their children, but it’s even more uncommon for mothers to solicit the assistance of another of her children in the murder. “A mother may develop psychosis and a son may buy into it,” he said. “Folie à deux is a shared delusional disorder.”