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NOTE-TAKINGAmerican JusticeAndrea Yates Story
Andrea & Rusty Yates and
their five children
Andrea Yates
drowned her five children
• Infanticide- is the intentional killing of
infants
Andrea Yates
• Postpartum depression (PPD) is a type
of clinical depression which can affect
women, and less frequently men,
typically after childbirth
Psychotic
 Psychotic Disorder
 person loses contact with reality
 experiences irrational ideas and
distorted perceptions
Andrea Yates
• Postpartum psychosis is a term that
covers a group of mental illnesses with the
sudden onset of psychotic symptoms
following childbirth.
• A typical example is for a woman to
become irritable, have extreme mood
swings and hallucinations, and possibly
need psychiatric hospitalization. Often, out
of fear of stigma or misunderstanding,
women hide their condition.[1]
Hallucinations
 Hallucinations
 sensory experiences without sensory
stimulation; may be auditory or visual
 nearly always abnormal and can affect
any of the five senses
 auditory and visual hallucinations are
the most common
Delusions
 Delusion
 is a false belief(s) that cannot be
explained by the patient’s culture or
education that may accompany
psychotic disorders
 the patient cannot be persuaded that
the belief is incorrect despite evidence
to the contrary
Andrea Yates had
these symptoms
too:
 lack of speech [alogia]
 lack of emotion or reduced emotional
expression [flat affect]
 loss of motivation or the will to do
things [avolition]
 loss of feelings of pleasure
[anhedonia]
Psychopharmacology:
antipsychotic medications
 Haldol
 also used to treat schizophrenia and
other psychotic episodes likepost-partum psychosis
Depression:
SPECT scan
Depressed Brain: underside
Normal Brain
surface view
Blue & purple equals low activity