Mdedge Psychcast

Susan Hatters Friedman, MD, joins Lorenzo Norris, MD, host of the MDedge Psychcast and editor in chief of MDedge Psychiatry, to talk about family murder.  Dr. Hatters Friedman is the Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She also is professor of pediatrics and reproductive biology, and adjunct professor of law at Case Western. In addition, Dr. Hatters Friedman is editor of Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate, which was written by the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry’s Committee on Psychiatry & Law. Show notes by Jacqueline Posada, MD, consultation-liaison psychiatry fellow with the Inova Fairfax Hospital/George Washington University program in Falls Church, Va. Overview of family murder  Family murder is defined as situations in which any member of a family kills another family member. It encompasses a wide scope of violence that includes intimate partner homicide; infanticide, including purposeful feticide; neonaticide (murde