Murder, womb-cutting not so uncommon for women who’ll stop at nothing

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'While members of the psychiatric community were quick to point out that each case is different, they were just as fast in identifying a common thread: “a desperate longing for a child combined with either psychopathic tendencies or a psychotic break, which creates a delusional belief that an infant must be claimed, at any cost, to be ‘returned’ to its ‘rightful’ mother.

The case of Lisa Montgomery details the delusional belief from which some women suffer. Montgomery, who was 36 at the time and the mother of two teenagers, was charged – in 2004 - with a kidnapping that resulted in murder.
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Some women feel that the ability to be pregnant and give birth is very essential to being a successful woman,” Dr. Gail Saltz, an associate professor of psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital, told the New York Times in 2004. “The inability to maintain a pregnancy can be devastating. Add fluctuating hormones, and you can have someone who develops a post-partum depression and a psychosis that could drive them to do completely out-of-character, irrational things.”

Commenting on the Lisa Montgomery case, Dr. Jack Gorman, of the department of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, said: “In these cases a woman might have a delusion that ‘that’s my baby in that woman, she’s stolen it, and if I don’t rescue it she’s going to kill it’, and the motivation is so overwhelming that you just lose contact with reality.”