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La Llorona: Infanticide, Insanity, and Symbiosis

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La Llorona (Weeping Woman) is one of a series of infanticidal maternal archetypes that appear in mythology and folk legend. Like Demeter in Greek mythology, La Llorona possesses great powers, both to create life, and to destroy life.1

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

    Roberto Gomez & Jean M. Goodwin

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  1. Académie de Paris, Université René Descartes, Paris, France

    Pierre Pichot (President, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Scientific Committee) (President, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Scientific Committee)

  2. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Peter Berner (Secretary General, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Organizing Committee VII World Congress of Psychiatry Chief Editor, Congress Proceedings), Rainer Wolf  & Kenneth Thau (Secretary General, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Organizing Committee VII World Congress of Psychiatry Chief Editor, Congress Proceedings),  & 

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Gomez, R., Goodwin, J.M. (1985). La Llorona: Infanticide, Insanity, and Symbiosis. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2365-5_49

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