Essay on Andrea Yates

2006, the New York Times published an article on the findings of the retrial of Andrea Yates and her not guilty due to insanity over the drowning deaths of her five children. (Woman Not Guilty, 2006). The court decided to commit her to a state mental hospital until medical experts decide she is not a threat to herself or anyone else. In 2002, an earlier jury rejected her claims she was psychotic and found her guilty. Yates alleged by murdering her children she actually saved them. (Woman Not Guilty…

Mrs. Yates should have snapped out of her so called “own world” and realized her son was pleading for his life because of her wrong doings. The stories about Andrea being insane and having a psychological disorder do not prove to be true. According to Dr. Puryear, “Mrs. Yates was insane at the time driven by delusions that they were going to hell and she must save them.” If her doctor was aware of her status before all this happened, why did he let her be at home? Yates should have been helped…

reasons, the Yates couple does not discuss the hallucinations with Andrea’s doctors during outpatient or inpatient treatments. Andrea was also experiencing other symptoms of schizophrenia. These symptoms include her belief that that there are cameras in her home watching her and that television cartoon characters are communicating with directly to her. She became anti social with an array of other symptoms that included flat affect, poverty of speech and loss of directedness. Andrea and Rusty…

and beliefs that her children were not developing correctly. The preacher that Rusty introduced Andrea to judged harshly that if the mother was going to Hell so would the children and also emphasized that people were accountable for children and woe to the person who might cause even one stumble. Two days before the horrific incident Andrea’s doctor warned Rusty that she should not be left alone. Andrea was lost in a dark world of depression and felt that by killing her children that she was saving…

Granted, a life in a mental institution would be no walk in the park or even enjoyable but far less intrusive than death itself or a life in the general population of penitentiary living. My conclusion is that yes, Yates is sick, but I feel a strong possibility of her understanding the wrongness of her actions to the rest of society but in her opinion acted in the greater good based on religiously psychotic feeling of heaven and hell which was a foundation of making a decision to take her children’s…

mental activity. This perspective suggests that both normal and abnormal behaviors are determined primarily by unconscious forces. According to Evan Thomas, Andrea Yates was suffering from postpartum psychosis. She was so depressed and out of it she couldn’t function while trying to do everything. They say most killers are sociopaths, but Andréa was the opposite. She didn’t act or think like a killer so it appeared. The Humanistic Perspective focuses on how people can achieve their fullest…

Andrea’s discharge the Yateses conceived their fifth child (AP, 2006). After suffering for years with severe postpartum depression and psychosis, Andrea Yates drowned her five children on June 20, 2001. The conviction of capital murder and sentence to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years was later overturned on appeal. Andrea Yates suffered from unrecognized bipolar illness, and had been treated intermittently for diagnoses of depression, postpartum depression, and schizophrenia…

Andreas experience was directly related to her own personal involvement with a traumatic event. Andrea experiences intrusion symptoms; these symptoms arrive suddenly and occur when memories of the previous traumatic event plague your life (APA, 2013). Andrea expresses that she has a solid fear of returning to work (Butcher et al. 2013). Andrea’s opposition to return to work can be considered a “persistent avoidance of stimuli” (APA, 2013, p. 271). Andrea is feeling hopeless, guilty and withdrawn…

She was witty enough to outsmart the witch, save them both, look for a way to cross the river, and find their way back to their father’s home. This characteristic of Gretel from the original story is what motivated her to become what she is in Andrea Budy’s poem. With the same wit and capabilities, she tried to escape from living in a certain standard set upon her. The poem can also show ideas about prostitution. This is evident in the lines “she learns the dough until it folds into her skin”, “she…

anger simmering in each of their faces, like a mirror." Saying that their faces is like a mirror surprises the reader as that implies that at that moment they are exactly the Same. The reader may feel this is wrong but this is through the eyes of Andrea and we believe her view is honest because she is so innocent. This really makes the reader re-think their view of Lorraine as they think maybe they have judged her too quickly. Initially, Andrea's stepfather is the person labelled as the villian…