Andrea's first psychiatrist, Dr. Eileen Starbranch, testified during her trial that she urged her and Rusty not to have any more children, as it would "guarantee future psychotic depression". They conceived their fifth and final child Mary approximately 7 weeks after her discharge. With the persuasion of Rusty, Andrea stopped taking Haldol in March 2000 and gave birth to her daughter, Mary, on November 30, 2000. She showed great progression, she seemed to be coping well until the death of her father on March 12, 2001. Andrea then stopped taking medication, maimed herself, and read the Bible anxiously. She also stopped feeding Mary and became so incapacitated that she required immediate medical hospitalization. On April 1, 2001 she came under the care of Dr. Mohammed Saeed whom treated and released her. On May 3, 2001, Rusty stated she degenerated back into a "near catatonic" state and filled the bathtub in the middle of the day; she would later confess to police that she had planned to drown the children that day, but had decided against doing it then. Andrea was hospitalized the next day after a scheduled doctor visit; her psychiatrist Dr. Saeed assumed she was probably suicidal and had filled the tub to actually drown herself. Rusty Yates wanted to file criminal charges against Dr. Saeed for …show more content…
The unconscious aspect of the mind is what makes the person to react automatically and this may lead to neuroses” (Denno, 2003). Most of the unconscious aspects of a person, as in the case of Andrea Yates, arises due to the relation with id, ego and superego. “Additionally, Freud stated that the term ‘ego-defense’ described anything that individuals use to safeguard their egos and manage anxiety-denial” (Denno, 2003). Andrea Yates was in the defense of denial. She saw her children had been doomed to suffer in hell and so aimed to help them. She blamed herself for this condition and so aimed to make it