The Crown has alleged Ms Dickason murdered the children in a ‘calculated’ means because she was pissed off, offended and resentful of them. Mr McRae stated Dr Metoui ‘needed to be careful with the data’ Ms Dickason gave him. While the killings had been ‘brutal, callous, decided and deliberate’, Dr Metoui informed the court that, in his opinion, Ms Dickason can’t be held criminally accountable. ‘She at all times had vulnerabilities in her earlier life since adolescence in her early 20s, and these in themselves are threat components for creating postpartum depression. ‘Losing her first child at 18 weeks gestation, antenatal anxiety after which postnatal depression that remained persistent – clinically referred to as the intermittent symptom pattern.
This brought in a new conception of health, not as a state, but in dynamic phrases of resiliency, in different words, as “a useful resource for residing”. Mental, mental, emotional and social …
