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Why Did Andrea Yates Murder Her Five Innocent Children?

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Why did Andrea Yates murder her five innocent children? What was going on in her mind while she was doing so? These questions can very simply be answered by solely looking at her life from the psychodynamic view. Andrea Yates was very emotionally and mentally unstable. For this to be seen, one must look at not only the event which took place but also dive into Andrea’s life. There is so much more to the issue than her instability the day she killed all her children. There were a series of factors which played into what may be considered her mental breaking
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