Matricide and schizophrenia- psychopathological, psychodynamic, and forensic aspects: a case report

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Lisieux Borba Telles¹  Antonio Egidio Nardi²  Letícia Rodrigues de Almeida²  Alexandre Martins Valença³  Milena Ferreira França⁴  Gustavo Carvalho de Oliveira⁵  Antônio Geraldo da Silva⁶ 

[1] Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil;Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Department of Psychiatry, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Brazil;Department of Psychiatry, Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil;Department of Psychiatry, University Center of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil;Department of Physician, Escola Superior de Ciências da Saúde, Brasilia, Brazil;Department of Psychiatry, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal;

关键词: violence;    homicide;    mental disorder;    psychosis;    matricide;    schizophrenia;    forensic – psychiatric practice;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1240385

 received in 2023-06-14, accepted in 2023-08-09,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Matricide is the murder of a mother by her son or daughter, a form of homicide rarely seen in psychiatric practice. A narrative review was conducted on the relationship between matricide and schizophrenia, followed by a case report in Brazil of a schizophrenic patient who murdered his mother and was submitted to forensic psychiatric assessment for criminal liability. The article discusses psychopathological, psychodynamic, and forensic aspects related to the case. The observation of ambivalent and conflictive relations between schizophrenic individuals and their mothers suggests the need for family-level interventions to resolve the understandable occurrence of emotional conflicts, which can serve as stimuli that trigger the murder.

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