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- Title
INFANTICIDIO E FIGLICIDIO: UNA PANORAMICA SULLO STATO ATTUALE DELL'ARTE.
- Authors
Ceccoli, Laura; Corbelli, Laura
- Abstract
Objective: The authors have chosen to explore the phenomena of infanticide and filicide, performing the conceptual differences and identifying certain psychopathological definitions which become important in the clinical domain, given the lack of models to the state of shared interpretations and lack of existing literature. It was examined the psychopathological development that leads to such forms of intra-familiar violence of post - partimi, in light of some psychodynamic hypotheses (e.g. Kohut, Kernberg, Resnick) and multifactorial effect. Some proposals of scientific research in the field of prevention and rehabilitation (e.g. Kunst) are analysed. The survey was conducted taking into account the specific physical changes-hormones, their pregnancy and childbirth, and the emotional investment that displace significant psychological dynamics within the dyad mother-child. Method: Critical examination of the literature and research in the international field and qualified magazines. Results: To give the definition of infanticide it is necessary that the crime is made between six months and one year of age of the child. Conversely, when the crime occurs after the one year of age of the victim child it emerges the offense of filicide. The psychopathological configurations that unbalance the mothers personality with frequent occurrence are: mood disorders (Maternity Blues, postpartum depression), puerperal psychosis, the syndrome of Munchausen by proxy, the Battered Child Syndrome, personality disorders (borderline, narcissistic, dependent) and schizophrenia (paranoid subtype). They are placed on the continuum of normality-pathology and refer to process of crisis. The above-mentioned nosographical classification should be considered together with the inner feelings of the mother: the feeling of emptiness, feelings of inadequacy related to the maternal role and the change of social role. Infanticide seems to be the result of a failure in the sense of depression, while the filicide would veer more to source with psychotic features. Conclusions: The identification and definition of psychopathological configurations appear weak in order to interpret the complex phenomena of infanticide and filicide, where often you can find dual diagnosis and comorbidity. On the basis of interpretation it is desirable to formulate models and treatment lines appropriate to this context of mental pain.
- Subjects
INFANTICIDE; FILICIDE; POSTPARTUM depression; MOTHERHOOD; PATHOLOGICAL psychology
- Publication
Psichiatria e Psicoterapia, 2012, Vol 31, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
1724-4919
- Publication type
Article