Vincenzo Mastronardi

Some Italian research on the phenomenon of filicide

In this work on the phenomenon of filicide, structured on the basis of the examination of hundreds of cases from 1880 to 2010, the five causes were taken into account: the altruistic filicide, the high psychotic component, that of the unwanted child, accidental filicide, and the spouse revenge filicide. Following the observation of Resnicks (1969) 530 psycho-biographiesss, a more structured typing was developed which on the basis of their motive and/or psychopathology divides mother infanticide into 20 categories: the first 10 imply full imputability, stessor events, for piety, immaturity of the mother, hyperactivity of the child, the son of the blame, Medea syndrome, disturbance dependent, narcissistic, or histrionic personality, unwanted child, depression, behavioral disorders involved in the recruitment of drugs. The remaining 10 are those where there may be impairment of traceability for postpartum psychosis (Brief psychotic disorder), Fundus hysterical plus precipitating factors, major depression, schizophrenia, twilight state, psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition, epilepsy, oligophrenia, multiple sclerosis and multiple personality, which however appears to be quite rare. An examination of the causes of death concludes the work.

Stalking of Psychiatrists: Psychopathological Characteristics and Gender Differences in an Italian Sample

Research has indicated that medical doctors and paramedics are at higher risk of being stalked than the general population. In particular, mental health care professionals alone represent one third of the victims of harassment. Because of the lack of studies in this specific sector, especially in Italy, in this study, we examined the stalking of psychiatrists by their patients, considering gender differences and the incidence of stalking in private practice and public mental health clinics in Rome. We found that the rate of stalking in private mental health settings is higher than that in public settings and that the perpetrators of stalking are mainly women who mostly target mental health professionals working in private practice. Implications of the findings are noted and discussed.

[Murder. Italy-USA comparative profiles].

This paper, through illustrative cases of homicidal typologies, examines the generally accepted theories on the subject: 1) sociological ones by Lorenz to Sutherland and Cressey, by Berkowitz to Wolfgang and Ferracuti and others; 2) neurobiological ones, which include the involvement of the limbic, hippocampal and parietal lobes of the brain; 3) the psychological (psychodynamic) ones which are not disjoint from the types of individual criminal homicide and related aspects. In the discussion of the types of murders, family and extrafamilial murders are then taken into consideration, with the various meanings of revenge, challenge, other reasons linked to robbery, theft, settling scores leading to youth gangs and drive-by-shootings of marginalized adolescents, crimes related to drugs and to mental disorders. Infanticide and multiple murder, including mass murder and serial killer, conclude the work together with the statistics of murders and family murders in Italy compared to USA, specifically to the crime clock.

Jurisprudential Review on Psychography | Rassegna Giurisprudenziale in merito alla Psicografologia e capacità a testare evinta dalla grafia. Stato dell’Arte scientifico, relativamente alle indagini in tema di alterazioni psicofisiche e scrittura

Miratamente in tema di Capacita d’intendere e/o volere, di Capacita a testare e Stato psichico dalla grafia, da intendersi esteso a tutti gli altri settori della Perizia anche in ambito civile inclusa la invalidita del matrimonio, adozione e affidamento (capacita pedagogiche), elenchiamo a titolo esemplificativo soltanto alcune delle sentenze direttamente inviateci per esteso dal Tribunale di Treviso (Cons. Dott. Francesco Pedoja), dal Tribunale di Siena (Cons. Dott. Dario Perrucci), dal Tribunale di Pordenone (Avv. Guido Comis) ed altri ancora, come esemplificazione dell’aver recepito da parte della disciplina giuridica l’evoluzione della scienza grafologica.

Intentional Homicide: Italy and the United States

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