Schizophrenia and filicide: Reflection about a clinical case and literature review
Department of Child and adolescent psychiatry, university hospital Mohamed VI, Marrakesh, Morocco.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2022, 14(01), 570–572
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2022.14.1.0354
Publication history:
Received on 19 March 2022; revised on 24 April 2022; accepted on 26 April 2022
Abstract:
Filicide, a highly traumatic act, requires very specific meanings. In the international literature a large proportion of cases are correlated with maternal mental pathology. The case we report describes a tragic filicide by a mother with no psychiatric history. This acting out reveals schizophrenia. Thus, the main objective of our work is to emphasize the need for the diagnosis and early management of psychiatric illness, in particular in pregnant women in order to provide violence oneself or to others and to raise the problem of social prevention for these patients and their children and families.
Keywords:
Filicide; Schizophrenia; Prevention; Acting out
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