Delusional misidentification syndromes (DMSs) are complex psychotic phenomena that may
be present in a variety of ways within the context of several neurological and psychiatric …

Capgras and Fregoli syndromes are two psychotic and complex conditions also known as
Delusional Misidentification Syndromes (DMSs). Their description dates back to the …

This article focuses on the important and persistent phenomenon of women killed by their
sons. We argue that parricide (the killing of parents) is a gendered form of violence, given …

Matricide is an infrequent crime that has often raised to the suspicion that the offender could
suffer from a pathological mental status. Although it is hard to establish a relationship …

Intentional homicide, a declining phenomenon in Italy, represents one of the most extreme
forms of violence. A specific subgroup of homicidal assailants is represented by those …

Matricide is one of the rarest of reported murders and has always been considered one of
the most abhorrent crimes. Psychiatric investigations as to why a son might murder his …

At present, scholarship on matricide across many regions of the non-Western world is
lacking. For instance, in Ghana, despite the intermittent, yet recurrent, availability of media …

Despite being an infrequent crime, parental homicide has been associated with
schizophrenia spectrum disorders in adult perpetrators and a history of child abuse and …

The Psychology of Interpersonal Violence is a textbook which gives comprehensive
coverage of interpersonal violence—exploring the various violent acts that occur between …

Existing violence risk assessment studies of mental health patients focus mostly on the
association of historical presence of clinical risk factors and long-term violence, with little …