Psychic family violence and pathological jealousy with tragic consequences: Homicide

Abstract

The presented case is not a singular one and it belongs to the pathology of the last period in Romania as a consequence of an unprecedented social phenomenon in the last 50 years, namely the massive migration of the young labor force especially in Western-European countries. One of the consequences is that many children are left in the care of only one parent or more often in the care of the grandparents. Another consequence is that the spouses separate for shorter or longer periods of time, they keep in touch only through telephone and after months, or even years, when they meet, they fight, especially regarding the possible infidelity. Authors have published several papers about children left to grow up without parents. This time it's about a young man who killed his wife in a very particular way, the wife having returned from working in Italy for one day. The psychological profile of the perpetrator and even more the lack of psychiatric antecedents wouldn't have suggested such an ending to the relationship between the two, but still the murder took place and the authors are trying to explain it.