Abstract
Forensic investigation and clinical treatment of infanticide mother is an occasion to reflect about the social stigma associated with this crime. The forensic-psychiatric assessment must be anchored on an authentic and meaningful clinical relationship to criminal mother, without misinterpretation and countertransferal dynamics, such as emotional reactions of mistrust and stigmatization of the offender.
Highlights
Forensic investigation and clinical treatment of infanticide mother is an occasion to reflect about the social stigma associated with this crime
Infanticide is a crime resulting in social stigma and alarm
Studies defined a number of types of situations and reasons for maternal filicide
Summary
To the penal rules of most countries, perpetrators of this crime may be only the mother who kills her newborn son while it is being born Psychological element of this offense requires a general intent in the conscience and will of the mother to suppress her newborn infant or fetus, in a state of moral and material abandonment. The five prevailing psychological patterns of filicide are: - The altruistic ( known as murder pietatis cause or compassionate) [3] often characterized by Beck's syndrome, consisting of a pessimistic view of self, the world, their own future and his son [1]; - The high-psychotic, where the crime is conducted under the pressure of imperative hallucinations; - Killing in which the mother is faced with unwanted parenthood, the result of an extramarital affair or mother ’s inability to face severe pain, abandonment, violence;. It has been said that "these women are pregnant with a 'nuisance' that will be disposed of in the trash or in the toilet bowl" [11]
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