Citation

Benezech M, Yesavage JA, Addad M, Bourgeois M, Mills M. J. Clin. Psychiatry 1984; 45(2): 85-86.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Physicians Postgraduate Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6693367

Abstract

Records were reviewed for all psychotics who had been found not responsible for a homicide and admitted to a French state hospital for the criminally insane over a 5-year period (N = 109). Subjects were diagnosed primarily as schizophrenic (N = 64) or paranoid (N = 37). Paranoids were more likely than schizophrenics to have killed a relative or friend rather than a stranger or another mental patient (p less than .05), whereas schizophrenics were more likely than paranoids to have killed a parent than another relative or a friend (p less than .01). Homicide by schizophrenics commonly involved enmeshed parental relationships of delusional proportions; themes of jealously and megalomania predominated in homicides by paranoids.

Language: en