Citation

Trichet Y, Hamon R, Gaspard JL. Bull. Psychol. (Paris) 2015; 68(4): 331-339.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Universite de Paris. Groupe D Etudes de Psychologie)

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Abstract

Since the early writings of Pinel about mania without delirium up to the most recent research, the very danger that psychotic individuals can present appears as an accepted idea. The results of epidemiological and statistical studies on the violence of the mentally ill are certainly interesting, but this fact is not enough encrypted to explain clinically murderous behaviors committed by these individuals. Indeed, the prediction of violence does not allow to identify the subjective logic of these criminal acts and the features they come to fill. Identifying the coordinates of these acts and the real which is facing can help to understand the peculiar logic. But that can also help the therapist head into treatment, as the cases of Louis and Marc will show us. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords

Psychosis; psychosis; mania; Psychoanalysis; Subjectivity; subjectivity; criminal act; Criminal Behavior; Mania; psychoanalytic treatment