Child killed, psychiatrists: “Biggest short-circuit figlicide, warning for society”

by time news

“A filicide is the most dramatic short circuit of what can happen in the mind of a human being, especially of a female human being, of a mother. And it is always good to say that usually these events never happen by chance. , never from one minute to the next, never without any previous indication. They sound like a warning to society. To go and see the elements that indicated such severe suffering and discomfort, elements that certainly existed and certainly have not been grasped, it will be necessary to dig into the history of the present past, as well as the distant past of this woman “, the mother of Elena Del Pozzo, 5, found dead in the Catania area after the woman herself, Martina Patti, 23, indicated to the forces of order where to find the little body. This is the analysis of Massimo Di Giannantonio, president of the Italian Society of Psychiatry (Sip).

The expert tries to explain to time.news Salute what can happen in the mind of a mother who comes to perform an unimaginable gesture: “The founding relationship of existence is the relationship between mother and child. When this relationship fails, it becomes destructive. , dramatic and arrives at filicide, it is as if the revolution, the tragedy, the construction of the most serious nonsense of the human being took place. To better understand the reasons for a tragedy of this dimension, we must resort to two categories: that of psychopathology and that of the event that triggers psychopathology “.

And therefore “in the story of this woman” we will have to reconstruct “what are the stages of neurodevelopment, what are the traumas suffered, such as the environmental, family, social, economic complications that have determined such a serious condition of lack of control of impulses and incapacity to support the relationship with reality and therefore with the fruit of her own womb, what kind of psychopathology in the evolutionary history this woman has undergone. And then what is the trigger, the final dramatic element that unhinged the controls, canceled the rationality and led to this extreme gesture. This is the work of the psychopathologist, of the technician of the psychic suffering of man “, explains the expert. But Di Giannantonio also focuses attention on another painful element of this story.

What strikes the psychiatrist is the fact that “this person invented excuses, falsely accused three characters, thought of concealing the evidence and diverting the course of the investigation”. To understand why “we must enter the delusional world of the sense of guilt, of the attempt to remove from oneself the pain and the dramatic perception of the enormity of the performed gesture, which, however, in the face of disputes from the world of reality – the interrogation of investigators, the elements of filmed traces, people’s testimonies, contradictions in the statements – made the confession immediate. a request for punishment and condemnation “.

What happened is something “so huge” that this person “will pay forever”, notes the expert who also raises the issue of the protective role that society can play. “It should also be said that pregnancy for a woman is a dramatic challenge to her neurobiological, neuropsychic and interpersonal and intrapersonal structure. It will be necessary to pay greater attention to what may be the consequences of traumas, changes and fears of which these people very often they have neither a correct nor adequate dialogue “, he concludes.

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