ON THREE CASES OF THE INFANTICIDE

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Three cases of child murder by parent were reported.<BR>Case 1 : aged 26, female, killed her son by strangulation. Before this tragedy, she was depressive with an overvalued idea about her childen's anorexia and a feeling of inability to raise the children and of inadequacy as a mother. After killing her son, she attempted suicide but failed. The psychiatric diagnosis was reactive depression.<BR>Case 2 : aged 32, male, with a history of three admissions to mental hospital with the diagnosis of hallucinatory-paranoid schizophrenia, killed his son by suffocation and attempted suicide by burning himself. Prior to the fatal event, he had suffered from anxiety and insomnia due to a great deal of vacillation between remarrige and reconciliation with his divorced wife. His recollection of the crime was incomplete with a spotty amnesia and the motives of his murder were not clear and understandable. The diagnosis was a recurrence of schizophrenia.<BR>Case 3 : aged 39, female, tried to kill herself and her three children with car exhaust gas, but only the youngest son died. Her husband's unfaithfullness and violence had led to disturbed marital relationship resulting in her suicidal attempt and waste of money to spite her husband. The diagnosis was hysterical personality.<BR>The personal factors, psychiatric states and motives of the infanticide were presented and discussed referring to the relevant literature.
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