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[Fratricide and Schizophrenia]
Juliana Rezende Leal1, Alexandre Martins Valença2
1Instituto de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Background:
Fratricide is the killing of one's own bother. It's a type of homicide rarely seen on psychiatric practice. This is still a theme which is poorly studied, and not well understood by the scientific literature.
Objective:
To report a case of a men, with paranoid schizophrenia that murdered his own bother and had a psychiatric forensic evaluation to establish his penal responsibility.
Methods:
A psychiatric interview was carried out and the psychiatric diagnosis was established based on the interview and analysis of forensic and medical records, using the DSM-IV-TR criteria. Literature review was held about the theme.
Results:
The examinee was considered not guilty by reason of insanity, due to the presence of a mental disorder that affected her entire understanding and volition of the practiced act.
Conclusions:
The study of such cases may illustrate and identify motivating factors related to homicidal behavior in individuals with severe mental disorders.