title: [Personality disorder and penal imputability: a case of uxoricide in a expert's report].
abstract: The personality disorders are generally described as a persistent pattern of inner experience that deviates strongly from the expectations of the culture of an individual in terms of cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning and impulse control. They are a complex area of defining and understanding for the clinical and forensic psychiatrist. A recent ruling by the Court of Cassation stated that personality disorder may be a result of reduction or cancellation of the ability to understand and will, if so serious as to affect the same. In the present work is explored, using a psycho-diagnostic protocol, the psychological profile of a person with a narcissistic personality disorder, charged for uxoricidio.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università Federico II, Napoli. gallettad@email.it
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Galletta
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sarappa
authors.forename: Margherita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Casiello
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Giuliani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders; D018454:Spouses