Dyadic death - depression and borderline personality.
OBJECTIVE
This work aims to present the difficulties in the assessment of sanity of a perpetrator involved in the so-called dyadic death, which in Poland is identified with the occurrence of sever mood disturbances at the time of the crime.


METHODS



METHODS
A case of a man who killed his wife and two children is presented. The perpetrator himself tried to commit suicide by cutting his veins with a razor.


CONCLUSIONS



CONCLUSIONS
The authors underline diagnostic difficulties which were encountered in the analysed case, they point out the necessity to go beyond the phenomenological aspect of "dyadic death" and the need for multidimensional clinical evaluation of the perpetrator. The rarity of similar acts and low survival rate of perpetrators leaves experts with relatively small amount of opinion giving experience. Thus, there is a need for high accuracy research and careful consideration.
Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw.
Anna
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Pilszyk
Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.
Przemysław
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Cynkier
D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006708:Homicide / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000150:complications; D000068356:Self-Control / Q000523:psychology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
borderline personality; depression; dyadic death