Abuse in childhood and psychopathic traits in a sample of violent offenders.

Schimmenti, Adriano; Carlo, Giovanbattista Di; Passanisi, Alessia; Caretti, Vincenzo

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“…A more recent hypothesis (Schraft, Kosson, & McBride, 2013) states that child maltreatment is a risk factor that could increase the probability of a more serious and maladaptive expression of the psychopathic dimension, as it affects the normal development of some basic skills such as affective modulation, empathy, mentalization, and interpersonal and self-regulation (Schimmenti, Di Carlo, Passanisi, & Caretti, 2015). Other authors (Waxman, Fenton, Skodol, Grant, & Hasin, 2014) identified significant correlations between the increase of some Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) components, such as "lifestyle" and "antisocial behavior" (F2 factor) (Hare, 2003) and physical abuse by male figures during childhood.…”

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Psychopathy in Italian female murderers

Carabellese

Felthous

Mandarelli

et al. 2019

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Over the years, the number of homicides in Italy has progressively decreased, ultimately becoming one of the lowest rates in Europe (357 = 0.7 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2017, according to ISTAT). The number of homicides committed by women was about 9% of the total number of homicides during our study period. The percentage has increased in recent years because the total number of homicides has decreased without a proportionate decrease in the number of female homicides. Indeed, murder is an unusual type of crime for a woman and is often associated with a mental disorder, so when a woman committed a homicide, a psychiatric assessment was often performed. A forensic psychiatry expert was assigned to investigate the offender's psychopathology and mental state at the time of the offense. The root causes of the crime remained unexplained, however, due to the lack of a psychiatric precedent to justify this kind of assessment. The role of psychopathy in homicide has seldom been studied in female offenders, even though psychopathy has an important role in violent crimes. The investigators examined, clinically and historically, a sample of women who committed murder with different levels of criminal responsibility (female homicide offenders found not guilty by reason of insanity, having partial criminal responsibility, and convicted as criminally responsible and sentenced to prison) to identify the prevalence of the psychopathic dimension and its possible role in this sample. Prevalence and degree of psychopathic traits were examined in these female offenders using the Psychopathy Checklist‐Revised. This study showed that females who had committed homicide were likely to suffer from mental illness; most of the homicidal acts were committed impulsively; and most female homicides occurred within the family, especially among women who were psychotic, but less so if they were psychopathic. Psychopathy tended to co‐occur more with personality disorders than with psychotic psychopathology. Psychopathy was more evident among female homicide offenders who had been abused or traumatized. Psychopathic women who killed had high factor F1 scores and low antisocial component of factor F2.

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Psychopathy in Italian female murderers

Carabellese

Felthous

Mandarelli

et al. 2019

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…Feelings of shame are often associated with infertility. The internalization of unworthy or abusing parents (18) may also play a role in causing such emotion together with dysfunctional attitudes (i.e. insecure attachment and problematic internet use) (19,20) and disadaptive disorders (i.e.…”

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Surgical removal of multiple mesenteric fibroids (Kg 4,500) by abdominal spread of previous laparoscopic uterine myomectomy

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Gulino²,

Leanza³

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“…Proportions were compared with chi-square test ( 2). A logistic regression analysis was performed to control for covariates that differed in our two groups despite randomization.…”

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How to prevent mesh erosion in transobturator Tension-Free Incontinence Cystocoele Treatment (TICT): a comparative survey

Leanza¹

2015

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BackgroundStress urinary incontinence (SUI) is involuntary leakage from effort, exertion, sneezing or coughing. SUI is usually associated with cystocele, a medical condition that occurs when the tough fibrous wall between a woman's bladder and her vagina (the pubocervical fascia) is torn by childbirth, allowing the bladder to herniate into the vagina. Shame, depression and anxiety have been found to co-occur in incontinent women. Shame is a negative and self-conscious emotion, described as the sentiment of being exposed, ridiculous and undervalued. It may be elicited by personal perception of cognition according to a specific context (1). The internalization of unworthy or abusing parents (2) may have an important impact in causing such emotion together with other dysfunctional attitudes (i.e. insecure attachment and problematic internet use) (3, 4) and disadaptive disorders (i.e. psychopathic traits) (5). Above all, women of reproductive age are psychologically affected by SUI and cystocele as this factor may have a negative impact on pregnancy, Background. Tension-Free Incontinence Cystocoele Treatment (TICT) was introduced by Leanza-Gasbarro-Caschetto in 2001, on the basis of experimental and clinical investigations to obtain a physiologic mechanism of closure and opening of the urethra in the event of genuine stress urinary incontinence (S.U.I.) and cistocoele. TICT took origin from the previous retropubic tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) based on the integral theory according which mid-urethra has a main role for urinary continence but differs in that the

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Abuse in childhood and psychopathic traits in a sample of violent offenders.

Cited by 48 publications

References 54 publications

Psychopathy in Italian female murderers

Psychopathy in Italian female murderers

Surgical removal of multiple mesenteric fibroids (Kg 4,500) by abdominal spread of previous laparoscopic uterine myomectomy

How to prevent mesh erosion in transobturator Tension-Free Incontinence Cystocoele Treatment (TICT): a comparative survey

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