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ArticleBMC psychiatry2025

Psychological mechanisms of revenge and revenge ideations in family homicide: results from qualitative research of forensic assessment reports.

L H Grobbink, K M L Huijbregts, S Draisma, J J L Derksen, G J Westerhof

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L H GrobbinkGGZ Oost Brabant mental health care, Postbus 3, 5427 ZG, Boekel, the Netherlands. lh.grobbink@ggzoostbrabant.nl.
K M L HuijbregtsScelta/GGNet NL, Warnsveld, the Netherlands.
S DraismaTrimbos Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
J J L DerksenRadboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
G J WesterhofUniversity of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands.

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Abstract

Our aim was to find out which social and psychological factors characterize forensic psychiatric patients who have committed family homicide with revenge as a reason as compared to subjects who committed family homicide with other motives. Qualitative research was carried out on the basis of pre-trial forensic assessment reports of existing cases (N=20), divided between Revenge and No-Revenge cases. In case of revenge, violence was almost always a sort of settling of an interpersonal score. Psychotic symptomatology was absent in the Revenge cases, personality problems (particularly borderline and narcissistic traits) were common. Demoralization because of a decline of well-being seems to be an important factor pushing some persons with such vulnerabilities over the edge. Our expectation is that, at least in a certain proportion of (non-psychotic) patients, there will be more brooding on revenge than the psychotherapist suspects.

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HomicideAdultFamilyFemaleForensic PsychiatryHumansMaleMiddle AgedPersonality DisordersQualitative ResearchFamily homicideForensic assessment reportsPersonalityPsychopathologyQualitative researchRevengeVengeance

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PMID40474127
PMCPMC12142827

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