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[quote=Anonymous]"In her study of 48 perpetrators, Wilczynski (1995) found that 50 per cent (14) of female and 45 per cent (nine) of male perpetrators had received prior psychiatric treatment, with 31.3 per cent (15) in total having had previous suicide thoughts or attempts. Putkonen et al. (2010) reported that, in the year prior to the filicide, 32 per cent (25) of mothers and 29 per cent (13) of fathers had requested help for mental health problems. Kauppi et al. (2010, p. 234) stated that psychosis or psychotic depression was the diagnosis in 51 per cent (19) and 20 per cent (four) of maternal and paternal cases, respectively. Further findings in this study were of personality disorder, including ‘immaturity, impulsiveness, and poor control of affect’, in 67 per cent (13) of paternal and 41 per cent (16) of maternal perpetrators. Haapasalo and Petaja (1999, pp. 229, 233) reported that two-thirds of the 48 maternal perpetrators in their study had ‘documented psychological problems’ before the incident, in particular ‘depression and mood disorder symptoms’. Further, they found that three mothers who were psychotic believed that they would be saving their children from future imagined suffering by killing them. In a study of maternal perpetrators, Bourget and Gagne (2002) reported that a psychiatric motive was determined for more than 85 per cent (23), and that the majority had received prior treatment for depressive or psychotic symptoms. Friedman et al. (2005) stated that 49 per cent (19) of the mothers in their study had been patients in a psychiatric hospital, 44 per cent (17) of the maternal perpetrators had previous suicide attempts and 56 per cent (22) had planned filicide-suicides. In addition, 69 per cent (27) had experienced auditory hallucinations and 78 per cent (30) command hallucinations, often in relation to killing their children. Stroud (2008, pp. 491–492) noted in her study that the most frequently reported psychological problem was delusions, where the perpetrators' ‘actions and emotions were completely influenced by delusional beliefs’, predominantly ‘auditory hallucinations commanding individuals to kill and delusions of persecution’"[/quote]

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