(n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The administration of para-chloro-D, L-phenylalanine (PCPA) produces a high incidence of aggressive (filicidal) behavior in pre-, postpartum, and nulliparious rodents.
(2) Neither the parturition process nor severe food deprivation are strong causative factors in the precipitation of filicidal behavior.
(3) After briefly summarizing the allegorical implications of the various forgotten Oedipus myths and the father's fateful role within the Theban tragedy, this paper elaborates on those pederastic and filicidal inclinations that I believe to be universal among fathers.
(4) The retrospective nature of filicide research and the small sample size of cases exacerbated difficulties in carrying out such research, the inquest heard.
(5) A number of significant issues are dealt with including consequences of failure to elicit positive family history of affective disorder, suicide and filicide.
(6) Types of filicide were compared on a number of social and psychiatric characteristics and on their offence patterns and court disposals.
(7) The authors point to problems in differential diagnosis in the framework of other subjects like 'non-accidental poisoning', 'doctor-shopping' and 'filicide'.
(8) No one person or agency could have reasonably been expected to foresee that Mr Anderson would be that rare perpetrator, and Luke the rare victim, of a violent filicide.” Rosie Batty, named Australian of the year for 2015 because of her advocacy on family violence, said that this was a “monumental day” and it did bring a degree of closure for her.
(9) I would most definitely want them to know what filicide is and what the risks are so that every professional recognises those risk factors and they are incorporated into family violence education frameworks.” On Wednesday, a detective who questioned Luke last year was asked about the way she assessed his risk of harm, and why she concluded he was safe.
(10) Indeed, a history of familial double filicide raises the question of possible hereditary influences.
(11) Deaths were classified based on the total information available into group A: poor prognosis (n = 7), group B: treatable disease (n = 45), group C: minor disease (n = 32), group D: no disease (n = 19), group E: probably accidental (n = 4), and group F: probably filicide (n = 8).
(12) Most of the filicidal acts committed by these chronically impaired men resulted from isolated explosive behavior.
(13) Six types of maternal filicide were distinguished: battering mothers (36 cases), mentally ill mothers (24 cases), neonaticides (11 cases), retaliating mothers (9 cases), women who killed unwanted children (8 cases) and mercy killing (1 case).
(14) Latency of attack, intensity phases, and characteristics of the filicidal behavior were found to vary inversely with brain serotonin content, and be reversed or eliminated by replacement of serotonin i.e., via 5-hydroxytryptophan, serotonin's immediate precursor.
(15) The authors analysed the autopsic material of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Belgrade related to a sixty-year period (1920-1980) and found 26 cases of filicide.
(16) Filicide is the term denoting murder of a child by one of his (her) parents.
(17) It lies solely on Greg Anderson.” But filicide, the act of a parent deliberately killing their child, was rare and there were no good risk assessment tools to determine the likelihood a parent might commit the crime, Gray said.
(18) On the basis of this finding, the authors concluded that filicide was not very frequent in this area.
(19) Compared with filicides, matricides were significantly older, were single, and more often suffered from mental illness and substance abuse.
(20) A survey of twelve families with 2 or more cot deaths showed that in two families the deaths were completely unexplained; in three the babies had a probably familial developmental disorder; in two the care of the infants was seriously at fault and could have contributed to death; and in five filicide was probable.
Parricide
Definition:
(n.) Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.
(n.) The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sophocles' Jocasta prefers her son to her husband and this preference results in parricide and incest.
(2) The latter, which Freud described as a sequel to "Totem and Taboo", is seen as the acting out of the wish for parricide described in that work.
(3) Even a parricide could buy forgiveness at God's tribunal at one ducat; four livres, eight carlines."
(4) The literature on parricide is reviewed with special reference to women.
(5) To claim the crown, should he trust Melisandre, whose mysterious powers and zero scruples about parricide could make him king?
(6) They found significant differences between parricidal adolescents and other homicidal adolescents on personality, family, social, and follow-up adjustment variables.
(7) Oedipus fantasies the rulers of Thebes to be his parents and takes his behavior toward them as both incestuous and parricidal.
(8) The Oedipus complex of Freud is based on the inevitability of the tragic fate of a man who fled his home to escape the prophecy of parricide.
(9) Later just as Oedipus did, the child learns from his parents and from the rest of his environment, that his incestuous and parricidal behavior is dreadful and that he must feel very guilty and be punished severely.
(10) Seventeen female parricides (14 matricides, 3 patricides) were identified: in a remand prison (11), a Special Hospital (5), and a Regional Secure Unit (1).
(11) The authors examined the available data for 10 adolescents who had been charged with parricide and compared these with data for matched groups of 10 adolescents charged with murdering another relative or a close acquaintance and 10 charged with murdering a stranger.
(12) In the case of parent-offspring conflict, an evolutionary model predicts variations in the risk of violence as a function of the ages, sexes, and other characteristics of protagonists, and these predictions are upheld in tests with data on infanticides, parricides, and filicides.
(13) The study begins by noting that Oedipus ascended the throne of Thebes not by parricide but by answering the riddle of the Sphynx and affirming the continuity of the life cycle which his father denied.
(14) In fact, perpetrating a crime the delinquent is punished for a crime whose importance is lower than those conceived by their fantasy (incest, parricide) by a tribunal that does not apply the lex talionis, unlike the Super-Ego.
(15) They have other unconscious fantasies in which they feel that their sexual objects are really their parents and in which trivial acts acquire the value of incest and parricide.
(16) The authors reviewed the records of 10 men charged with patricide, including one charged with double parricide, all of whom had been examined at the Forensic Psychiatry Service of Bellevue Hospital from 1970 to 1983.
(17) The usual interpretation of the Oedipus legend, which wrongly believes that he really committed incest and parricide, does not take into account the distortions of judgement and preception which guilt feelings can give rise to.
(18) Moreover, the idea emerges from Freud's two texts that the instinctual demand manifested through the repetition compulsion is the persistence of the incestuous and parricidal wish.