(n.) The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
(n.) One who murders one's own mother.
Example Sentences:
(1) The matricidal group differed from the control group in the way they viewed the difference between mother and father on various scales, like over-involved, tolerant, affectionate and performance-orientated.
(2) In the days before the murder he sought out information about the Ku Klux Klan, the Waffen SS, Israel, serial killers and matricide.
(3) Thirteen out of sixteen cases described their mothers as quite domineering and demanding but the EMBU inventory revealed that the Matricidal group differed from the Control group in how tolerant they saw their parents.
(4) It is suggested that these features are of greater significance in matricide than the specific form of psychiatric disorder.
(5) The matricidal groups' mothers were found to be more over-involved, tolerant, affectionate, and fathers more abusive.
(6) The authors studied 15 men who committed matricide.
(7) Compared with filicides, matricides were significantly older, were single, and more often suffered from mental illness and substance abuse.
(8) Seventeen female parricides (14 matricides, 3 patricides) were identified: in a remand prison (11), a Special Hospital (5), and a Regional Secure Unit (1).
(9) Abdulrahman said he thought he had heard of an Isis fighter who had killed his father, but this was the first matricide he was aware of.
(10) Regardless of psychiatric diagnosis, matricides were mostly single, socially isolated women in mid-life, living alone with a domineering mother in a mutually dependent but hostile relationship.
(11) Similar characteristics are found in male matricides, who are predominantly schizophrenic.
(12) The authors studied sixteen men who committed matricide.
(13) The authors conclude that the matricidal impulse evolves through successive stages of psychological development; therefore, the motives for matricide are varied and correlate with the level of psychological development or regression.
(14) During one year's stay in the child psychiatric department after the homicide the boy was psychotic, probably suffering from a schizophrenic disorder which is presumed to have developed in the years preceding the matricide.
(15) The authors studied 10 men charged with patricide, including 2 men charged with both patricide and matricide and compared them with 10 schizophrenic patients who did not commit any crime.
Patricide
Definition:
(n.) The murderer of his father.
(n.) The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macbeth has been viewed as a play about the oedipal crime of patricide.
(2) Patricide patients' fathers were more punitive and shaming than control patients' fathers, and control patients' fathers were more stimulating and depriving than patricide patients' fathers.
(3) Where did she find the strength for this audacious patricide?
(4) A 34-year-old housewife who was arrested for patricide confessed that she had also killed six newborn infants between 1975 to 1983.
(5) A sense of relief was felt following the patricide rather than remorse.
(6) Patricide patients' mothers were more overinvolved and tolerant than control patients' mothers.
(7) Seven schizophrenics who committed patricide and both personality-disordered patients had a cruel and unusual relationship with their father.
(8) There's some moral ambiguity – he'll rough up crims to get what he wants, he's not a very good husband, and his most trusted ally is a patricidal psychopath – but in theory, there's little to differentiate it from, say, Prime Suspect or Cracker.
(9) Alice Morgan – said patricidal psychopath, played with delicious wickedness by Ruth Wilson – is one of TV's most unusual sidekicks.
(10) As one French commentator pointed out : “It’s rare that we witness a patricide first hand.” Jean-Marie’s decision to express himself in Rivarol , where he called for an alliance with Russia to save “the white world” among other suggestions, was seen as a blatant challenge to his daughter and her entourage.
(11) Seventeen female parricides (14 matricides, 3 patricides) were identified: in a remand prison (11), a Special Hospital (5), and a Regional Secure Unit (1).
(12) Two of the patricides had no psychiatric disorder but retaliated against violent fathers.
(13) In this regard the film’s psychologically dark and patricidal energies are inescapable: when pressed about his mother, Leon replies “let me tell you about my mother”, and blasts the inquiring blade runner in the groin; when Roy demands of Tyrell, “I want more life, fucker”, it’s the first and only swear word in the film, all the stronger for it, and for being addressed to a “father” who has unfeelingly engineered him, and not out of love fathered him at all.
(14) With his family newspaper condemning the flabbergasting "patricide" of Angelino Alfano, the PdL secretary widely seen as Berlusconi's heir who emerged as leader of the rebels, the 77-year-old arrived at the senate around 25 minutes into Letta's make-or-break speech "Italy is running a risk that is potentially fatal, without remedy," the prime minister told MPs, warning them of the damage to the country's economy and image that a government collapse and eventual fresh elections would inflict.
(15) The authors studied 10 men charged with patricide, including 2 men charged with both patricide and matricide and compared them with 10 schizophrenic patients who did not commit any crime.
(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) Eight patients who committed patricide were diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenic illness and 2 patients received a diagnosis of personality-disorder.