Filicide-Suicide Non Altruistic : A Brief Report

Child murder is a significant cause of infant mortality. We present the case of a double child homicide followed by the suicide of their father. Filicide-suicides, in particularity non-altruistic filicide-suicides, have been inadequately studied in the international literature. We shall describe at first the general characteristics and the specificities of this case. From the case study and that of the literature, we shall postulate psychopathological hypotheses to explain this act and envisage prevention.