1Amanda Luiza Batista Cordeiro; 2Priscilla dos Santos D. Montalvão; 1Pedro Dias Bezerra Neto; 1Pedro Nonato Silveira Costa; 1Epitácio Martins de Sá Neto; 3Viviane Ferrari Gomes; 3Délio Tiago Martins Malaquias; 3Maria Clara Guimarães Costa; 3Jenyffer Victoria Cabrera Villca; 3Riala Caroline Cheloni Catarino; 4Cristiano Bento Alvarenga; 5Jaqueline de Carvalho Ferreira; 5Isabela Marini Ferreira; 5Melissa Vieira de Oliveira; 5Giovana Casarini Yamashiro; 3Aline Cristina Couto da Silva; 3Daniella Campos Furtado; 3Elisa Favareto Prezotto; 3Thalita Pinheiro Morel Alineri; 3Lívia Santini Bomfim; 6Josmar Ramon Krüger Klock; 7Gabriel Queiroz Sabbag; 3Ana Clara Pavaneli R. De Souza; 3Luana Mara de Lima;
3Rafaela Del Grosso Reis; 3Elisitt Escarlet Valencia Cabrera; 8Júlia Sanches Emerenciano; 3,10Juliana Fontes B. Paschoal; 3,9Thiago Augusto Rochetti Bezerra.
1Academic in Medicine. Potiguar University. Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
2Doctor. UniEvangelica, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Goiânia. Goiás, Brazil.
3Academic in Medicine. UNAERP, São Paulo, Brazil.
4Academic in Medicine. Central University of Paraguay. East City. Paraguay.
5Academic in Medicine. Nove de Julho University. São Paulo, Brazil.
6Doctor. University of Passo Fundo. Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
7Doctor. Saint Leopoldo Mandic. Araras, São Paulo, Brazil.
8Academic in Medicine. Unimes, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil.
9Doctor of Medical Sciences. Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
10Doctor of Sciences. University of São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil.
ABSTRACT:
Psychosis is a mental illness that causes an alteration in the notion of reality, where a world of its own is formed in the mind of the psychotic, in other words, he lives in a delirium and suffers hallucinations, hearing voices and having bizarre visions. Objectives: To carry out a literature review on Forensic Psychiatry and how to assess the mental health of a serial killer. Method: The methodology used was a literature review. The research was carried out by means of an electronic search for scientific articles published on the Scielo (Scientific Electronic Library Online) and Lilacs (Latin American Health Sciences Literature) and Pubmed websites. The health terminologies consulted in the Health Sciences descriptors (DeCS/BIREME) were used; regarding Forensic Psychiatry and how to assess the mental health disorder of a serial killer.The inclusion criteria were: original article, published in Portuguese and English, freely accessible, in full, on the subject, in electronic format and published in the last years (2010 to 2024), totaling 26 articles. Results and Discussion: While antisocial personality disorder is a medical diagnosis, the term “psychopathy”, which belongs to the psychiatric-forensic sphere, can be understood as a “legal diagnosis”. There is still no effective treatment for so-called “serial killers”. Conclusion: Personality disorders, especially the antisocial type, still represent a real challenge for forensic psychiatry today. The most appropriate and fair place for its sufferers, as well as homogeneous treatment recommendations, are still unanswered questions.
KEYWORDS:
psychosis; forensic psychiatry; personality disorders; serial killer.
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