Violences, homicides et délires de persécution

Persecution and prejudice are the most common themes of delirium. Psychotic subjects (paranoiacs or schizophrenics) who suffer from delirium are therefore liable to defensive behavioural characteristics and mechanisms. These characteristics include behaviour of avoidance or escape and even aggression towards the persecutor/s. In such cases, violent acts are committed in an effort to control or destroy the source of suffering and persecution. Several examples regularly attest this claim. In complement to classical therapeutic methods, certain new cognitive and behaviourist psychotherapies of chronic psychoses, appear to be promising therapeutic and preventive vectors, which reduce or resolve the different intensity of criminal urges caused by certain delirium of persecution and prejudices. Delirium of prejudice and persecution, whether isolated or associated with other themes of delirium, are a risk factor for emotional changes, which can engender self or heteroaggressive acts (once or multiple), carried out by subjects who suffer from them. The interruption of treatment of these psychotic processes, when they exist, is a possible factor for maintaining or increasing these troubles and sometimes of the dangers associated with them. Therefore, to avoid subjects committing dangerous acts, constant and regular checks of psychotherapeutic and psychotropic treatment, with constrained hospitalisation if necessary, are curative and preventive measures, should be systematic.