ABSTRACT

Although murdering one's mother is a subject that has been discussed in many case reports, it is not easy to exp-lain the mechanisms and motivations involved. In this case report we present a man diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia acording to DSM-IV criteria who murderect his mother, injured four people and jumped from the winclow of the third floor after shoting his foot fingers.

Most of the matricidal studies show common characte- ristics of matricidal men. Matricidal men mostly use excessi-ve violence and kili their mothers in their bedrooms. They are usually the youngest child and have ambivalant attach-ment to their mothers like in our case.

In this case report characteristics of matricidal schizoph-renics is discussed in the ligth of a psychotic man who not only perceived his mother as a threat to his existence but al-so had protection and rescue feelings for her because of ex-cessive love.