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The Self and the Psychology of Domestic Homicide-Suicide

Andrew Starzomski

Ferndale Institution, Mission, British Columbia, Canada V2V 4L8

David Nussbaum

Assessment and Triage Unit (formerly METFORS), 1001-3 Queen St. West, Toronto Ontario, Canada M6J 1H4.

Men commit the vast majority of domestic homicide-suicides (H-Ss) wherein a person kills their intimate partner (and/or other family members) before taking their own life. Studies of men who commit H-S have looked at the act from psychopathology and evolutionary psychology viewpoints. To complement those approaches, this article presents additional views of domestic H-S. Applications of theories from social (escape from self), developmental (evolution of self and continuity of self), gender role (power and the male role), and family violence psychology (abusive personality and proximal antecedents of abuse) are outlined. These conceptualizations are offered because they pertain to instability and deconstruction of the self amidst the life changes and intimate distress that precede many cases of domestic H-S.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 44, No. 4, 468-479 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X00444005
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