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Abstract
Forensic investigation and clinical treatment of infanticide mother is an occasion to reflect about the social stigma associated with
this crime. The forensic-psychiatric assessment must be anchored on an authentic and meaningful clinical relationship to criminal
mother, without misinterpretation and countertransferal dynamics, such as emotional reactions of mistrust and stigmatization of
the offender. These prevent the evaluator from making a correct psychological and psychopathological diagnosis. There is evidence
that diachronic, multidisciplinary diagnostic evaluation may lead to strategies for treatment and rehabilitation. These measures,
which can allow the patient to regain his dignity, his working capacities and social role, and ensure that the penalty is rehabilitative
and not only retributive.