Violent relationships or perverse relationships: reflections from the theoretical point of view on a series of cases requiring the evaluation of an expert in forensic psychiatry

Abstract

This article takes a cue from an expert case study to reflect on some difunctional modalities present in the adult heterosexual couple. In particular, we analyze the different mechanisms that intervene in sexual paraphilia and in character perversion, in the phenomena of manipulation and collusion, in situations of ambivalence and ambiguity, as well as in the various forms of violence. The aim is to give further interpretations of the phenomenon of destructiveness in the adult couple.