Impagnatiello, the psychiatrist: «Inauthentic emotions. It can simulate repentance”

A person who betrays the inauthenticity of his emotions towards people deeply close to him and the total lack of empathy. Second Giancarlo Cerveridirector of the Mental Health and Addictions Department of the Lodi Asst, these seem to be the distinctive features of the behavior shown in court by Alessandro Impagnatiello.

Doctor Cerveri, how credible can the «repentance» be? classroom scene? And how much should be ascribed to the manifestation of a “sick” personality?

«Not knowing Impagnatiello if not for what you read, it can be said that he shows a capacity for anempathetic behavior, that is, an enormous degree of determination towards the achievement of his own objectives, with an emotional distancing towards not others in generic terms, but towards the people who are most connected to him, to girlfriend expecting a child. And therefore a person with perhaps even narcissistic, particularly maladaptive traits. All this would betray a personological structure that could in some way also try to simulate repentance.”

And the crying outbursts?

«These could be linked to the theme of frustrationmore than perhaps to repentance.”

In what sense?

«The frustration in the face of a life hypothesis that has been shattered. This man evidently had a plan behind the works he carried out against his own son and his partner. This project fell apart, as did his life.”

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