Monday, August 11, 2003

Psychiatrist Stabs a Top Italian Psychologist

Italian police have arrested a former psychiatrist for stabbing to death a psychologist who had reportedly recommended he be committed to a hospital for treatment of mental illness. Italian state television broke into its newscast on August 7th to report the arrest of Arturo Geoffroy, 47, who had just taken a dip in the sea at a beach in Camogli, near Genoa. Lorenzo Bignamini, 42, a psychologist at a Milan hospital, was chased and stabbed in the heart on Saturday on a Milan street as bystanders watched in horror. Lorenzo Bignamini had been President of the Societa Italiana Di Psicologia Clinica Medica [Italian Society of Medical Clinical Psychology].

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