TWO COUNTRIES, SAME FEAR: WHEN WOMEN DIE DUE TO PATHOLOGICAL LOVE

Abstract

Violence is nothing more than the intentional use of physical force by people with the aim of causing harm to other living beings or to material goods that manifests itself through injury, pain, disability, damage, death. The World Health Organization shows that violence is "the intentional use of physical force or power - threatened or actual - against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in physical harm, death, psychological suffering, impaired development or deprivation" (World Health Organization, 2015). It follows from this definition that violence is not limited to obvious physical aggression. It includes subtle and systemic forms of exercising power. Violence causes psychological trauma, economic inequality and/or social marginalization. Intention is the essential element, the fundamental distinction between an act of violence and an accidental event lies in the will or conscious acceptance of the risk that harm may be caused. Even in the absence of immediate bodily harm, violence has serious consequences, lasting consequences on physical, mental and social health (Krug et al., 2002).