The present work provides a novel contribution to the psychoanalytic literature on criminal tendencies and is based on an experience of group supervision with the staff of professionals in an Italian Secure Psychiatric Unit. With the support of a single case from that institution, the case of Mary, and two more clinical illustrations, new insights on the criminal act will be presented and discussed according to three main themes: a) the failure of containment; b) the antisocial act as a concrete attempt to represent internal conflicts; c) the violent internal aspect as the place where the patient’s psychic vitality resides. The work concludes by showing how the care team, within this kind of institution, can promote the patients’ psychic development on each of the following three themes: a) acting as a transformative container; b) being capable of restoring a symbolic and representational dimension to violent and antisocial acts; c) being capable of restoring the aspect of the psychic vitality of violent and antisocial acts to promote the passage towards the differentiation between +psychic vitality and -psychic vitality.

当前的工作为有关犯罪倾向的精神分析文献提供了新颖的贡献，并且基于与意大利安全精神病学部门的专业人员一起进行团体监督的经验。在该机构的一个案例，玛丽的案例以及另外两个临床插图的支持下，将根据三个主要主题介绍和讨论有关犯罪行为的新见解：b）反社会行为是代表内部冲突的具体尝试；c）暴力的内在方面是患者心理活力所在的地方。这项工作的结尾是说明在这种机构中，护理团队如何在以下三个主题中的每个主题上促进患者的心理发展：a）充当变革性的容器；b）能够恢复暴力和反社会行为的象征性和代表性；c）有能力恢复暴力行为和反社会行为的心理活力方面，以促进朝着+精神活力和-精神活力之间的区分迈进。