In this article I will describe a ten-year psychotherapy treatment, with a frequency of four to five sessions per week in the first two years, and one session every fortnight for the following eight years in prison, with a man sentenced to twenty-three years for murdering his wife.

I will analyse the complex personality of a young multi-talented male doctor, pushed to the edge of a chasm by a transgenerational destiny for males to be “the best” in everything.

This unconscious need forced him to build up a hypertrophic self of “the perfect man” who, faced with the frustrations of life, broke down, revealing a very fragile and immature core.

The collapsing of the ego led him to a killing which was meant to “save”, in a distorted way, his project of being “the perfect father”, without realising that he was, instead, destroying not only his wife's life, but his children's and his own life too.