%0 Journal Article
%T Self-mutilation of the eye
%J Journal of clinical psychiatry
%D 1979
%A Crowder, J. E.
%A Gross, C. A.
%A Heiser, J. F.
%A Crowder, A. M.
%V 40
%N 10
%P 420-423
%X While the act of self-enucleation is rare, other self-inflicted eye injuries may be more common. Six patients are reported who have documented histories of ocular self-mutilation. Several common factors are observed in these patients and in other cases reported in the literature: (1) the patient was judged to be psychotic; (2) the patient had a tyrannical conscience; (3) a source of guilt was present; (4) this guilt was displaced to the eye; and (5) an attempt at self-inflicted eye injury was followed by relief from anxiety when completed or by frustration when injury was prevented.<p /><p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Physicians Postgraduate Press
%@ 0160-6689
%U http://dx.doi.org/