TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Assaultive eye injury and enucleation
JO  - The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
A1  - Bukhanovsky, A. O.
A1  - Hempel, A.
A1  - Ahmed, W.
A1  - Meloy, J. R.
A1  - Brantley, A. C.
A1  - Cuneo, D.
A1  - Gleyzer, R.
A1  - Felthous, Alan R.
SP  - 590
EP  - 602
VL  - 27
IS  - 4
N2  - An especially dangerous behavior observed in some forensic and security hospital populations is assaultive eye gouging. Although a number of case reports in the literature concern auto-enucleation, gouging out the eyes of another is virtually unmentioned. We present a case series of eye gougers (n = 10) gathered through clinical contributions from several forensic populations in the United States and Russia. Four subjects were psychotic during the eye-gouging episode, one was only mentally retarded, and five, who were neither psychotic nor retarded, deliberately injured victims' eyes during acts of extreme sexual violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1093-6793
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -