TY - JOUR T1 - Assaultive eye injury and enucleation JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 590 LP - 602 VL - 27 IS - 4 AU - AO Bukhanovsky AU - A Hempel AU - W Ahmed AU - Meloy, JR AU - AC Brantley AU - D Cuneo AU - R Gleyzer AU - AR Felthous Y1 - 1999/12/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/27/4/590.abstract 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. ER -