PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bukhanovsky, AO
AU  - Hempel, A
AU  - Ahmed, W
AU  - Meloy,
AU  - Brantley, AC
AU  - Cuneo, D
AU  - Gleyzer, R
AU  - Felthous, AR
TI  - Assaultive eye injury and enucleation
DP  - 1999 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 590--602
VI  - 27
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/27/4/590.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/27/4/590.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1999 Dec 01; 27
AB  - 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.