RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Assaultive eye injury and enucleation
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 590
OP 602
VO 27
IS 4
A1 AO Bukhanovsky
A1 A Hempel
A1 W Ahmed
A1 Meloy, JR
A1 AC Brantley
A1 D Cuneo
A1 R Gleyzer
A1 AR Felthous
YR 1999
UL http://jaapl.org/content/27/4/590.abstract
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.