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Assaultive eye injury and enucleation

AO Bukhanovsky, A Hempel, W Ahmed, Meloy, AC Brantley, D Cuneo, R Gleyzer and AR Felthous
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online December 1999, 27 (4) 590-602;
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Abstract

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.

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AO Bukhanovsky, A Hempel, W Ahmed, Meloy, AC Brantley, D Cuneo, R Gleyzer, AR Felthous
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