Citation

Bukhanovsky AO, Hempel A, Ahmed W, Meloy JR, Brantley AC, Cuneo D, Gleyzer R, Felthous AR. J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 1999; 27(4): 590-602.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Publisher American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law)

DOI

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PMID

10638786

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.

Language: en