@article{ref1,
title="Incomplete oedipism and chronic suicidality in psychotic depression with paranoid delusions related to eyes",
journal="Annals of general psychiatry",
year="2006",
author="Pompili, Maurizio and Lester, David and Tatarelli, Roberto and Girardi, Paolo",
volume="5",
number="2",
pages="18-18",
abstract="Self-enucleation or oedipism is a term used to describe self-inflicted enucleation. It is a rare form of self-mutilation, found mainly in acutely psychotic patients. We propose the term incomplete oedipism to describe patients who deliberately and severely mutilate their eyes without proper enucleation. We report the case of a 32-year-old male patient with a five-year history of psychotic depression accompanied by paranoid delusions centered around his belief that his neighbors criticized him and stared at him. A central feature of his clinical picture was an eye injury that the patient had caused by pouring molten lead into his right eye during a period of deep hopelessness and suicidality when the patient could not resolve his anhedonia and social isolation. Pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy dramatically improved his disorder.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1744-859X",
doi="10.1186/1744-859X-5-18",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-5-18"
}