title: Assaultive eye injury and enucleation.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
authors.forename: A O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Bukhanovsky
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hempel
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Meloy
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Brantley
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cuneo
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gleyzer
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Felthous
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015353:Eye Enucleation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012426:Russia; D014481:United States; D014754:Violence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology*