Assaultive eye injury and enucleation.
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.
Bukhanovsky
A O
AO
Department of Psychiatry, Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
Hempel
A
A
Ahmed
W
W
Meloy
J R
JR
Brantley
A C
AC
Cuneo
D
D
Gleyzer
R
R
Felthous
A R
AR
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*