Assaultive Eye Injury and Enucleation (1999) A. O. Bukhanovsky, Anthony Hempel, W. Ahmed, J. R. Meloy, A. C. Brantley, D. Cuneo, R. Gleyzer and A. R. Felthous

Assaultive Eye Injury and Enucleation .

A. O. Bukhanovsky, Anthony Hempel, W. Ahmed, J. R. Meloy, A. C. Brantley, D. Cuneo, R. Gleyzer and A. R. Felthous,
Bull. Amer. Acad. Psychiatry & the Law 27(4): 590-602, 1999.

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.