SELF- ENUCLEATION OF EYES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA- AN UNUSUAL MODE OF DELIBERATE SELF HARM

Self inflicted injury to the eyes including self-enucleation is a rare phenomenon. The authors describe a case of bilateral self-enucleation in a patient with paranoid schizophrenia. A review of literature shows that self-enucleation is correlated with moral, religious and psychodynamic paradigms an...

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Autores principales: Kumar, P.N. Suresh, Subramanian, N., Koyamu, A.M. Kunchi, Kumar, Ranja
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2001
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407887
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Sumario:Self inflicted injury to the eyes including self-enucleation is a rare phenomenon. The authors describe a case of bilateral self-enucleation in a patient with paranoid schizophrenia. A review of literature shows that self-enucleation is correlated with moral, religious and psychodynamic paradigms and various unconscious mechanisms have been proposed to explain this unusual behaviour.

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