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
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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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author Kumar, P.N. Suresh
Subramanian, N.
Koyamu, A.M. Kunchi
Kumar, Ranja
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description 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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spelling pubmed-29562482011-03-15 SELF- ENUCLEATION OF EYES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA- AN UNUSUAL MODE OF DELIBERATE SELF HARM Kumar, P.N. Suresh Subramanian, N. Koyamu, A.M. Kunchi Kumar, Ranja Indian J Psychiatry Case Report 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. Medknow Publications 2001 /pmc/articles/PMC2956248/ /pubmed/21407887 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kumar, P.N. Suresh
Subramanian, N.
Koyamu, A.M. Kunchi
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SELF- ENUCLEATION OF EYES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA- AN UNUSUAL MODE OF DELIBERATE SELF HARM
title SELF- ENUCLEATION OF EYES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA- AN UNUSUAL MODE OF DELIBERATE SELF HARM
title_full SELF- ENUCLEATION OF EYES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA- AN UNUSUAL MODE OF DELIBERATE SELF HARM
title_fullStr SELF- ENUCLEATION OF EYES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA- AN UNUSUAL MODE OF DELIBERATE SELF HARM
title_full_unstemmed SELF- ENUCLEATION OF EYES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA- AN UNUSUAL MODE OF DELIBERATE SELF HARM
title_short SELF- ENUCLEATION OF EYES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA- AN UNUSUAL MODE OF DELIBERATE SELF HARM
title_sort self- enucleation of eyes in schizophrenia- an unusual mode of deliberate self harm
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