Liberty and tardive dyskinesia: informed consent to antipsychotic medication in the forensic psychiatric hospital |
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| Authors: | S B Kleinman |
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| Institution: | Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY. |
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| Abstract: | This paper addresses informed consent to antipsychotic medication of those incarcerated in a forensic psychiatric hospital. The ways in which the unique setting of the forensic psychiatric hospital impinge upon the three components of informed consent--information, voluntariness, and competency--are explored. Special attention is given to the risk-benefit ratio of receiving antipsychotic medication in terms of the liberty interests at stake--freedom of movement, that is, the effects of tardive dyskinesia, and freedom of space, that is, release from the forensic psychiatric facility. |
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