The Continuing Clinicolegal Conundrum of the Boston State Hospital Case

Rogers v. Okin, 478 F. Supp. 1342, 1367, 1369 (D. Mass. 1979).

Appelbaum P.S. Gutheil T.G. , The Boston State Case: “Involuntary Mind Control,” the Constitution, and the “Right to Rot,” American Journal of Psychiatry 137(6): 720–23 (June 1980).

Rogers v. Okin, 634 F.2d 650 (1st Cir. 1980).

Rogers v. Okin, supra note 1, at 1365–67.

Id. at 1366–67.

Grinspoon L. Ewalt J.R. Shader R.I. , Schizophrenia, Pharmacotherapy, and Psychotherapy (Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD) (1972).

Carlson A. , Pharmacological Approach to Schizophrenia, in Schizophrenia: Biological and Psychological Perspectives, ed., Usdin G. (Brunner-Mazel, New York), at 102 (1975).

Berger P.A. Hamburg B. , Mental Health: Progress and Problems, Daedalus 106: 261–76 (1977).

Rogers v. Okin, supra note 1, at 1360.

Klawans H.L. Goetz C.G. Perlick S. , Tardive Dyskinesia: Review and Update, American Journal of Psychiatry 137(8): 900–08 (August 1980); Gardos G. Cole J.O. , Overview: Public Health Issues in Tardive Dyskinesia. American Journal of Psychiatry 137(7): 776–81 (July 1980).

Rogers v. Okin, supra note 1, at 1376.

See Gutheil T.G. , Restraint versus Treatment: Seclusion As Discussed in the Boston State Case, American Journal of Psychiatry 137(6): 718–19 (June 1980).

See Mattson M.R. Sacks M.H. , Seclusion: Uses and Complications, American Journal of Psychiatry 135(10): 1210, 1212 (October 1978).

Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. c. 123 §25.

The Massachusetts statute cited above is an example. See generally Brakel S. Rock R. , The Mentally Disabled and the Law (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL) (1971) at 253–54.

See, e.g., Meissner W.W. , Theories of Personality and Psychopathology: Classical Psychoanalysis, in Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry III ( Kaplan H.I. Freedman A.M. Sabock B.J. eds.) (Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD) (1980).

See Appelbaum P.S. Gutheil T.G. , Drug Refusal: A Study of Psychiatric Inpatients, American Journal of Psychiatry 137(3): 340–46 (March 1980); Gutheil T.G. Shapiro R. St. Clair R.L. , Legal Guardianship in Drug Refusal: An Illusory Solution, American Journal of Psychiatry 137(3): 347–52 (March 1980).

Gruenberg E. , The Social Breakdown Syndrome — Some Origins, American Journal of Psychiatry 123(12): 1481–89 (June 1967).

Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925); Schmerber v. California, 384 U.S. 757 (1966); Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967); Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 (1969).

Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965).

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).

See, e.g., Walen v. Roe, 429 U.S. 589, (1977).

Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. c. 123 §12. See Plotkin R. , Limiting the Therapeutic Orgy: Mental Patients' Right to Refuse Treatment, Northwestern University Law Review 72(3): 461–502 (1977).

Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. c. 123 §25.

Rogers v. Okin, supra note 1, at 1361–62.

Roth L.H. , A Commitment Law for Patients, Doctors, and Lawyers, American Journal of Psychiatry 136(9): 1121, 1121–22 (September 1979).

Wexler D.B. , Mental Health Law and the Movement Toward Voluntary Treatment, California Law Review 62: 671–92 (1974).

Rogers v. Okin, supra note 1, at 1371, n. 38, citing Rennie v. Klein, 462F. Supp. 1131 (D.N.J. 1978) (individual action for injunction); Rennie v. Klein, 476 F. Supp. 1294 (D.N.J. 1979) (class action for injunction).

Rennie v. Klein, 476 F. Supp. 1294, 1307–15 (D.N.J. 1979).

Id.

Rogers v. Okin, supra note 3, at 660.

Mills M.J. , The Right of Involuntary Patients to Refuse Pharmacotherapy: What Is Reasonable, Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law (forthcoming, 1981).

Of course, such a process would accord psychiatric patients the protections set forth in Addington v. Texas, 441 U.S. 418 (1979).

Rogers v. Okin, supra note 3.

Id. at 655–56.

Id. at 656–57.

Id. at 657.

Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. c. 123 § 1 et seq.; §25 providing the contrary assumption.

Rogers v. Okin, supra note 3, at 659.

Id.

Parham v. J.R., 442 U.S. 584 (1979) (the Court of Appeals cited the comments made by the Court concerning the unwieldiness of requiring judicial determinations at all stages of decision-making for mental patients).

Id. at 660.

Id.

Id. at 653.

Goedecke v. Colorado, 603 P.2d 123 (Colo. 1979); In re K.K.B., 609 P.2d 747 (Okla. 1980); A.E. and R.R. v. Mitchell, — F. Supp. ___ (D. Utah 1980).