Childhood psychiatric disorders

When McMurphy arrives at the mental institution, his chaotic nature quickly comes into conflict with the head Nurse, Ratched, who controls the ward and all the male patients with absolute authority. McMurphy sees immediately though Nurse Ratched’s tactics of using the patients weaknesses on them, so they would never question her authority. The novel has a heavy focus on the power of women. There are only a few women this novel, but none compare to the cruelty and power of Nurse Ratched. McMurphy…

Until the nineteenth century, mental illnesses was mostly treated in domestic settings. With the establishment of “mad houses”, the settings of care altered to medical institutions, but therapies and treatments remained largely unsuccessful in curing cognitive impairment. The development of psychosurgery offered a solution to the lack of therapeutic interventions for the mentally ill, although looking back on the treatment, many faults can be noticed. However, using a historical lens, the use…

Largely today, the treatment of depression in the United States has become synonymous with taking a pill in order to make all of your troubles go away. As such, the prescribing of anti-depressant medications to patients with depression and other psychiatric disorders by doctors has become a priority to the pharmaceutical industry. Treating depression like one would with a headache has become incredibly lucrative to doctors, patients, and pharmaceutical companies. Evident through the robust…

Authors often use allegory and imagery to create alternate worlds within characters. This concept develops a deeper meaning within smaller moments of the plot. By adding this detail, readers have the opportunity to extend into a character’s past and future. The novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, utilizes symbolism to transform the world of the mental asylum. With varying pasts and illnesses, each individual patient deals with their own battles, creating diverse opportunity for…

The American 1950s. A time of change and revolt. Psychiatric methods were far different and more archaic than today’s treatment measures. Solutions were often violent or manipulative, sometimes led by medication and drugs. Ken Kesey, an American author in the’50s, was, around this same time, paid to test the drug LSD in a government-sponsored experiment. Concurrently, Kesey worked the night shift on a mental ward in Oregon. While working on the ward, Kesey began to speculate that the patients…

earlier they are detected, the easier they are to manage. When a child grows up in an abusive environment; witnessing traumatic events: alcoholic parents, drug addicts, homelessness, foster care, it is not surprising for them to develop a mental disorder. These events are common triggers for a child with a long line of mental illnesses in their families and it is rare for them to escape the cycle; since they most likely lack the proper resources to receive help. The statistics of the criminal…

Identifying OCD Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a heterogeneous condition that involves unwanted distressing thoughts and compulsive acts (Abramowitz et al., 2003). Repetitive thoughts, images, urges, fears, a need for order, aggressive and sexual impulses, and impulses that are experienced as intrusions that need to be neutralized and suppressed are described as obsessions, which usually is due to the doubt that something has been done correctly (Battling persistent, 2005). The obsessions can…

develops gradually between a child and the parent and which serves to ensure the child's protection and psychological security (Gaumon, 2013). When referring to or speaking of attachment or the emotional bond that a child begins to form in early childhood, it is assumed that it is with the child’s mother instead of possibly the child’s biological father or perhaps just a caregiver. As research has shown there is a major correlation between a child’s cognitive and behavioral growth based on the…

From Old to New Kayleigh Hammond CTEC From Old to New Mental asylums weren’t always to help individuals, they were once a place where people were abandoned and left untreated. Almost everything about psychiatric hospitals and asylums have changed in the last 100 years. Some of the most dramatic changes are how people were treated, why they were put into the hospital in the first place, and the gruesome ways they treated those illnesses. I would say most asylums have changed for the good.…

death. In many cases in attempting to link psychiatric abnormalities to the arsonists have been focused on sexual motivation for firesetting. This psychiatric flaw has been linked to urination, homosexuality and cruelty to animals in the childhoods of firesetters have all been documented. Those who set fires other than for profit are frequently called pyromaniacs. In the first research article, Firesetters Admitted to a Maximum Security Psychiatric Institution published in the Journal of…