Lobotomy

She continuously mentally abused the patients rather than trying to get them back on track with their lives. Lobotomies and electroshock therapy were given to patients just because they were misbehaving or were not following directions from the Orderlies or Nurse Ratched. Some may say that Nurse Ratched was only doing was she thought would be best for the sake of…

The miracles of modern medicine are self-evident. Have a cough? Take some syrup. Got an infection? Take some antibiotics. Not entirely right in the head? There’s countless dozens of psychiatric medications out there that could placate, even eliminate, your symptoms. There’s no question that these medications are at least somewhat effective treatments to the ills that continue to plague mankind today. Or is there? Medical journalist Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic – the damning…

around him is McMurphy’s inevitable sacrifice which presents itself by way of lobotomy. Up until this point in time, McMurphy gave it all in the eyes of Bromden, this is his final sacrifice; he is “a martyr to them” (Pg.157), and it breaks Bromden from his illusion because of the empathy he holds. Bromden’s empathy makes him able to be impacted by death. Witnessing McMurphy being brought back to the ward after his lobotomy makes Chief realize his power, he rejects Nurse Ratched's power and…

In society it is custom for the men to be dominant over the women. In Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, there is a power struggle between men and women. The characters that demonstrate the power struggle are Nurse Ratched and McMurphy. Nurse Ratched destroys McMurphy and takes what dignity he has, all by being in control of the power that McMurphy and every other man should have. With out the power that men should have, it destroys there self worth, and also takes away their…

Due to the intricacy of the English language, many words, such as stationary and stationery, are commonly confused. At first glance, it is hard to decipher a difference between the two words, as a miniscule letter exchange is all that separates them. However, even though they share similar aspects in regards to spelling when analyzing their definitions it becomes apparent that they share no commonalities. Likewise, iconic protagonists, Winston Smith and Randle McMurphy, and antagonists, Big…

Psychiatric inpatients suffer from a mental disorder that is known as psychological conditions that are as a result of disorganization of mind, personality, and emotions that affect the normal social functioning of an individual. There are several methods that were used in history to treat an inpatient psychologically that affected an individual. Some of these problems were crude and oppressive, but they were desirable by that time (Jennings, 1994). Moral treatment was administered in the 18th…

to receive “help”. But in the early 20th century, that wasn’t the case. Not fitting into a heteronormative role undoubtedly meant a trip to an asylum. The treatments for homosexuality, often referred to as conversion therapy, included: icepick lobotomies, chemical castration, aversive treatments, and masturbatory…

was possessing the patient to escape through the hole in the cranium, curing them of their illness. Later on more cruel forms of “treatment” were developed, such as, hydrotherapy, medically induced comas and the most infamous of all, the lobotomy. In 1949 lobotomies were at an all-time high, it was a quick, and relatively inexpensive method of subduing patients and making them submissive. In 1581 a law was passed that stated that a person that was not of the mental state to understand their…

be severe or they can be mild. Their most heinous punishment was "Now lobotomy, that's chopping away part of the brain." "(31 Kesey). This was their final punishment for controlling people. If you didn't like the way they were acting, you could cut a part of their brain to make the patients not be able to do anything. This is what happened to McMurphy after weeks of trying to control him, which resulted in giving him a lobotomy. He was uncontrollable, but the ward got the last laugh by ruining…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a movie set in the late sixties resembling the state and condition of mental hospitals. The specific mental hospital portrayed in this movie was rather disturbing. The hospital had a horrible ambiance that one would not be comfortable in, consisting of jail-like cells and bars on all of the windows. The methods used to treat the patients in the hospital were not successful at all, only worsening the patients’ conditions. Nurse Ratchet insisting on maintaining a…