Lobotomy

Treatments during institutionalization were considered to be cruel and unusual methods compared to modern day psychiatric treatments. They included trephination, bloodletting and purging, isolation and asylums, insulin coma therapy, metrazol therapy, and lobotomy (Hussung, 2016). Bloodletting and purging were seen as useful for mental illnesses because it was thought to let out impurities in the body that caused imbalances in the ill person's system. Isolation and asylums became popular in…

sacrifice himself for the whole. Another example appears when McMurphy is eventually going to have the lobotomy and becoming a vegetable. Bromden describe McMurphy as, “But they can’t do that look. There’s nothin’ in the face. Just like one of those store dummies¬¬” (321). Kesey uses simile to compare McMurphy with a store dummies emphasize how fake and how hollow McMurphy becomes after the lobotomy. The therapy destroyed him completely, and from Bromden’s word, it…

To conclude, there has been a lack of care to those who suffer from mental illness. Asylums have been shut down, and most of the mentally ill have been confined in prison when they deserve to have better care. The Peter Wagner published in Prison Policy Initiative his article of “Incarceration is not a solution to mental illness,” where he informs how unfair the “solution” for mental illness is unfair. On paragraph six, Wagner states, “A variety of different studies were cited by Overby,…

Most people who were mentally ill in hospitals were treated as prisoners. They were put in dungeons, chained, and beaten. Urbanization allowed for more institutions for the mentally ill but the conditions in which they live did not improve. They were still being treated as criminals and most did not have access to light or heat. In the early 1800’s, Dorothea Dix watched this mistreatment occur in Massachusetts and began to establish over 30 hospitals that focused on the treatment of the mentally…

“A hero or heroine is a person or character who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, displays courage or self-sacrifice. “ When most people think of the word hero, one might think of a person with power helping those who are in trouble, but heroism can be anybody. A hero can be a teacher, a mother or father, or even a person such as myself. Heroes are everywhere you look, you never know what influence you may have on someone. Somethings that can be simple to one…

ratched, he was tortured with many rounds of electroshock and a lobotomy. However, McMurphy could have ended his suffering if he just admitted that he felt pain. But, since he did not, he was tortured with electroshock therapy until Nurse Ratched ordered a lobotomy which turned him into a lifeless chronic. The suffering he ordered on himself helped others in the long run though. Ever since Nurse ratched ordered his many electroshock and lobotomy, she has lost control of the hospital and many…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: A Literary Analysis In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, readers are thrust into the unknown and sometimes terrifying world of mental patients at a psych ward. In the novel, narrator Chief Bromden describes the events that happen in his day to day life after a new ward patient, Randle McMurphy, is admitted. Throughout most of the story, McMurphy constantly challenges the Big Nurse in charge of the ward, Nurse Ratched, and ridicules her futile…

following parts of the essay, the moral career of McMurphy and his career among the inmates will be discussed. McMurphy changes his identity from prisoner to inmate of mental institution, an offender of the authority in the total institution to a lobotomy vegetable in the film. With the change of identity and the series of incidents in the institution, McMurphy changes his self-identity and image, relationship with other inmates and his image among the other inmates. From the changes, we could…

The separation of soul and body has captivated philosophers for ages. Most religious people believe and support the idea of dualism because frankly the other options are a little sad and disappointing. If mind and body are the one and the same, then the idea of soul and religion is redundant and if that is the case, then nothing of you exists when your body doesn’t. Foder not only dismisses the theory of dualism, he also supports a radical functionalist theory of mind. According to him humans…

Six months after the horrific massacre at a high school in Columbine, Colorado, writer Anna Quindlen chose to take a different view than most of the nation. Instead of blaming the mentally troubled kids, she blamed the system for failing to help these kids and give them the treatment they deserved. She argues that the ignorant mindset of adults in America is what holds back the system from being able to successfully help the ill students from receiving the help that they need. Anna Quindlen was…