Psychiatric hospital

that moment, I didn’t want to be waking up in a hospital bed surrounded by doctors and nurses sticking IV’s in me with the sound of heart monitors beeping. I didn’t want to be alive then. I wanted to be sandwiched between two piles of dirt, 6 feet under. I asked my mom what time it was and I was shocked to hear that it was 3am, we had been in the ER for over 6 hours. She tells me they are waiting for the next available bed for me in the psychiatric ward. I felt like a failure, I could not even…

can function in regular society, while the abnormal people cannot. These people are usually pushed out of the circles of acceptance and casted as outcasts, or in the case of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, pushed into the Oregon psychiatric hospital and labeled as “crazy.” However, the men in the institution are not “crazy.” Most of them are simply misfits where the institute provides an escape from their reality and the outside world; while it is neither the best nor healthiest…

Caulfield have been criticized heavily throughout the existence of the book. Catcher in the Rye sparked many debates and controversy about the moral issues the book has raised. Throughout the book, Holden Caulfield is narrating from a rest home or mental hospital. In the end, the question that still stirs controversy is if Holden Caulfield should really be in a mental institution? After a thorough investigation, it will be proven that the author does indeed display why Holden should be in a rest…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey in 1962. This story is about a psychiatric hospital in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s, where a new patient named McMurphy, attempts to take power away from the head nurse, who controls the ward in an authoritarian manner. In this presentation, I will be discussing important symbols in the novel, and how they affect the wider world. Before we begin, I’m going to start with an introduction of the main characters. Chief Bromden,…

As my psych rotation at Monmouth Medical Center comes to an end, I took a few moments to reflect on my experience and see what I’ve learned. It was surprising to me to note that my feeling towards this field of nursing was quite the contrary to my original expectations. Initially I assumed that the time we spent on these units would be simple, informative and enjoyable. I knew that my friendly talkative nature would be helpful in this setting where I got to practice the therapeutic techniques…

Tracy Letts once said, “when books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.” Award winning books are often made into movies to expand the viewers of the books. Many times parts are added, taken out, or deleted changing the perspective of the movie and sometimes the plot. Harper Lee’s, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird was published on July 11th, 1960 and turned into a film that was released in 1962. On of the…

Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey was published in 1962. Through the narration of a native Indian suffering from paranoia and hallucinations, it follows the lives of men in a 'fictional' mental hospital. Kesey was an anti-authoritarian participating in experimental LSD trials and working in a psychiatric ward. These experiences impacted his writing as he explored societal conventions and freedom. His work argues that repression maintains power and eliminates individuality. This is achieved…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel description of the events they took place in a psychiatric facility, which emphasizes about hospital protocols, human behaviors, and managerial powers. Comparing McMurphy and the big Nurse known as ratched in this novel, both represents two different kinds of human characteristics struggling for power in a mental institution in their own management style. Patrick McMurphy is a new patient in the treatment ward, he was on admission for the claim of…

semester a famous psychiatric started teaching us cognitive impairments and I got attached to him as a volunteer for projects and researchers in a recognized public university. I also did my internship at the mental health hospital that he owns. I knew that Doctor could teach me lots of things, and that happened, so he trained me to assess cognitive impairments, diagnosed and treatment, misbehavior problems, mental health diseases, and counseling. So when I graduated the hospital offered me a…

he constantly messes with its orderly and mechanical schedule. In other words, in Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Mr. McMurphy is the wrench in the machine that is the mental hospital. Growing…