Psychiatric hospital

written by Ken Kessey in 1962, the story of a man named Randal Mcmurphy who is brought onto the ward after a court decision, is told through the eyes of a schizophrenic named Cheif Bromden who has frequent hallucinations. When Mcmurphy arrives to the hospital there is a change in the hierarchy as he constantly undermines Nurse Ratched's authority and oppressive behavior. As much as this story is about Mcmurphy’s christ like presence, it is also about the struggle of demaculation and feminine…

Psychology in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Jacob P. Brugh Fort Mill High School  Psychology in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest the film is based off of a critically acclaimed book by the same name written by Ken Kesey. Kesey intended the novel to explore psychological principles and took psychedelic substances to immerse himself in the world of the patients he characterized (Lehmann-Haupt, 2001). The film reflects this, and psychological principles are…

mental hospital. Unfortunately, the mental hospital was shut down, and he was forced onto the streets, relying on soup kitchens to survive. His case is not rare by any means; in an act known as deinstitutionalization, mental hospitals are shut down across the nation in the name of producing revenue. Deinstitutionalization…

Open your mind and imagine what it would be like to be in a Mental Hospital. Did you imagine rash behaviors from the patients and the staff? How about the invasive treatments and the cot like beds with thin blankets you would have had to sleep with? Before the 1940’s, the stories that most people have heard coming out of Mental Hospitals were very brutal. However, in recent years, Mental Hospitals have changed in many helpful ways. This can be seen in the ways patients are treated and the way…

Kesey illustrates the repercussions of labelling and it’s inadequacies. The separations that exist within and outside the hospital allow for fear, dominance, and prejudice, and Kesey exhibits this through the behaviours and interactions of staff and patient. Through subtle threats and a careful dynamic in the environment of the hospital, Kesey shows how the institution is insidious at heart, using emasculation as a platform to bolster the staff’s dominance and personal…

A mental hospital should be a place for healing, but instead it is seen here as more of place that abducts a person’s freedom. Randle McMurphy brings a fresh sense of hope and joy to the institution, allowing the other patients that there is more to life than being cooped up inside a hospital. McMurphy truly cares about his new friends, and distinguishes which people need the most help and comforts…

You ask me what is anger? Look at me. Here I am in a psychiatric clinic confessing my issues to a person that gets paid to tell me that I am crazy. I want you to listen to me. Listen to me with an open mind. I do not need your judgement. Listen to these words with understanding. Put yourself in my neglected, hurt, and troubled shoes and listen. Anger is waking up every morning still thinking about that bad thing that happened to you all those years ago. You know, when your bestfriend kissed…

“Oh the bitch, the bitch the bitch”. McMurphy then stares at him with a confused face, but then understands why he acted that way. Dale Harding represents a homosexual man in the 60s. Harding is voluntarily in the institution and has been in the hospital for a long time to shelter himself from society . In the 1960s majority of states in America had Sodomy laws which were laws that punished individuals who were punished for having anal or oral sex, this laws targeted gay men. Sodomy was seen as…

The modern drama, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman explores what it is like for patients in a State Mental Hospital. Focusing on McMurphy, the main character in the book, struggling to restrain to the harsh rules in the ward. Even a selfish individual when faced with an oppressive system, makes the ultimate sacrifice to help others. As seen in the beginning of the play, McMurphy is extremely confident and self-centered. “Billy, you tell him that R.P. McMurphy is used to bein’…

determine his sanity. Unfortunately, like in many other hospitals, this institution is corrupted in the way that persuades the patients that they are unable to function outside of the hospital. They are also told that any disruptive behavior represents illness, and those who are ill get treated with electroshock therapy. The patients are controlled by an underlying, unspoken fear to disobey, which is illustrated in many forms throughout the hospital. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the…