Psychiatric medication

The problematic christ, and struggle between male and female power. Veronica Roth once said, “Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.” In the Novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 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…

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…

Every day is the same to you; you wake up, read the paper, and drink your coffee. You work at the East Cambridge Prison, where you keep the inmates in order by whipping them, chaining them up, and by not giving them food. You know that the conditions are wrong and inhumane, but it’s a well-paying job. You don’t speak out because you’re worried about your family and three kids at home who need to be fed. Stories like these occurred in prisons and mental institutions all around the world. The…

During the Victorian Era, there was a change in the views towards mental illness as people began to realize the conditions and treatments towards patients of the mental institutions. Jane Eyre follows the story of a girl who is living through the social discriminations of the Victorian Era and observes the way the mentally ill were treated. In most cases, judging someone’s mental health was closely related to gender and where they stood on the social scale. Charlotte Bronte’s accurate yet…

Years later, I was a journalist in London when I was asked to report on a case about a criminal mental patient, Bryan, who was petitioning to get released. So I caught a train to Broadmoor – London’s premier mental institution for the criminally insane. I began to yawn uncontrollably on the way there, which apparently is what dogs do when anxious - they yawn uncontrollably. Once I arrived, the staff took me through gate after gate until, eventually, we got to the wellness center – the place…

In the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest a loud and boisterous man by the name of Randall Patrick McMurphy in an attempt to cheat the system is committed to a mental institution. What he does not know is that once he is committed only the head nurse can let him leave. After McMurphy realizes this he confirms this causes one of the patients named Cheswick to commit suicide. Almost immediately after Cheswick’s suicide McMurphy begins to upset the established order of Nurse Ratched and over…

The news stories about those being mistreated in asylums are not as public or as rampant as they were fifty years ago either. Conditions in some asylums are still a violation of human rights. Many patients do not have beds due to a lack of funding. They also live in places with feces covering the walls and mice infestations. They are basically living in their own excrement along with other vermin. The people that were released from the asylums that were shut down did not have proper care or…

Slim Over 50 So you made it! You 're over the hill now at age 50 and it seems as though you 're carrying around a spare tire or two. The cute little pouch you once had is now fully grown and well, you 're thinking it 's not so cute anymore. In that case, are you thinking about losing the extra weight? Well, as we all know, it 's much harder to get rid of fat once we reach a certain age and at age 50, fat hangs around everywhere! It 's around your stomach, hips, thighs, back and arms.…

The clubhouse model came about after the 1950’s deinstitutionalize movement. The deinstitutionalize movement consisted of many state mental hospitals closing, leaving many homeless and incarcerated. Thousands of people did not have access to medication as well as had no one to case manage their situations. The clubhouse model follows the model of the Fountain House in New York. The Fountain House is a place that became a type of safe haven to those whom were deinstitutionalized, giving them a…

The treatment of mental patients has greatly improved since the 1960s, but it still is not perfect. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey and published in 1962. Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic patient in an insane asylum who pretends to be dumb and deaf to avoid confrontation, narrates what happens in the ward. When authority hating Randle McMurphy is committed to the ward, he notices the head nurse, Nurse Ratched, manipulates her patients to keep her authority, rather…