Psychiatric treatments

Thought Paper – Our Last Guest Speaker Throughout the semester, we have been lucky enough to hear the personal stories of a number of individuals who struggle with mental illness. Each of these stories touched us and make us open our eyes to the fact that mental illness is more than just the cases that we read about in the textbooks; and our final speaker was no different. I also found that there were some striking parallels between Anne’s experiences and the ones that were mentioned in Karp’s…

symptoms, and perhaps connect it to their own lives. From there, they are able to seek what other sources are available. Even after seeking out help from a profession, it may not be as helpful. Many doctors will diagnose their patient, set up a treatment plan, but not actually explain what the diagnosis means. Someone may be diagnosed with bipolar disorder and given a course of action, but have no clue about it being a chemical imbalance in the brain leading to episodes of high and low feelings.…

The study guide describes Emily Mann, the playwright behind Mrs. Packard, as someone who provides a voice for the voiceless, and I’m excited about that. Theatre has the potential to shed light on important subjects, and it’s nice to see an artist using that potential to educate people. I have high hopes for the social context of this production; my horizon of expectations is definitely geared toward a feminist play. It’s so rare (in my experience, at least) to have a play written by a woman and…

Blanche’s Mental Health In the late 1940’s mental illness was a big thing. Some people didn’t know how to deal with it at the time, and some were just sent to mental hospitals for help. In Tennessee William 's, A Streetcar Named Desire, one of his main characters showed signs of a mental illness. Blanche Dubois is dealing with signs of a mental illness, that is from her traumatizing past. Blanche Dubois had a lot of things going on, this could be the reason why she acts like she does. After…

American literature both fiction and non-fiction are important to today’s modern student because they both offer lessons to teach the students. Fiction offers the student a more entertaining way to learn a lesson or about a specific time in history. Non-fiction offers the student a factual lesson in the form of a story. In the fictional novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, a young girl named Deborah is taken to a mental hospital for her schizophrenia by her parents. Deborah at the time is…

An estimated one in four of all adult Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year. These mental disorders can range anywhere from mild mood disorders to extreme, uncontrollable cases of schizophrenia. Criminals who have been found guilty of committing a crime may have difficulty with both serving the punishment and recovering from their mental disease because of the sentence given to them. Often times, this sentence is crippling for the mentally ill individuals, as a…

Upon his arrival at the asylum, McMurphy causes a rather large disturbance to the regular and mechanised schedule of Nurse Ratched’s ward. During his time there, McMurphy manages to change the scene in the ward so that the patients become more empowered. In Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, McMurphy evolves from a regular gambling con man to a hero to a saviour, characterised by his many selfless acts to protect and bolster the other patients. Although McMurphy seems to be just…

There are numerous programs and projects that have been created to help stop the stigma against mental illness by spreading treatment and coping mechanisms to educating others. One program, the Butterfly Project, was created to help support those who self-harm. It encourages a person to draw a butterfly in pen where they would self-harm and name the butterfly after someone who…

Kesey's character of a Randall Mcmurphy as an entrapped christ-like figure shows the conflict of individual freedom and self-expression rebelling against an oppressive society and the overall struggle for power between males and females in the shock treatment scene,…

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…