Psychiatric treatments

Thorazine, an antipsychotic drug was approved by the Food and Drug administration. Not even 10 years later, John F. Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health act to enact federal funding for the building of community-based preventative care and treatment facilities. Although, the act was signed the funding was never truly provided due to the Vietnam War and economic problems. Not only did the act promote the building…

The history of abnormal behavior was prominent in Western culture until Age of Enlightenment. The ancient Greece, people who behaved peculiarly were sent to sanctuaries dedicated to Aesculapius, the god of healing. Incurables were driven from the temple by stoning. A difference of humors, he thought, accounted for abnormal behavior. A sluggish person was believed to have a large amount of mucus. During, the Medieval Times supernatural causes, led to beliefs that abnormal behaviors were a sign…

Having an altered perception of the world, Ken Kesey created the captivating novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In his novel Kesey has constructed a world within a psychiatric ward, which becomes a microcosm of society. In this world the assumed deaf and dumb Chief Bromden, and other timid patients are heavily controlled by Nurse Ratched, an authority apart of the powerful and dehumanising combine. Through figurative language, foreshadowing and motifs readers are warned about the influence…

The Weight of Authority At the time at which Kesey was writing his novel, significant reform was going on in the treatment of the mentally ill in asylums. Many people were appalled at the conditions and abuse in mental hospitals. This abuse of patients along with the advent of certain antipsychotic drugs led to a strong push for deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey utilizes the control panel to symbolize the suffocation of patients individual…

The Birds, which introduced Alfred Hitchcock who known as the master of suspense, as its director in 1963, is one of the oldest horror films in American history. In my paper, I will analyze the uses of narrative in the movie supported by the signs, images and metaphors. The film told about bird attacks to people who lived in Bodega Bay in California (“Alfred Hitchcock - The Birds 1963”, 2016). These attacks took place in a few days. The plot of the movie was well -organized, and it began…

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried - Winston Churchil. Democracy is not really by the people, there is always someone who actually controls everything. In the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the notorious1 big nurse, Nurse Ratched rules the mental hospital and keeps everyone under her control. Democracy is cynical and in the novel it is developed through the diverse2 events occurred in the hospital. Through an…

society creates through the act of self destruction. The idea of society causing a person’s own self destruction is contradictory, however it is a main theme in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In the novel, patients are admitted to a psychiatric ward when they stray away from following social norms, not because they are sick. The ward is run by Nurse Ratched, a controlling woman who is ironically all about manipulation instead of rehabilitation. She tears down the patients and…

The quantitative article picked is "Use of a Postfall Assessment Tool to Prevent Falls." (Gray-Miceli, Ratcliffe, & Johnson, 2012). The introduction describes the use of an assessment tool, to not only assess falls but that will be utilized for future falls. The review of the literature gives a brief summary of the importance of a before and after assessment of falls, test time limitations and the assessment tool used. The discussion of the methodology included the importance of stopping falls,…

Many people have been dealing with their own mental disorder because mental disorders would be always follow them and be at their side by side. They could and they couldn’t overcome their mental disorder because some of them know there is no help that will make their lives easier or better. The mental illness takes control of people. Few mentally ill people can easily bear their illness because they know that their having mental disorder makes their “normal” living extremely difficult. They…

who 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…