Psychiatric treatments

percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population” (188). Prisons are not equipped with doctors, physiatrists or medications for the treatment and care these people need, an issue usually followed with violent reactions from poorly coping mentally ill. The cruel incarceration of the mentally ill decreases their ability to recover from the trauma they have survived and increases their…

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) directed by Milos Forman, McMurphy, a man sentenced to a short prison term decides to get admitted to a mental institution instead, hoping to serve his term avoiding prison work and living easier. However, he finds that a nurse with total control is in charge, forcing the patients into obedience. McMurphy decides to rebel and try to change things in the hospital. The mental hospital in the movie is a strong example of a total institution, defined as an…

The Fight for Power Power has the ability to manipulate others and can change their view. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, manipulation is shown in various situations throughout the mental asylum. Firstly, McMurphy manipulates the system of the mental hospital by using Dr.Spivey, who is unaware of what is happening. Secondly, Nurse Ratched is demonstrating manipulation in the way she convinces and treats the other patients in the ward. Lastly, manipulation is shown when McMurphy…

localization and its application in human development to understanding the genetic influences behind psychiatric disorders, my major and research experience demonstrates my interests in developmental genetics and psychiatry. In addition, my experience working with a wide variety of patients from my exposure in the ED at the Mount Sinai Hospital and my interactions with inpatients at the 18N psychiatric unit and outpatients in Bellevue Hospital, demonstrates my clinical experience with patients.…

getting diagnosed with these conditions, and if they are misdiagnosed, the medication prescribed can easily do severe damage. Mark Olfson M.D (A Columbia University psychiatrist and researcher) states: “We have very little research to show how psychiatric medications affect the developing nervous system, for instance. This is a concern.” (Parenting.com) The amount of misdiagnoses in children is concerning, and the amount of medication being wrongly prescribed is a bigger concern. With better…

Free at Last… My overall impression of the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is that it was very captivating and interesting. The initial book for the movie was written by Kenneth Kesey, who at the time was a medical guinea pig himself for psychoactive drug testing at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital, CA. He used the opportunity to interview other patients that were under the influence of those drugs, as well. During his stay at the hospital, he realized that many patients weren’t insane…

off, taking his life. At this point he realizes his worth and checks himself into a psychiatric hospital for an attempt to become normal once again. Through the character of Craig, It’s Kind of a Funny Story suggests that: when an individual is surrounded by concepts and figures that create stress and pressure, initially he or she will attempt to avoid the feared concepts…

with physical forms of abuse, like wetting their sleeves to drive them crazy as a form of treatment. According to the article “Reform and Curability in American Insane Asylums in the 1840s” the author states “Punishment by withdrawing food, and ‘pouring water on their coat sleeves’” (Brown, 14). This quote shows a form of torture the doctor used on his patients, which he believed was the best way of treatment. The way these people were treated was terrible, in the 1840s people realized that…

Dr. Thomas Kirkbride, who sought moral treatment for those afflicted with mental illness, developed the plan. He developed the theory of a restful treatment that would cure patients, aided by the architecture of the building and it's park-like surroundings. Kirkbride plan buildings are known for their spacious corridors, high ceilings, and large windows…

cover up a sexual assault from another patient in the psychiatric ward. The suit accuses of the hospital trying to conceal the existence of video recording and soon the woman told a police officer what had happened, but Davis, the assumed sexual assaulter, denied touching her inappropriately and was not arrested. A couple months later, a police detective viewed the surveillance cameras in the hospital and arrested Davis (Rene Stutzman, Psychiatric patient who was…