Psychiatric treatments

It is a fairly broad question to ask how people obtained these mental illnesses. There are a multitude of reasons. It is rather hard to determine internal causes in comparison to the environmental factories. Much of that is speculation on terms of the therapist. However whatever internal causes that have been discovered so far are critical towards finding more about how mental illness occurs. For example, autism has low brain growth and connectivity in the channels of the brain. Depression has a…

Carver can’t believe his luck when he is adopted by Mr. Hawking of the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency. With Carver under his wing, he quickly starts testing him and his detective abilities. Making him figure out how to reach the agencies secret building, which neither Carver or anybody has ever heard of. Once reaching the Pinkerton Agency he is blown away with the luxurious building filled with retro detective gadgets. Then an agent tells Carver how Mr. Hawking, “lives among the mad.”…

obvious. What I do like about Faucault’s narration, however, is the way he emphasizes the position of physicians in Tuke’s system. As Samuel Tuke founded his mental asylum, the York Retreat, he made physicians and therapists the ones in charge of treatment, starting with the admission of patients and ending with individual recommendations for every patient’s health state. I think that Faucault’s use of quotes in this part is most relevant. I also like the way he describes Tuke’s rather…

In the show Blue blood one of the main characters works in the district attorney office in New York City and her name is Erin Reagan. In this episode the case she is working on is about Lenny a mob boss that she knows had been linked to many crimes. As a district attorney it is her job to put criminals in jail but she cannot put Lenny in jail because she cannot get enough evidence against him. She finds a 15 year old cold case about a drug dealer named Mr. Green that she thinks Lenny is somehow…

There are 150 homeless people housed in the Central Iowa Shelter in the summer, and 400 cram into the same space to escape the cold in the winter months. 33% of homeless people have a severe mental illness as well, which adds to, if not initiates, their hardships (Homeless Mentally Ill par. 1). I once encountered one of these people at a soup kitchen. The man was very open about his mental illness and his positive experience in a mental hospital. Unfortunately, the mental hospital was shut down,…

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…

was a cold-hearted reality for the mentally ill. Not only were the mentally ill treated horrible in “institutions” back in the mid-1800s to mid-1900s but outside they were not treated any better. In this research paper I am going to look into the treatment of the mentally ill in the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. Predicated on accumulated information, it is known that mental institutions in this duration were cruel and they brought immense damage…

1962. Through the narration of a native Indian suffering from paranoia and hallucinations, it follows the lives of men in a 'fictional' mental hospital. Kesey was an anti-authoritarian participating in experimental LSD trials and working in a psychiatric ward. These experiences impacted his writing as he explored societal conventions and freedom. His work argues that repression maintains power and eliminates individuality. This is achieved with use of setting, characterisation and description…

How and why are the two social groups - staff and patients - represented in a particular way (in narrative and social terms)? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey. The book is a critique of mental health institutions and their incapabilities of dealing with patients - influenced by Kesey’s own experiences as a voluntary medical guinea pig and nurse’s aid, as illustrated in the autobiographical ‘Sketches’ preface. The patients are represented in ways that reflect the…

False Insanity in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey depicts what is like inside an insane asylum and how the patients minds may become more distorted than when they first arrived. It is quite noticeable to the reader how patients are mistreated and falsely diagnosed. Randle McMurphy’s arrival portrays sanity entering into the asylum, contrasting to what the institution is meant for. McMurphy’s sane state of mind allows him to control the…