One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: A Psychological Analysis

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In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the state’s method of dealing with problem prisoners is to have them committed to the mental facility. The only time the patient sees the doctor is the initial meeting, a meeting where the doctor has no clue about the patient’s mental faculties and no knowledge of the patient’s mental history. The generic treatment includes forced medication and group therapy sessions with Nurse Ratchet, there are no individual treatment plans or therapy sessions. If the patient continues to be a problem the treatment escalates to electric shock therapy and potentially a lobotomy. The length of the prisoner’s commitment is undetermined from the start, is completely independent of the original sentence and is wholly dependent