Comparisons betwen the movie One Flew over a Cuckoos Nest and a visit to a mental institution

In this paper I will be comparing the visit to the State Mental Institution and the

movie One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest. I think the two aspects of metal illnesses

has had a effect on the way I see people who are not mentally stable. The three

topics that are being compared are; staff concerns, spiritual development, and

treatment methods.

In the movie One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest the staff concernments was

different from the staff concernments at the mental institution. In the movie nurse

Ratchet was an bad influence to the patients who needed to be helped in the

social groups. Instead of nurse Ratchet listening to the patients, she patronized

and compressed them into their own kind of thinking. I think instead of helping

them, Ms. Ratchet only mad the worst come out of the patients because of the

way she downed their inner feelings and did not treat them as real people . From

the visit at the State Hospital, the staff seem to real care about the patients and

their mental stableness. I think with most mental illness people can really get

help from people who actually care. If the staff really listen to what their

patients have to say, then a patient can only be lead to better health.

I think in any mental institution spiritual development with God should be

allowed regardless of anything. In the movie, there really was not anything

spiritual that was talked about. I think that if the nurse's and the patients had a

spiritual side to them, then the sessions that took place could have been more

helpful to the patients. In the State Institutionone staff memeber, told us that

spirituality was show in the institution, but not to much because the staff

members do not want to force their religion on the patients.

The ways of treatment to the patients was an huge difference between a

movie and reality. In the movie the shock treatment was heavily used for the

patients who would get out of hand in the sessions. I thought that was nurse

Ratchet crazy way to deal with the patients mental illnesses. In the movie there

was also a time called; Medicine Time, where the patients would line up to take

their medicine. In the State Institution we really did not see any patients lining up

for their medicine, because they were treated like people.