One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Psychology

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The movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was published in 1975 and illustrated the story of a man, Randal Patrick McMurphy, who was moved from prison to a mental institution to be assessed on his mental stability. From the beginning, the doctors are skeptical of McMurphy’s mental state and McMurphy himself is skeptical about the practices of the hospital and a specific nurse, Mrs. Ratched. McMurphy completely turns this strictly run facility upside down when he arrives. Due to his witty, spontaneous personality, he quickly was able to make friends with practically all of the patients and this allowed him to really mess with Nurse Ratched. He started by not taking his medication, playing basketball games outside and getting on peoples shoulders, …show more content…

After going back to the ward, he uprooted the place one last time, inviting girls who also brought alcohol to the ward and they all completely destroyed the floor. After this exciting night, there came tragedy. In the morning, Nurse Ratched threatened to tell one of the patient's mothers and tell her of his activities the night before causing him to kill himself due to the distress that caused him as he was mentally unstable. McMurphy, upset with what had happened and how Ratched imposed this distress upon the patient causing him to kill himself, grabbed Nurse Ratched and attempted to strangle her. When he was removed from her, with Nurse Ratched still alive, he was brought to the medical center and given a lobotomy as seen by the scars on his head when he returned. One of his friends he had made, a very tall Native American they called Chief, saw him when he returned and planned on escaping with him that night, but seeing McMurphy in that state he knew that he would not recover and would not have wanted to live that way under Ratched the rest of his life, so he suffocated him and Chief ran

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