Bayviews Experiment

to himself "Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?." (Kesey 64) However, is that all that matters in the hospital? The authority figures in the novel decide who is sane and who is insane, and by deciding it they turn that into a reality. However, they never come to the realization that in reality the insane one's in this situation is infect the authority figure, Nurse Ratched. By the characters using Hitler as a representation of Nurse Ratched as a psychopath they further come to the realization that they infect are sane and Nurse Ratched isn't.

Doyle, Jim, and Peter Fimrite. "Caring for Mentally Ill Criminals Outside of Prison Is Dangerous." America's Prisons. Ed. Clare Hanrahan. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Criminally Insane Taking over State Hospitals." San Francisco Chronicle 22 July 2001. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 26 Feb. 2013.

To illustrate the mental institute, the narrator describes remembering “the trapdoor… and find the girl tied to a bed (Ellison 74).” Many medical facilities have a seclusion room where they isolate patients who are violent or self-destructive, with medical restraints, according to Gale Springer from the American Nurse Today. The girl tied to the bed symbolizes the use of medical restraints and “her clothing torn to rags (Ellison 74),” suggest that the girl was doing harm upon herself or to others. One may think the narrator’s comment on “everything was fixed (Ellison 75),” was about the constant visits to the “bingo hall” looking the same. In the perspective of a mental institute, an

Throughout history there has been a veil of mystery surrounding what truly goes on inside of asylums. This idea is illustrated clearly in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest on multiple occasions. One example can be seen when R.P. McMurphy takes to writing letters to people he knows in order to get them to ask questions about what is really going on. By doing so, he hopes to reveal the truth behind the world he finds himself in. Additionally, in the world of McMurphy, electroshock therapy is still being used. However, this type of therapy was being used less as a cure for illness, and more as a form of discipline, punishment, and pain infliction. According to Weitz in chapter

Asylums of the 20th century were deplorable places created for insane people because of the ignorance of the medical community about helping or treating the mentally ill, the way the asylums were use to get the insane out of the way, and the sheer fact that the hospitals felt the need to withhold the information about what was going on inside the institutions from the public. Some Americans today may believe that in the last few decades we had treated our patients suffering with mental illness with dignity and respect. However, the conditions in which many of them lived and the treatment they received were worse than that of animals. Treatments of these patients were so inhumane that, in Athens, Ohio, an asylum nicknamed the Ridges, a female patient named Margaret Schilling disappeared from one of the active wards. Schilling went missing on December 1, 1978, and on January 12, 1979, her body was found on an abandoned top floor of ward N. 20. The ward had been used for sick, infectious patients, and had been abandoned for years. When searching for Schilling, employees had forgotten to search in ward N. 20. Eventually, when Schilling was found, a maintenance man discovered her body lying on the floor in front of a window. Her body had been laying there for several weeks unattended. According to Carolyn M. Zimmerman, Ünige A. Laskay, and Glen P. Jackson, her body was left laying for so long that it had begun to rot and had left a stain that can still be seen today. This

The Albert J. Solnit Center tour changed my perception of what type of care that is given to patients on the Connecticut Valley Hospital campus. Prior to the visit, I always thought that the patients being treated there were dangerous to the public so this had to be the facility that held the juvenile mentally ill offenders. The reason for this belief is that the Whiting Forensic Division, also on the campus, is known for housing the criminally insane. There have been publicized cases of escape from that maximum-security wing so I was skeptical of even going onto the campus but once I arrived, I knew that I had it all wrong.

Upon receiving this assignment, our group sparked the idea of visiting a mental hospital here in the

Christopher Payne’s Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, is the result of a seven-year survey of America 's vast and mostly abandoned mental institutions of the late 19th century (Payne & Sacks, 2009). Payne’s artistic eye captures images of numerous institutions throughout America and the abandonment that followed. Photographs which display an architectural perspective of 19th Century medicine and, as a by-product, the country’s early history of care for the mentally ill. The buildings he visited were obviously designed for a specific purpose, at a particular time, with a unique architecture to be displayed. Payne’s photographs in Asylum capture a period in the history of American healthcare. Palatial institutions proudly exemplifying the moral treatment of those impacted by mental health issues. Perhaps, Payne captured the images of buried streets, peeling paint from grand entryways, and of infrastructure now being reclaimed by nature, as a reflection of the state of mental health care today.

It wasn’t until the mid-1900’s that the hospital and mental asylum began to vary. A new kind of treatment was introduced, which influenced the idea that with kindness and a quiet, calming location, the mentally ill could get better. This was called moral treatment.

Some enter the ward with this mental disorder while the author supposes some develop this paranoia overtime as Chief Bromden nervously states, "...nobody ever lets loose and laugh, the whole staff'd be in with notebooks and a lot of questions"(17). A collective understanding patients follow when under the watchful eye of authority or each other is to be aware of their own behaviors and emotions. This Reaction points out that one can't gain true perspective on themselves since revealing their true selves might do more harm than

Randle picks up a woman who in her first greeting asks the patients if they are all “crazy” and they respond by nodding their heads. This shows that these individuals have come to adopt being “crazy” as part of their identity, because of being institutionalized and given that label. Further suggestion of this idea is in the scene where Nurse Ratched reveals to Randle that many of the in-patients are at the psychiatric hospital on a voluntary basis, and only few of them are committed, showing their internalization of their identity as mentally ill patients. Another point that can be drawn from the film is the way, which Nurse Ratched conducts the group therapy sessions. The sessions did not appear as beneficial or therapeutic to the individuals participating in them. It is evident that Nurse Ratched, an individual in a position of power, manipulates the patients into confinement in the hospital through her group therapy sessions. She consistently revisits past traumas and difficulties for the patients, which reinforces the symptoms they believe they suffer from which causes them to feel unstable and unable to leave the hospital. Thus, through these examples in the film, it is suggested that individuals admitted to psychiatric hospitals have come to adopt their mental illness as a defining feature of their identity.

Since I got here some weird stuff has been happening to me. Weird visions popping up in my head. Weird e-mails that have been popping up as me sending them but I never sent them, and they were about a patient. There is also this thing in the basement that is from the asylum, like a warden’s office, some doctors offices, and the same room that I saw as a random vision. In the warden’s office there are creepy pictures of doctors making surgeries. Even though all of this stuff scares me I want to explore all of it and see what will happen

Oregon State Hospital in One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest was built using the Kirkbride Plan was its foundation. This meant the patients were to be treated with a high level of ethical respect, opposed to the treatment patients received in the book. The question that now arises is, just how realistic is the novel when it comes to the general rules, layout, and procedures in a mental hospital?

It's crazy to be shocked in the head by electricity. I feel like that's the worst way to live to get shocked when something goes wrong. "They come out of the shock shop sizzling and smoking" (as said in the book)it was also said that it's a free trip but you pay with brain cells instead if money. I feel like shock therapy don't work to fix people cause it basically killing them faster instead of helping them. I feel like you forget things,people and also you lose how your brain proses. McMurphy blames miss.ratched for the ward getting out of control. The patients try to figure out nurse Ratcheds problem. I feel bad because there just making Assumptions for her problems. I feel like McMurphy isn't really sick he just did some mistakes and instead

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