A variety of treatment techniques were present in the mental facility. We will examine those of McMurphy, Nurse Ratchett, and the head doctor. Nurse Ratchett and the head doctor had similar treatment techniques. Regardless of the condition of the patient both Nurse Ratchett and the head doctor treated the patients as inferiors. The patients were seen as "robots," and were treated the same way regardless of the patient's state of mental health. Nurse Ratchett continuously ordered around the patients instructing them on their daily activities. She showed no emotion towards the patients and had them do what she saw fit, forgetting what was right for each patient's individual needs. The head doctor felt that each patient was in need

The two psychological interventions that were administered to McMurphy while in the mental institution were a lobotomy and shock therapy. A lobotomy is the removal of the portion from the frontal lobe of the brain. This procedure's main goal is to eliminate aggressive or violent behavior. This invention took place in 1935 by Dr. Antonio Egas Moniz. However, by the late 1940s the realization those individuals undergoing lobotomy procedures took place without initiative became apparent. Although the methods of a lobotomy have changed the basic underlying idea of neurosurgery exists today in the form of "psychosurgery" (Encarta 2000). Shock Therapy uses electric current or drugs to control psychotic disorders. In 1933, Dr. Manfred Sakel used drugs and instituted insulin shock to control mainly Schizophrenia. In 1938, Drs. U. Cerletti and L. Bini used electroshock therapy to treat severe depression (i.e. manic depressive psychoses). Alternating current through the brain using parallel electrodes causes immediate unconsciousness and convulsive seizures. Treatment frequency ranges from extreme, such as two to three per day, to mild, such as three times per week, for two to six weeks. The introduction of tranquilizing drugs have all but completely eliminated the use of electro convulsive therapy, as well as insulin shock (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1999-2000).

In conclusion we believe that the film had a few very important meanings. The primary theme was McMurphy's strug

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