Cuckoo's Nest Depersonalization

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To begin with, The One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was about a man with the name Randle McMurphy. He was institutionalized, put into a status hierarchy, depersonalized, and had to deal with adjustment. This had no effect on him and he was rebellious until he was put through a electroconvulsive treatment that was so strong that it made him almost paralyzed. Chief saw that he was in this shape so he put McMurphy out of his misery and fulfilled what McMurphy had been trying to accomplish from the very beginning of the movie. Therefore, these phases of social control might not always have the same effect on every person that goes through them. Depersonalization is the action of losing one's individuality this is done in many different forms

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