One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Case Study

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My study of the phenomenon is about the movie One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest making a qualitative question. How is a mental illness person deal with the situation inside the mental institution? I used many qualitative methods to understand how patients are not treated as normal human because when they try to act as normal they are punish and they are isolated from the real world.
Sample (Blackstone: 78) People from were researchers actually gather their information. I used the patients in the institutions for my sample to analyze them. Most of the patients are capable to do physically things and there are few that they depend on the staff members but those patient that are physically good they just need help to cope with their fear or problems. …show more content…

I used this term to show how in the group therapy patients didn’t want to vote when Mcmurphy ask who wanted to see the television and most of the patient didn’t want to raised their hands because they knew that the nurse will not go against her rules and the everyday routine, but they did seem that they wanted to watch the television because after McMurphy was demanding to turn on the television he started to imagining that he was watching the television and the patients went along with him shouting like they were really were watching the …show more content…

One of the things that I observe was how the patients reacted when they went fishing they behave without having any mental illnesses they enjoy the day outside the institution doing different things beside they daily routine. I could see that they need more activity outside the institution so that they can be re integrate in to the society. The institution keep their patients away from the real world they are treat as if they are prisoners and makes them feel rejected from the rest of the humanity because of the way they act and making them to be isolated from the rest of the

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