HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ken Kesey, Deinstitutionalisation, Anti-Psychiatry
24 Nov 2016
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Lecture 9b critical perspectives of psychiatry ii. Ken kesey: one flew over the cuckoo"s nest (1962) In contrast to others, captures public imagination: when he told this story, he was speaking to not only students and academics but to whole of society counterculture. Kesey worked as an orderly at a mental institution and had done lsd experiments that the government was holding very much part of society"s rules. Central message: mentally ill are just deviants, rebels that refuse to play by: use of drugs, personal battles are common themes throughout the. Influenced public perception of ect, lobotomy, institutions, profession itself movie: ect heavily stigmatized (punish someone) Psychiatric meds the driving force behind deinstitutionalization, but anti- psychiatry movement important as well: changes way society engages with mentally ill individuals, people with mental illnesses are able to live within the community. In 1962-1977, canada"s psychiatric inpatient population dropped 78% Funds saved from hospitals never went to community care.
