HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ken Kesey, Deinstitutionalisation, Anti-Psychiatry
8 Dec 2016
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Ken kesey: one flew over the cuckoo"s nest (1962) Kesey worked as an orderly at a mental institution and had done lsd experiments that the government was holding very much part of the counterculture. Central message: mentally ill are just deviants, rebels that refuse to play by society"s rules. Influenced public perception of ect, lobotomy, institutions, profession itself. Battle between practitioner requirement and patient desire. Ect heavily stigmatized; applied as a way to punish someone. Psychiatric meds the driving force behind deinstitutionalization, but anti-psychiatry movement important as well: movement away from large psychiatric hospitals. In 1962-1977, canada"s psychiatric inpatient population dropped 78%. Put them in psychiatric hospital against their will. Revolving door people in and out of hospitals. Funds saved from hospitals never went to community care. The case for paternalism: some say patients are rotting with their rights on. they call.
