Schizophrenia, manipulation and the human battle against literally mind-numbing conformity are all elements in the stage adaptation of Ken Kesey's powerful novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) escapes work on a prison farm by feigning mental illness, but he finds himself in a far more coercive institution than the one he left behind. A wisecracking, rebellious patient and prisoner, 38 years old, is escorted into the ward where he meets …showed first 75 words of 1415 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1415 total…of Acutes and Chronics, Geriatrics and the Disturbed. Patients who underwent electroshock therapy for depression had an unexpectedly high relapse rate in a study that has refocused attention on the procedure 25 years after One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest made it seem like torture. References Davis, Stephen F. & Palladino, Joseph J., (1997). Psychology: Third Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc. Kesey, Ken, & Milos Forman (1975). One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Republic Pictures.