Destruction of the MindOne Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a film in which rebellion against conformity is shown. The action takes place in a mental health facility where patients receive electroshock treatments and sometimes lobotomies, although both practices are not approved by the medical community. Director Milos Forman uses a real psychiatric hospital called the Oregon State Mental Hospital. Patients are divided into acute patients, who can be cured, and chronic patients, who cannot be cured. They are treated unfairly because they suffer from mental illness. Nursing staff always treat patients without respect. The treated patients are medicated and pitted against each other by the nurses who work there. Patients are given medications to get better, even if they have no effect. Patients who misbehave are punished with electroshock therapy and patients who cannot be controlled receive the ultimate therapeutic lobotomy. Techniques used on patients, such as drugs, shock therapy and lobotomy, never work; it only makes the mentally ill sicker. The first thing that destroys the mind of the mentally ill is medicine. In the film, we see patients forming a line while nurses speak through the intercom. One by one, they come to collect their medicines with a little juice; the staff makes sure they take their medications. The medications are used to treat symptoms such as depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, and bipolar disorders; not all medications work the same, they are used differently for each symptom of mental illness, for example: schizophrenia patients are given chlorpromazine and haloperidol, to name a few. These drugs have powerful side effects like r... middle of paper ... sick patients who suffered from schizophrenia and all the lobotomy did was destroy their minds, rendering them unable to function. The lobotomy technique was used to control people who could not be controlled, instead of using it to help the person. Many people suffered from lobotomy during its use in the late 1940s. These people suffered, so today it is no longer necessary to preform it to destroy the human spirit. In conclusion, techniques such as medication, shock therapy, and lobotomy have been used to a greater extent as a means of control rather than as a service to those experiencing symptoms. of mental ill-being. Many medications used to treat behaviors in the mid-1900s are no longer approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to their serious side effects. What was thought to be a cure ended up being nothing more than a destruction of the spirit..