HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ken Kesey, Deinstitutionalisation, Anti-Psychiatry
23 Nov 2016
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Ken kesey: one flew over the cuckoo"s nest. 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. Psychiatric meds the driving force behind deinstitutionalization, but anti-psychiatry movement important as well. In 1962-1977, canada"s psychiatric inpatient population dropped 78% Movement against the idea that mentally ill people are children that need to be cared for. Once able patients should be released from hospital. Forcing people in hospital against their will. Funds saved from hospitals never went to community care. Revolving door - people in and out of hospitals. The case of paternalism: some say patients are rotting with their rights on . They call freedom to be insane an illusory freedom a cruel hoax.
