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Ken Kesey was born September 17th 1935 and died November 10 2001 (age 66.) He was an american novelist and short story writer with a love for writing. He wrote "One Flew Over the cuckoos nest" in 1960 followed by short stories . He was a very creative writer with a true passion for what he did.

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"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" had a deep and lasting effect on the fields of psychiatry. There was a distrust for how psychiatry was being used, and how it was often more in the interests of society than in the interests of those with mental illness(es). There were different treatments (shock therapy, different drugs, different procedures). There was also much stigma against people with mental illness; they were seen as scary, less than human, and often had their rights taken away in mental asylums. The book and movie specifically gave insights to the negative effects of shock therapy and how horrible it truly was.

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(Kyla)“Milos Forman” was the director of the film. It was created in 1975 and filmed at Oregon State Hospital. The movie was based on the book “ Ken Kesey” wrote in 1960. The film stars “Jack Nicklaus.”

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People's Opinion on the Movie (by Katie)

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People's Opinion on the Movie (by Katie)

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The movie "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" won 5 Oscars in 1976. These were for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Best Writing; Screenplay Adapted From Other Material. These are just a handful of the awards that it won.
In Sweden, the movie was shown in theaters for eleven years. Despite all this positive attention that the movie got, however, Ken Kesey never saw it and was disappointed with some of the choices that were made when adapting it into a movie.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel written by notorious deadhead and proprietor of hallucinogenic drugs Ken Kesey. The novel is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital during the 60’s. Protagonist Randal Patrick McMurphy experiences the difficulties of these types of institutions in this era, and builds an anti-establishment attitude as he sees all the corruption.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was first adapted into a Broadway production by Kirk Douglass in 1963, casting himself as the main character, RP McMurphy. In the earliest days of the project, Douglass attempted to contact director Milos Forman, who apparently underwent a mental breakdown while writing his film The Fireman's Ball, and refrained from leaving his apartment building for months. This movie had everything Douglass was looking for to turn OFOTCN into a motion-picture--setting, character design, etc. Kirk Douglass mailed Forman a copy of the original book  to begin working together--but the package never reached it's intended reciever, and thus Forman believed Douglass had broken his promise and resented him for it. It took roughly a decade to get the scandal sorted out.

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Ken Kesey is best known for participating LSD drug tests done by the CIA which were known as MK-ultra. These tests were called the LSD parties. He was also known for starting up a plan to drive a bus across the country distributing drugs and going to concerts along the way.

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Setting/Theme of Isolation Significane: Angus Oakes 

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Setting/Theme of Isolation Significane: Angus Oakes 

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is set in an insane asylum in the late 1950s. The Asylum is ruled by  Nurse Ratched, a women who in herself does not have much strength, but her rule over the establishment is strict. Since she has absolute control, she can treat the staff and patients however she wishes; thus, blackmailing and unpleasant life is common. Nurse Ratched is focused on keeping the outside out and the inside in. When  McMurphy, the main character, shows up at the asylum, its isolation from the outside world is broken.  McMurphy offers a taste of the outside world and gives everyone and is "like a breath of fresh air." Since Nurse Ratched is set on keeping the outside out,  McMurphy is obviously a threat. Isolation is a major theme in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and it shows readers (and viewers) how its battle against confinement causes madness and insanity.

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The film "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" went on the 48th Oscar Ceremony and was rated 9 out of 10. This film is considered to be one of the greatest American films. Although the novel was a little different. It is one of the most challenged books, but it also has been banned from reading in certain public schools.

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Ken Kesey was a participant in a project that was CIA funded called MKULTRA. This study included having people try many different types of drugs including LSD. His time in this study and in the hospital was what inspired him to write "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". When the book was published it was immediately a success and it won many awards.

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The film was recognized by the United States Library of Congress, they judged it to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a 1975 film directed by Milos Forman that forever changed people's perspective on American psychiatry.  The film exposed the methods of treatment to the patients in asylums, and viewers experienced heavy repulsion once they were presented with the ugly truth of these people's lives.  Psychiatrist Doctor Frank Pittman explains the practices and protocols that he was required to participate in saying, "Back in my training in the early 60s, we gave shock treatment, particularly at that time as a treatment for agitated depression. It worked more quickly than the drugs we had then – more quickly than the drugs we have now – but it left me squeamish. The brain is much too delicate, much too mysterious, for us to mess with."  He also stated that the book had a great affect on mental institutions all over America, for the backlash of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest caused the patients in asylums to have more rights, such as carrying more non-psychotic drugs, which helped the patients to lead more stable lives.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is influential because the characters in the movie advocate for better treatment in mental health facilities. After seeing the rhetoric between Jack Nicholson and Nurse Ratchet, physiologists began to research healthcare professionals in the system. Treatments started changing.

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Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado in 1935. He went to Stanford and became as an experimental aide in a hospital as well. He wrote "One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest" in the 60's and later wrote "Sometimes a Great Nation". He is described as a novelist of the hippie generation. He died in Eugene, Oregon in 2001. He was a great wrestler and football player in high school, and in university he enjoyed theatre as well. Kesey married his high school sweetheart before the publishing of his first book. While he served as a drug experimenter in a hospital, he was given a mind-altering drug which shaped his first novel. This work explores the abuses of the system (or The Man) against an individual. When the film based on the novel came out, he hated the script and refused to support the film. Kesey was also known to write while on LSD, which gave his philosophies on the world and heightened his explanations of his views throughout his works.

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Still Controversial now (Cameron Shanken)

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Still Controversial now (Cameron Shanken)

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One flew over the Cuckoos nest was written in 1959, but they're is still some debate on whether or not this novel should be used for educational purposes in high school. SInce the year 2000, schools throughout the country have heard complaints from parents about this book being read. The say that the book teaches young adults that when they get mad or angry at someone, they can just, "Axe Them out". According the the article, this refers to one specific incidence in the Novel. Yet, they're are other complaints. The use of drug use, prostitution and torture in a mental hospital.

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Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado. During the period Kesey participated in government studies involving hallucinogenic drugs including mescaline and LSD so supplement his income.In 1965 Kesey was arrested for possession of marijuana and subsequent faked suicide.

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In the book, Kesey tarnishes the speaks the truth about electroconvulsive therapy. It gave a voice to these issues and the problems in psychiatry at the time. Many of these institutions that used this type of therapy became very angry and wanted to find a way to cover themselves and create a better view of this method of therapy. His book also made anti- psychotic drugs more mainstream and less taboo. His work created an image of inhumanity around the use of shock therapy, which is arguably extremely important. There were people that did not agree with his views and experiences, of course, and bashed him for his writing.

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Directed by Milos Forman, this film got a lot of positive feedback from critical acclaimed status and many Oscars. The creators ran into many issues with wanting to change the ending and wanting to adapt it away from the book, which partly is the case for the final product but nearly as much as it was discussed during the creation. Some scenes were also shot without the actors knowledge; the actors lived in the ward while they were filming so conflict throughout that definitely arose. Forman and Nicholsen had conflict over what the film should be about because both of their interpretations from the book were different. Although there was conflict during the film, afterwards the movie had one of the longest runs in theatre in history. Kesey also had refused to see the film because he hated the script so much, so we will never know what it would have been like if the film was shot through Kesey's eyes.

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Kesey was actually against the film being shot, he reluctantly agreed to let it be shot. Kesey made sure the film was shot how he wanted it, and was still unhappy with it, despite its positive reciprocation 

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Kesey was actually against the film being shot, he reluctantly agreed to let it be shot. Kesey made sure the film was shot how he wanted it, and was still unhappy with it, despite its positive reciprocation 

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Kesey was friends/ partners with Hunter S. Thompson and they traveled and wrote pieces together. They both had a huge influence on the psychedelic culture.

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The book's publication contributed to a backlash against the entire psychiatric treatment system in the US in the 1960s. Huge, spirit-crushing state institutions – like the Oregon facility later depicted in the film – began reducing their excessive resident numbers and granting patients more rights.

It also catalysed the development of more effective anti-psychotic drugs that allowed more patients to be treated at home and live more normal lives.

Amid a minor revival in ECT in the early 1990s, The New York Times noted that thanks to the film's memorable images, "in the public mind 'shock therapy' has retained the tarnished image given it by Ken Kesey's novel: dangerous, inhumane and over-used".

Yet for many mental health professionals the book and film also had a negative effect. A 1983 study involving 146 university students found "considerable negative changes in attitude" towards people with mental health problems among those who had seen the film.

A small disclaimer, this is an extract from the site below. I own nothing, and I will not pretend to do so.

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Ken Kesey's 1962 book, and the film version released 13 years later, are both credited with irreparably tarnishing the image of electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, and quickening its departure from mainstream mental health care.

In the story, R.P. McMurphy - played by Jack Nicholson in the film - is a misbehaved convict who ends up in an asylum after faking insanity to escape hard labour while in prison. Like other patients in the facility, he finds himself subjected to ECT.

In the famous words of Nurse Ratched, the treatment "might be said to do the work of the sleeping pill, the electric chair and the torture rack. It's a clever little procedure, simple, quick, nearly painless it happens so fast, but no one ever wants another one. Ever."

Dr Frank Pittman, the renowned American psychiatrist, has said the publication of the book "had an enormous effect" on his field.

"It gave voice, gave life, to a basic distrust of the way in which psychiatry was being used for scoiety's purposes, rather than the purposes of the people who had mental illness," Dr Pittman told The Discovery Channel.

"Back in my training in the early 60s, we gave shock treatment, particularly at that time as a treatment for agitated depression. It worked more quickly than the drugs we had then - more quickly than the drugs we have now - but it left me squeamish. The brain is much too delicate, much too mysterious, for us to mess with."

The book's publication contributed to a backlash against the entire psychiatric treatment system in the US in the 1960s. Huge, spirit-crushing state institutions - like the Oregon facility later depicted in the film - began reducing their excessive resident numbers and granting patients more rights.

It also catalysed the development of more effective anti-psychotic drugs that allowed more patients to be treated at home and live more normal lives.

Amid a minor revival in ECT in the early 1990s, The New York Times noted that thanks to the film's memorable images, "in the public mind 'shock therapy' has retained the tarnished image given it by Ken Kesey's novel: dangerous, inhumane and over-used".

Yet for many mental health professionals the book and film also had a negative effect. A 1983 study involving 146 university students found "considerable negative changes in attitude" towards people with mental health problems among those who had seen the film.

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How 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' changed psychiatry

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Ken Kesey's 1962 book, and the film version released 13 years later, are both credited with irreparably tarnishing the image of electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, and quickening its departure from mainstream mental health care. In the story, R.P.

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Ken Kesey was born on September 17, 1935 in La Junta, Colorado. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1957, and began writing One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest shortly after, which was published in 1962. During this time of writing, Kesey started indulging in hallucinogenic drugs for governmental studies. He is known for writing his novels while he was on LSD.

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Ken Kesey was born in 1935 in Colorado. Later in his life he served as an experimental subject in a hospital for the US Army.He was given mind altering drugs which fueled his inspiration for his novel One Bird Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Ken Kesey considered himself as a cross between an 1950's and 1960's hippie. He was vastly interested in the psychedelic world of drugs and their affects. Some other books Ken published were: The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test, Sailor Song, and Sometimes a Great Notion