By Ken Kesey
Boisterous, ribald, and eventually shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the Sixties that has left an indelible mark at the literature of our time. this is the unforgettable tale of a psychological ward and its population, specifically the tyrannical colossal Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the wade through the eyes of leader Bromden, the doubtless mute half-Indian sufferer who witnesses and knows McMurphy's heroic try to do conflict with the impressive powers that retain all of them imprisoned
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Arguably, the first case from the past that strikes the contemporary ear as a genuine example of schizophrenia is that of a patient in Bethlem Hospital. Confidentiality about patients’ names was not yet mandatory, so we know the patient by name: James Tilly Matthews. His family had hired lawyers in hopes of having him released; he had been in Bethlem already 13 years when Haslam wrote up the case (which tells us something about the course of illness). Here are some of the comments from Haslam’s lengthy description: Mr.
However, subsequent investigations have shown inconsistent findings (Granville-Grossman 1966; Hare and Moran 1979), and it also has been argued that observed maternal age–associated higher risk in schizo- phrenia might be largely confounded by raised paternal age (Hare and Moran 1979; Kinnell 1983). Recently, several population-based epidemiological studies in Denmark, Israel, Sweden, and the United States have provided stronger evidence as to the role of paternal age in schizophrenia (Brown et al.
Meantime, Kahlbaum’s pupil Ewald Hecker (1843–1909) described hebephrenia (Hecker 1871), as a rapidly deteriorating form of adolescent cognitive psychosis, ending in extreme silliness and inappropriateness of thought and affect. MOVING INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY It remained for Emil Kraepelin (1855–1926) to find the red thread that ran through the myriad variants of cognitive psychosis, each with its separate label. Like his teacher, Griesinger, Kraepelin was more interested in symptoms, and in the biological abnormalities he assumed underlay them, than in the minute details of the psychological lives of the many thousands of patients and their case histories that he encountered over the course of his long career.