Essays Tagged: "Psychiatric hospital"

The Bell Jar.

eceives outpatient shock treatment in Walton, Massachusetts. Then she spends a short time in a city psychiatric hospital. Esther then is moved to a private hospital in New England.Esther Greenwood is ... d is given outpatient shock treatment, after which she attempts to commit suicide. She is sent to a psychiatric hospital where she recovers.Mrs. Greenwood is quite held back when it comes to expressin ...

(3 pages) 74 0 3.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. This is a book report on the Bell Jar. It describes the characters, plot, and other stuff.

eceives outpatient shock treatment in Walton, Massachusetts. Then she spends a short time in a city psychiatric hospital. Esther then is moved to a private hospital in New England.Esther Greenwood is ... d is given outpatient shock treatment, after which she attempts to commit suicide. She is sent to a psychiatric hospital where she recovers.Mrs. Greenwood is quite held back when it comes to expressin ...

(3 pages) 96 2 3.2 Sep/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The character of Chief Bromden in the story "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey. the essay analyses the character of Chief Bromden.

His paranoia mostly takes the form of hallucinations, he believes there are hidden machines in the hospital that physically and psychologically control the patients. "I creep along the wall quiet as ...

(3 pages) 105 0 4.5 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

BBP Depicted In Girl Inturrupted: This is a paper that compares the movie Girl Inturrupted to the actual symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.

ment, to the disorder? We will discuss and compare these issues.Susanna Kaysen spent two years in a psychiatric hospital, McLean. Twenty-five years after her release she began to write a memoir about ... ne percent actually commit suicide.In the movie, it was a suicide attempt that landed Kaysen in the psychiatric hospital. She consumed fifty aspirins and a bottle of vodka. The suicide attempt was onl ...

(6 pages) 151 1 4.1 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

How does the film "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" explore rebellion?

ould leave whenever they wanted, but they failed to see the many opportunities they had outside the hospital, and it was only the committed patients who had enough insight to show the others what they ...

(3 pages) 64 1 4.1 Aug/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

How I deal with Schizophrenia.

had today was with the nurse that gave me my breakfast and medicine. I've called the Tinley Mental hospital home for the last seven years. They let me out and then I forget to take my medicine and I' ... o see me today on my birthday, I would rather them not see me. I feel very ashamed to be in a metal hospital, where you are automatically brand a Crazy person, or a nut. My dad had very high blood pre ...

(2 pages) 63 4 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

Hannah Green - Never promised you a rose garden

, but she survives this attempt. Then her mother decides that Deborah should be treated in a mental hospital. She is put in the B-ward, which is a ward for the 'light'cases. She develops a great band ... s improved herself enough she even can go live on her own, under supervision, but out of the mental hospital.She makes a good start, she passes her exams and gets her life on track, but then she falls ...

(3 pages) 30 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest- Forman Vs. Kesey

affects both the accessibility and the impact of the two texts.In Ken Kesey novel, the story of the psychiatric hospital is told through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a half Native American Indian, who f ...

(4 pages) 50 0 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The Catcher in the Rye" by: J.D. Salinger

inally realizes he cannot win his battle. He returns home to his parents and is obviously sent to a psychiatric hospital to "rest" before retiring to the world that has defeated him.THEMESThis book is ...

(2 pages) 37 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Life of a Psychiatrist

om what the patient describes and reacts by prescribing medicine or more severely sending them to a psychiatric hospital("Psychiatry ). There have been many spectacular advancements since the nineteen ...

(3 pages) 30 0 4.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Alittle about Dorthea "Dragon" Dix

institution was finally made in Ewing Township, New Jersey. Despite her refusal, there were hospitals, memorials, and even schools named after her. Unfortunately, she was only mentioned in fiv ...

(1 pages) 20 0 3.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Theme study (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 and Bless the Beasts and Children) the study of individuality vs. conformity

and why does the main character not conform?In 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest' the setting was a psychiatric hospital which reflected society and the order that was forced on the patients reflected ...

(4 pages) 60 0 3.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study

Proposition 184 in California "Three Strikes and You're Out!"

o doubts about his involvement in what was ruled out to be a suicide and he had once escaped from a psychiatric hospital. When this information was released, the nation was in an outrage. How was this ...

(12 pages) 142 0 3.7 Mar/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Mental institutions through history

es, batty;... the discrimination against those with mental illnesses has been around for centuries. Psychiatric illnesses have proven over time to be the most complex of illnesses to treat as they inv ... ve biological, psychological, social and cultural components. A major problem for psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses is that they do not have the will to chose who they want to treat, like ordinary ...

(13 pages) 116 2 4.6 Jul/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

"Girl, Interrupted"

Disorder and what life is like in a mental institution. Susanna recounts her two years in a Boston psychiatric hospital, McLean, detailing her thoughts on everyday life and the people around her. We ...

(3 pages) 13 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Incredible Edible Enigma: Circus Peanuts

e who would willingly seek out and ingest a circus peanut. (And one of them was later admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Make of that what you will.) But what are Circus Peanuts? Objectively, ...

(2 pages) 1166 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A fictional magazine article based on Bruce Dawe

. One day, the inevitable happened, John had a mental breakdown. That day he checked himself into a psychiatric hospital, I just sat on my bed and cried. An endless stream of tears rolled down my eyes ... eam of tears rolled down my eyes. I just couldn’t stop.Five days later John came back from the psychiatric hospital to Karen. “I had discovered a new outlook on life itself”, I decided ...

(4 pages) 10 0 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

le of obsessive-compulsive disorderMcMurphy bursts on the well-ordered, claustrophobic scene of the psychiatric ward like a psychological bombshell. Streetwise, smart, aggressive, vigorous, he challen ... eryone in the ward, shaking hands and filling the silence with loud laughter. The attraction of the psychiatric hospital for him was the idea of enjoying better meals and an easier lifestyle. This is ...

(5 pages) 12 0 5.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers