One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Psychology

In the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest based on the novel by Ken Kesey, Randle McMurphy is sent to a mental institution for acting mentally ill in a work camp. At first, McMurphy believes that it would be easy to live in a mental institution, but he soon sees that this is not true. McMurphy was astonished when he found out that many of the patients volunteered to be there even though they were treated like animals. With this treatment, it is fair to say that the patients were not becoming better. Because of this, McMurphy’s goal of avoiding work camp became a goal of helping the patients escape the institution. Throughout the movie, McMurphy shows his selfless ways by putting the lives of the different patients before himself. On McMurphy’s