One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest

Foremost among his Palo Alto recruits was Ken Kesey. In 1959, Bateson administered the first dose of LSD to Kesey. By 1962, Kesey had completed a novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, which popularized the notion that society is a prison and the only truly "free" people are the insane. (15)... 

One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest by Ken Kesey Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck... 

Finally, psychiatric drugs are seen by some as an assault on free will and autonomy. Certainly this idea has been brought to our attention by media reports of instances in which psychotropic drugs have been used solely to achieve behavioral control. "Chemical straitjackets" and other forms of biological restraint, such as lo-botomies, have been the subject of popular film and television productions (for example One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, Frances, and Will There Really Be a Morning ). And clearly these abuses have and do occur. However, appropriately used medical interventions oftentimes work to free people and promote autonomy. 

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