one flew over the cuckoos nest

[ali benarbia's studs]

hah i hadnt heard that but that sounds like an even better plot for a film. cia sends man into asylum to carry out covert operations, then his handler and/or the only people who know his role is mysteriously killed/disapears then this sane man spends the rest of the film trying to convince psychiatrists he really is in the cia. of course the final irony being that the ordeal sends him mad for real and he spends the rest of his life in there.

eddie don t you know hollywood are crying out for writers!!!! they are running out of remakes of late....... get typing ffs you could be on a winner there!

 

[Challenger1978]

did you know that film is based on a true story?
The guy who wrote it worked for the CIA in the 60's and went under-cover in mental hospitals to give patients mind-bending drugs and report back to the CIA with the results

electro-shock therapy was used all the time back then. and like you say, clinical trials with lsd.

Believe it or not its still widely used today in the UK and US.

 

[LongsightM13]

My favourite film of all time. Not only is Nicholson at his mesmerising peak, but the performances of the supporting cast are absolutely superb. Not many films have you roaring with laughter one minute and then finding that you have, ahem, something in your eye the next.
For fans of lunatic asylum films, check out the forthcoming Scorcese flick Shutter Island, based on Denis Lehane's brilliant period novel about two cops sent to investigate the disappearance of a patient at a mental facility situated in an Alcatraz-style environment

 

[simonr555]

electro-shock therapy was used all the time back then. and like you say, clinical trials with lsd.

Believe it or not its still widely used today in the UK and US.

It certainly is. I work at a hospital and the mental wards are right next to our department and they use it there. I think it is called electro-convulsive therapy now isn't it? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Timperley_blue]

"Juicy Fruit"

"What?!"

"Juicy Fruit"

 

[Challenger1978]

Believe it or not its still widely used today in the UK and US.

It certainly is. I work at a hospital and the mental wards are right next to our department and they use it there. I think it is called electro-convulsive therapy now isn't it? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

No you're right, the scary thing is though (according to an offical goverment paper) they know it works for curing sever depression but they don't know why it works. They also deny that it causes any side effects at all. Which is pretty mental considering people have gone in being able to walk and then after receiving ECT they ended up paralised .