One flew over the cuckoo's nest

[Mattw9105]

I AIN'T NO LITTLE KID!!!

[lovelittlecats]

@keith4291 We don't do lobotomies nowadays, and haven't done for decades. Please check your facts.

[eswanmccheese]

55 people dislike...Nurse Ratched's sockpuppets.

[lmOnlySleeping]

@TillaStillaBilla

not anymore, not legally anyways.

[quinter891]

This is not reality. I go through ECT. I have depression and medicine dont work. I remember this:

Doctor give me injection and than i just wake up. Nothing hurt me, i dont remember anything, just fall sleep and then i wake up. ECT really help me, now i want to live, work, i found friends and world is much much better place to live. I live thanks to ECT

Really sorry for bad english. I live in Czech Republic

[predator0010]

@quinter891 Yes,this was real.ECT is same as this + anesthetic that knocks you out so you don't feel it.They were doing this procedure without anesthetic in the past.

[Miranda9VM]

i hate this fucking world. this is a sadistic and inhumane method for treating these conditions, and the people who perform this deserve this torture as their punishment. what an incredible movie!

[sylki7]

You can just feel the pain!!

[lovelittlecats]

This bears NO relation to ECT whatsoever.

Possibly the most unrealistic piece of film ever made.

No wonder people are biased against it.

Absolutely ridiculous.

[Jacobobi1]

@lovelittlecats The novel was written in 1962. This is how EST (Electro-Shock Therapy) was conducted. We live in a new century, where technology is advanced as is medicine. This is accurate.

[tempo1889]

Looks like this was more of a punishment for Mcmurphy then therapy for him.

[gunterra1]

@tempo1889 Indeed. That's exactly what it was (and still is) meant to be. Therapy is just a fancier word for it. That's what it is. The outcome is what counts, the name or label it is given does not change that. It's just a PR thing. There are no cures in clinical Psychiatry, never have been, never will be. It is just a frauddulent practice under the disguise of medicine and long overdue to be replaced by something really beneficial and humane.

[GabBling]

@gunterra1 Why don't you do some research and take your head out of your ass?

[hotelmario510]

It's hard to believe this isn't real.

[DougPatton1]

50 yrs ago his was inside Anglo State institutions, now Anglo-Fascist States ARE the institutions.

[ebuz218]

JACK IS LEGEND!

[deltamima]

If he really acted this scene he really desevre that Oscar :)) I like him =*

[quogirl1]

@deltamima I agree, he is such a wonderful Actor, it has got me beat where he draws his emotions from to do certain scenes.

[leafyutube]

Interesting look at happenings inside the funny farm.

[TheGNRfan94]

Reminds me about "The A-Team" XD

[UserNameTHC]

Pretty much the best movie ever.

[Abdulmalik773]

i like Jack Nicholson

[mangodebango]

Wouldn't the nurse holding his head also receive some of the shock?

[1nirvanaseeker]

lobotomy is so horrible...........

[richeerich96]

MK ULTRA much?

[ebuz218]

@richeerich96 LOL!

[cupcakecouture00]

Ect treatment old style ahaa

[CorvusDreams]

The fact of the matter is that many people who suffer from a mental illness (chronic depression just to name a common one) wouldn't hesitate to go through this if they thought it would cure them.

[CorvusDreams]

The fact of the matter is that many people who suffer from a mental illness (chronic depression just to name a common one) wouldn't hesitate to go through this if they thought it would cure them.

[EdwardCullenBabe95]

I can't get over how hot Jack Nicholson is.

[AlyssiaStrasbourg]

@EdwardCullenBabe95 I KNOW, I actually looked up what he looked like when he was younger, and I was like wow. He was a stud!

[EdwardCullenBabe95]

@AlyssiaStrasbourg Oh for sure. He's so gorgeous. :x

[SickyJinx13]

Great fucking scene from a great fucking actor.

[sraphael]

Grrr! No one hurts my Jack!

[TheFinlandnator]

@isometric85 No its not. It helps people and often it is voluntary - a choice made by the patient.

Its more horrible to have a mental illness than get therapy.

[TheFinlandnator]

ZAP!

[ilovelucyfan12]

When I saw this...I couldn't stop crying, it's so sad what they do to him

[hillallen36]

The medical profession is a mess, According to news reports, prescription drug addiction now is a greater problem than use of illegal drugs (See MSNBC). The U.S. is hooked on prescription drugs. Who writes the prescriptions? Medical doctors and psychiatrists. Who profits? Medical doctors,psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical companies, which today have record sales and profits. A multibillion dollar scam is underway. Electroshock is still given to some involuntarily. Physician heal thyself!

[makemeateeshirt]

Was it a flake, cuz only the crubliest, flakiest moments.....

[ronaldvanderkleij]

Sorry but for manic depressed is it for some a good medicine.

[SardaukarPrime]

I'm not 100% sure,but I believe it's illegal now to perform this kind of procedure. Not to mention that there has never been proven any real benefits other than mess up your brain chemistry.

[MrAlexito19]

@SardaukarPrime you know what is the worst part? that it is not illegal yet. Today is still used but is not for every patient, just if you qualify for it. And you are right, there has never been proven any benefits but some psychiatrist say that it does. They say its something you cannot see but it actually works. I dont know what to think. But it is just cruel.

[VonWeeldn]

@MrAlexito19 The way it is shown in the movie, is not the reality at all (anymore). For sure, in the 60's this method was used for every psych patient, but that's not imaginable anymore. Psych patients have to qualify (mostly when medicins haven;t got the result as it should be) and it's for depressive, manic or schizo patients. They use different drugs for the curement. Patients do not shake anymore like that. It's not that bad anymore, and very simple, effective and a quick working method.

[Hirally]

@SardaukarPrime Actually, ECT has relieved some people of depression, severe depression. It seems only to work on severe depression, and of course, is used as a last resort if no other methods of therapy or medications are working. It has even completed cured depression in some of those individuals (although we still don't know why!).

[keenan087]

Is that seriously just acting? Cause he looks like he's in a lot of pain. I've always had trouble watching this part (and the last part) of the movie. It's just so sad.

[FinalApostate]

@keenan087 that's cause Jack Nicholson is an amazing actor :)

[77magenta]

@keenan087 thats why they call it acting you twat.

[logik316]

@ectdf1975

Maybe for some people. My dad seemed a lot more lucid after they tried ECT on him, though. I guess it literally zaps away any fantasy world the patient's living in.

[TheRedrivervally]

This is a very sad scene as this is really what they used to do to patients.

[wwwtotalitaerde]

@TheRedrivervally Checkout my film Gifte English. Thats about the German BND, the ex GESTAPO using poisons to destroy the brains of ww2 resistance fighters.

And this still is being done today.

[blahmehblah1]

@TheRedrivervally I'm pretty sure electric shock therapy is still happening

the shocking thing about this wasn't that he was getting the treatment, it was that he was getting it and didn't need it, as he wasn't really insane, that was what was sad

[blahmehblah1]

@TheRedrivervally It's a good treatment for severe depression that drugs will not treat

I believe they use anesthesia nowadays so they don't twitch

[clintonearlwalker]

I've seen ECT machines for sale on e-bay for 100 bucks. Most of the asylums that used these things have been closed in the US. I visited Weston State Hospital last summer, it was closed in about 1995. They have an old ect machine there, as well as ice picks used for lobotomies. There are vids of the place on YouTube, check them out.

[TheZina007]

A film everybody should watch! Jack Nicholson gives such an amazing performance here that after I watched it he became my favorite actor!

[brightlights456X]

Watched King's Speech & Black Swan. Later I saw this flim on tv the a week or so ago at midnight. Blow BOTH films out of the water completely.

Recieved the big 5 at the Oscars. Now I know why. In my top 10 films of all time.

[brightlights456X]

I remember learning about this in ECT in class.

Very sad what happens at the end.

[AlicelnWonderIand]

Legal torture?

[LandfillShite]

Great film. It highlights the not natural methods used to detaine those who society didn't have the resources to host.

[ojideagu]

@wevelostDon It extended our lives by about 50 years.

[slty2j]

What the fuck is happening to him!????

[ojideagu]

@slty2j Electroshock therapy.

[doh1959]

id like to fuk dat bitch of a nurse in de arse and say are you feeling better

[Aliendear]

@tamerswan better idea? better idea to what?

[MHAKP]

This is some like a CIA do.

[picassoartist]

Confound you, summer reading!!

Confound you!!

[dontfuckupalright]

WHAT THE HELL did they do to him?

[proudjester]

@keith4291 Sorry if I conveyed that lobotomy was a good thing, but ...lobotomy isn't portrayed here, it's electroconvulsive therapy.

[catski666]

@proudjester Wasnt the ECT used to render the patient unconscious so that the trans-orbital lobotomy can be carried out once the convulsions had stopped?

[proudjester]

@catski666 That was a recommendation by a lobotomist to doctors who didn't carry anesthesia. It wasn't a prevalent practice, but since ECT can render people unconscious, it could have been used that way. ECT was not and is not necessarily paired with lobotomy. They didn't lobotomize Murphy after this scene, for example.

[2010Barbon]

"This won't hurt!" LOL!!!

[TylerMontana]

better fit in!!! ya hear??? :)

[JMAsfx]

This is absolute bollocks, even back then they gave you a general anesthetic.

I hate films that tell lies

[freqeist]

@JMAsfx not for ECT they dont.

[lovelittlecats]

@freqeist Yes. We do.

[khargooshkhargoosh]

fuck you all the animal psychologists

[proudjester]

It is this scene which has stigmatized this treatment. It's actually a lot different today than how it is portrayed here. Have someone who is not responding to biological interventions for depression? Have someone who is so depressed they attempt suicide every chance they get? This is the treatment which is most effective. Why is it the last barrier when dealing with depression? This scene right here. It's not because it's not effective -- it's because it's stigmatized.

[QuicksilverHammer]

@proudjester HAVE YOU EVER HAD THIS HAPPEN TO YOU?

[proudjester]

@QuicksilverHammer My aunt -- for depression. She was inconsolable. She was able to manage her symptoms after ECT.

[QuicksilverHammer]

@proudjester well i'll bet it hurt like shit and it still would. it may help but it's not the only way.

[proudjester]

@QuicksilverHammer Nah, you're unconscious when you seize. Don't really feel anything.

[QuicksilverHammer]

@proudjester well i've never been through it so i wouldn't know i've read things so that's all i have to go on. but i'll trust you on this but hey what the hell can you do you know not like somebodies gonna read your post and go "hey we should allow that again." you know what i'm saying?

[CitySkin09]

Did they really give Jack Nicholson electroshock therapy? 'Cause that shit looks real as hell.

[freqeist]

@CitySkin09 thats why he got an Oscar and no, he didnt.

[mollynoir]

makes me cry every time.

[Striget]

I have been given electroshock therapy and I can tell you that it sucks. Doesn't do anything but erases your memory and hurts like hell...

[DementedElvis]

Still don't understand how people can hold him without any protection while giving him a huge electroshock.

[emmyls1]

Thank god ECT is nothing like this anymore. I recently had 10 treatments. They give you a general anasthetic and oxygen to breathe. Once you are asleep they place conductive gel over multiple points on the forehead and apply sticky tabs which the electricity will pass through. One quick shock is all it takes. Nowadays a muscle relaxant is used, so no extreme fitting is seen, apart from a slight twitch through the body. You wake up with a head ache, and its really affected my memory.

[raggakakka]

@emmyls1

so why don't YOU take it, boy????

[freqeist]

@emmyls1 we dont give GA`s in this country (UK) for this, you are mistaken.(I have been a MH nurse since 95)

I have never give anyone a general aesthetic for ECT for one its too risky and we are not doctors.

[emmyls1]

@freqeist I am from the UK, and when i had my ECTs i had a general anasthetic, given by an anesthatist. I don't know where the hell in the UK you are working, but i'm glad i'm not there.

[freqeist]

@emmyls1 you had short-acting anesthetic such as Methohexital, Amidate, or Sodium Pentothal, please dont be judgemental and so rude when you clearly have no idea what you are talking about (just because you are or were a patient doesn't mean you do). I work in Brighton if you must know.

[isometric85]

@emmyls1 ect is inhuman and should be banned

[emmyls1]

@isometric85 I disagree. Its a proven procedure. After going through it, i can say that i was treated throuroughly humanely. Being in the UK, there are strict laws to adhere to, but i know in other countries, such as India, its recently been banned because the procedure was taking place with out muscle relaxants or anasthestic. But of course, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. If i could go back in time and change my mind, then i would, purely because of the memory loss.

[isometric85]

@emmyls1 why dont u get some electroshock urself then..and se ehow it feels..

[emmyls1]

@isometric85 I've had ECT. I didn't feel anything because i was under anasthetic.

[isometric85]

@emmyls1 that doesnt speak for millions out there who didnt benefit..

[tecnats]

@emmyls1 What do you suffer from? I mean since you've been giving such a serious treatment like this.

[emmyls1]

@tecnats They've given me multiple diagnoses over the years, depression, bipolar, and borderline personality disorder. And i am being treated for all of them in some way, and i guess they all over lap. They gave me the ECT because my mood had dropped significantly and i was put into a psychiatric hospital. I've had mental health problems for 10 years, since the age of 13, and i guess the doctors didn't know what else to do. But i'm feeling muuuuuch better now though :)

[Icedout24xx]

@emmyls1 What kind of sick, bastard are you. Who the fuck subjects to themselves to this shit. What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you retarded. Oh wait you must be, that's a given.

[emmyls1]

@Icedout24xx lololololol trolling! haha gets me everytime! do it some more, i love it!!

[Icedout24xx]

@emmyls1 LOL GEE GOLLY!!!! I THOUGHT YOU'D NEVER ASK!!!! SO why put yourself through disgusting self mutilating turmoil? Are you an idiot? I did some research, is this a last resort? Is it? God. Pitiful that there's actually people out there that cant live a normal life. Just think to yourself, there's actually people out there that have real health problems out there. Just get a lobotomy and get it over with.

[elyurita]

@Icedout24xx this is just your point of view icedout24.

[sanoalecs]

@emmyls1 why?

you are crazy or something?

[Caleigho]

@emmyls1

Thank you for sharing that perspective. I wish you luck in your continued recovery.

[citylights07]

@emmyls1 you are completely right. I saw 2 of these live today in my mental health nursing rotation and it's a little more, can I say, humane. the Propofol knocks out the patient in seconds and then they are given the muscle relaxant. it's all a very quick process and the patient doesn't even remember what happened.

[ChetzNation]

@emmyls1 ...What would that help for?

[emmyls1]

@ChetzNation For me personally i was suffering from a bad attack of depression.

[ChetzNation]

@emmyls1 And electric shocks would help for that why?

[dahman511]

@ChetzNation he tryed to kill batman in 1989 duh.

[ChetzNation]

@dahman511 Perhaps you meant, *tried? :-)

(Senior citizen smiley FTW)

[JessicatWolves]

awesome acting :) but i think the fact that this is actually still legal is sick.

[GERALDO2615]

queria fazer um tratamemto

[wisekingy]

a little dab'll do ya! LOL

[parkerboggs89]

I've had ect. nothing like this

[rysterf8]

The description is wrong. They performed a lobotomy.

[Grizelda1227]

@rysterf8 no. this is electroshock therapy. A lobotomy is when they either remove or obscure the frontal lobe in the patient's brain in order to rid them of emotions entirely, thus controlling the patient.

[tomhansonlover]

@Grizelda1227 or turning them into vegetables.

[CrescentHeart3]

@rysterf8 this scene isn't the lobotomy, they do both in mental hospitals. lobotomy tends to be a last resort, which is the final scene

[justkevin09]

@CrescentHeart3 i dont think its legal to do lobotmys anymore but i know people who have had electroshock therapy

[CrescentHeart3]

@justkevin09 yeah lobotomy is illegal and electro isn't common but it is still practiced

[TheMillazilla]

it looks like it hurts..... :I

[dimes23100]

Jack only does good films

[oxDannyBxo]

Isn't shock therapy illegal? if not then it should be. That is not therapy, it's torture!

[Sn1p3rN1njah]

@oxDannyBxo its not illegal its only used now to cure people suffering from chronic depression

[oxDannyBxo]

So they were helping him? So shock therapy is feels good afterward?

[Sn1p3rN1njah]

@oxDannyBxo with the whole story in the book and movie no they werent helping him. but yes it relaxes the mind and body

[sergeantsoap101mw2]

It's not like that anymore today they pityou to sleep so you don't do what jack Nicholson did there

[gepkedeleef]

GGZ Nederland krijgt hier overheids subsidie voor.

Duizenden slachtoffers per jaar.

Zou anno 2011 veilig zijn. Gebbruiken ze nu soms groene stroom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zia diagnose wijengepke.hyves.nl Cecil Gijsbers van Wijk,Peter Hanneman en Paulan

Starcke alle GGZ psyche-haters.

[tempo1889]

You know it wont be pleasent when you have to wear a mouth guard for a procedure.

[doradoortje]

@nameless212

That's what they want you to think.

[Theoreticalcoercion]

@nameless212 actually ECT is gaining credibility and is being used more today.

[Sn1p3rN1njah]

@Theoreticalcoercion no its not its almost never used we are reading this book in school and we had to do research about ECT and Lobotomys

[Theoreticalcoercion]

@Sn1p3rN1njah how old is the book? cause anything recent would tell you something different, also lobotomy is alot different its so much less humane and also was not used after they learned that the long term affects of Lobotomies showed no improvements. Also ECT and electricity has been used since ancient romans i believe, either rome or egypt they would take eels and shock brains to help cure depression

[Sn1p3rN1njah]

@Theoreticalcoercion idk how old the book is but if you havent read it you should its really good. lobotomys arent used but there are two ways with cutting and drilling into the skull and then taking the brain out and the second way is underneath the eye lids they take a hammer and basically a flat tipped screw driver and tap it into the frontal lobe and then pull it out and wipe off the brain and ECT now it is used only to cure like you said depression but only for people with bad depression

[Theoreticalcoercion]

@Sn1p3rN1njah the first thing you were talking about is a normal lobotomy the second thing is a trans-orbital icepick lobotomy that went throughout the country performed for over 5000 patients by one man and was made illegal when the long term affects were published

[Sn1p3rN1njah]

@Theoreticalcoercion but they both do the same thing the icepick one is they found was more effective and easier so they started to use that

[Plunkx]

i wonder if a real electro therapy would be like this ?

[MischiefCON]

this was the very 1st movie I ever saw, when we got our 1st VHS recorder back in the 80s. its still one of my most vivid memories & still one of my fav movies now that Im 36yrs old.

[Wacoswim]

God when I first saw this i definitely had to look away to keep from puking!

[saqibk1]

Nice scene, Forman got talent also with Amadeus, nicely acted by Jack.

[XxMissNoNamexX]

God that was amazing acting.

[xmaxim99x]

A little dab'l do yah...

[Aliendear]

jeeze, this is as close to hell as you can get.

[TheLowermen]

@Aliendear you havent seen "the human centipede" yet , did you?

[1RandomNoise]

@Aliendear

It's a convulsion, that's all. Very extreme, but just a convulsion.

[Aliendear]

@1RandomNoise you a doctor?

[SaborMetallico]

Jack's so amazing! In my opinion R.P. McMurphy ''Mac'' is the best character he ever played! :D Love you, Jack and HAPPY BiRTHDAY!!!

[bossmann25]

i know this is going to be hard to believe but if you dont believe me just look it up this entire seen from him walking into the room which he had never seen before to the electrocution was actually real not much acting involved jack nicholson wanted this seen to be as natural as possible so he told them to actually do this and those doctors and nurses are real this is why jack nicholson is a legend

[AllaSHkchew]

@bossmann25 lol

[dancemaniaplayerr]

it's horrible! oh my gosh when i read the book i cried so hard, and then the movie UGH! McMurphy will forever be my favorite character ugh hate this story 2 sad!

[alski695]

@yodudewassp There IS a treatment that is without any dangers and side effects.....a hug

[ChaseK4Eva]

Damn he's sooo friggin good at this acting stuff

[CRAZYJ10ify]

What is the movie called where Michael Keatin plays a mental patient.Its almost the same thing as this movie just different actors.

[yakanies]

@CRAZYJ10ify you could be thinking, of house on haunted hill.

[CRAZYJ10ify]

@yakanies its called the Dream Team.

[yakanies]

@CRAZYJ10ify  oh my bad ^^

[JTizzie007]

@yodudewassp If you actually studied psychology, you would know that ECT is a highly effective treatment. The technique has been improved and the effects are largely positive. destroying people? really? Any negative side effects are rare and long term side effects are almost unheard of in modern ECT! stop getting your information from Hollywood people and try getting a Phd.

[belazela]

This has been and always will be a very difficult scene to watch in this movie. My absolute admiration for this compelling actor.

[TashaG16]

I almost cried at the end... but it was too many people around. lol

[Jewmaine87]

@yodudewassp lobotomy has went nowhere its only used in the most extreme of cases. Whether the patient is in danger of overdose or allergic to thorazine, something must be done.

[krasnyploshad3]

too much legs 'n co

[ozpox]

Does the Chief ever get shock-therapy? please inbox me!

[tryandlisten]

@ozpox not according to the book or movie

[Nixon4life87]

The man the legend Jack Nicholson

[yourallbrainwashed]

@yodudewassp ding ding ding ding we have a winner folks!

when it comes to the brain , doctors and psychiatrists really have no fucking clue what theyre doing.

the human body is so complex, doctors are kidding themselves when they think they can tell how the brain works from the different colors on an mri. fucking idiots

[789123456789]

better actor than Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart

[rootbeerdrinker100]

what were they doing to him ?