Memory Politics: Psychiatric Critique, Cultural Protest, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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Abstract
Since its 1975 release, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (dir. Milos Forman) has maintained an intertextual relationship with the psychiatric discipline, serving as an icon of anti-authoritarianism and a barometer of the state of the field. The film's popularity in the 1970s drew on a context of youth protest on one hand and anti-psychiatry mobilization on the other, both of which it also spurred. Yet how might One Flew read in a different historical moment? Here, in dialogue with my students' reactions and analysis, I argue that the aftermath of dehospitalization and contemporary gender and racial politics have rendered One Flew a more ambivalent cultural artifact. Changing responses to the film in turn reflect the ways in which we draw on the discipline's past in confronting our psychiatric present.
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Authors Lambe, Jennifer;
Journal literature and medicine
Year 2019
DOI 10.1353/lm.2019.0014
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Keywords
toxicity environment embodiment reproduction intersectionality developmental origins of health and disease

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