Movie Assignment - Argument Paper - 10 points

 

Based on what you have read in the textbook (ch. 12) and on your own critical thinking give me your own definition of what it means to be mentally ill (I do NOT want you to just give me the definition provided in the textbook).

 

Then make an argument to me that Randall P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson’s character) from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is or is not mentally ill.

 

Then, if you think he is ill, what mental illness from the textbook would you diagnose him as having? WHY?

 

Or, if you think he is not ill, what mental illness from the textbook do you think the hospital would diagnose him with?

WHY?

 

Be sure it is clear that you have brought

in material from the textbook!