The Significance of Opposites in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest: Kesey's View of the Ideal Cure for Psychiatric Diseases

In my book I would like to give an insight in the methods used in the past, and perhaps sometimes nowadays too, to abuse the patients at the psychiatric wards and the alternative possibilities to cure such people, providing them the right for self-determination, humane conditions and facilities. Ken Kesey tried to approach the topic from the point of view of the abused patient as he had the necessary experience for this. His book is full of opposites which can be the basis of a research of wider interest for all the people who have or might have contact with any psychiatric diseases and cures either on the patients' side or on the relatives'side, who have such cases in their families.