Unnoticed Antisocial Personality Disorder

The treatment available for any type of mental illness in the 1960’s didn’t have much diversity to it only ranging from a couple of medications like “chloryl hydrate, bromides, and barbiturates” to sedate the patients and lobotomies that were used during this time but they had a high death rate of “twenty five percent” and leftmost showing “a total absence of feeling” (Foerschner). The first antidepressant was introduced in the 1980’s by the name of “Prozac” before this there was no medication that could properly treat depression (Foerschner). With the very limited treatments for mental illness, it was very hard to cure and help mental illness in the 1960’s. In modern day there are many different approaches …show more content…
In the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey, Randle McMurphy’s sanity is up for debate but it is clear that he has an antisocial personality disorder that attributes to his strange and curious actions he takes throughout the entire book …show more content…
Randle McMurphy’s life story is key to having the ability to diagnose him with an antisocial personality disorder because many who are diagnosed with this condition have a tragic life that leads up to why they act in a selfish and disruptive manner. Randle had one event in his early life that had an impact on him because it wasn't supposed to occur at such a young age. He states that the “first girl ever [dragged] [him] to bed” when he was just nine years old (Kesey). Him having sex for the first time at nine years old is quite a big deal because most