One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest shows the mistreatment in mental institutions. This brought about changes in the 1960's  to reform society. Many of these changes included racial equality, women's rights, and support for the mentally handicapped. Now people who are emitted into an institution receive the help they need to get better. They are no longer tortured with the threat of electroshock therapy and lobotomies. Nurses and orderlies are there to help and not to punish the patients. Socially people today feel an obligation to take care of the mentally ill and have learned that it isn't the persons fault they are mentally ill.