It is one of the more disturbing – and memorable – depictions of psychiatric treatment in modern cinema.
Director Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 Oscar-winner, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, stars Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a criminal who fakes mental illness in order to avoid hard labour – and ends up being subjected to inhumane treatment at the hands of a vengeful nurse.
In some of the most uncomfortable-to-watch scenes, he is subjected to sessions of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) as