How Oregon State Hospital Became the Set of Cuckoo's Nest? A Journey through Mental Health History.

Oregon’s still functioning psychiatric state hospital, designated by Kirkbride planning with natural lighting and air circulation in mind when healing the mentally ill, was also once active in the fields of electroconvulsive therapy, lobotomies, eugenics, and hydrotherapy. Throughout its history claims of mistreatment, overcrowding, delapitated facilities and the holding of up to 5,000 canisters of unclaimed human ashes created public awarness/outcry and approval to update the hospital and the c