Ratched

CONTENT NOTE: Discussions of suicidality, medical torture, especially medical torture specifically targeted at LGBTQ people, homicide, gore, and psychiatric hospitalization. Also swearing and, of course, spoilers.

Now that we're veteran podcasters, we decided to take on one of pop culture's most heinous villains: Nurse Ratched.

The Netflix series Ratched follows the duplicitous, chaotic Nurse Ratched's...uhhh...descent?...into the cold, manipulative tyrant of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. So we get to talk about the early-ish wacky days of psychology before ethical standards were introduced!

Sources:

The Prefrontal Cortex and Neurosurgical Treatment for Intractable OCD

Psychosurgery: A History from Prefrontal Lobotomy to Deep Brain Stimulation

The Healing Waters: The Long History of Using Water to Cure Madness

Part 1: The Bastard Who Invented the Lobotomy

Part 2: The Bastard Who Invented the Lobotomy

Please note, the contents of this podcast are for entertainment purposes only. Nothing said in this podcast is intended to be taken as personal or medical advice.