Ken Kesey. Over the cuckoo's nest (№ 221023)

The theory of therapeutic community I have heard so many times that I could recite from front to back and back to front - and that man must learn to live in the group before you will be able to function in a normal society, and that the group is able to help him, showing where his disorder, and who is normal and who is not, society itself decides, you could be all right to match. And all that crap. One has only to see the new patient, the doctor immediately to his theory, and went; only he, it seems, is the chief, he leads the congregation. Says that the purpose of the therapeutic community is a democratic ward, fully managed by the patients, their votes, and it seeks to release us back into the street, to the outside world, worthy citizens. Any little gripe, any grievance, anything you would like to change, it is necessary to Express before the group and discussed instead of letting it fester inside yourself. And you should feel at ease in your surroundings to such an extent that without reserve to discuss emotional issues with patients and medical staff. Talk, he says, discuss, confess. And if a friend said something in everyday conversation, write in the logbook to know the doctors and nurses. This is not a knock, as they say in the jargon, it's helping your fellow. Remove the old sins in the light of day, to bathe in the eyes of the people. And participate in group discussion. Help yourself and your friends probe into the secrets of the subconscious. From friends should not be secrets.
It commonly ends in that their task is to make a branch similar to those free and democratic places where you have lived: let the inner peace will become a large-scale model of the great outside, where one day you will return.