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Psychology Resource Center for Students

Girl, Interrupted revisits the themes of Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Whether the patients are men (Cuckoo's Nest) or women (Girl, Interrupted), the setting public (Cuckoo's Nest) or private (Girl, Interrupted), some things never change. The health care professionals have neither competence nor compassion and are at war with their "crazy" inmates. Girl, Interrupted, like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, contains some unfair stereotypes of patients and professionals and often strays beyond the bounds of credibility.