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We’re kicking off a new book discussion series this semester! With our new Classic Favorites series, we will discuss past best-sellers. Book lovers might well have read these “way back when”; whether or not you have, with our mature life experiences discussing these “big impact” works now and thinking about those impacts then and now make these choices even more interesting for book discussions.
Ken Kesey’s best-selling 1962 novel, set in a psychiatric hospital inpatient ward, spoke to contemporaneous approaches to mental health care including therapies like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and policies like institutionalization; medical authority and decision-making; and patients’ rights in terms of general civil rights. On some of these approaches the pendulum has swung in more than one direction since 1962. The novel was adapted into a 1963 Broadway play, and then a 1965 movie that won five Academy awards, six BAFTA awards, and six Golden Globe awards. Please read the book so you can participate in our structured, facilitated, Zoom discussion. (Note: Please join the meeting at 3 pm if you would like some assistance using the features of Zoom. Otherwise, join us at 3:15 pm for the start of our discussion.)
