One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

In this play, what is a type of treatment for mental patients at the ward?

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The treatment is oppressive and manipulative. Nurse Ratched uses psychotherapy except in a way that asserts her control and makes these men submissive to her abuse. Electro-shock therapy and pharmaceuticals were standard procedure.