One Flew Over the Cucko's Nest

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…lives, which led them to their psychological castration. This is obvious patient Billy Bibbit a thirty one year old man whose mental problems were due to his over domineering mother , who was friends with Nurse Ratched. The downfall of Billy was toward the climax of the novel when "The Big Nurse" brought to the surface Billy's inability to stand up to his mother and her years of psychological castration, and soon after, led his suicide.