[Movie] One flew over the cuckoos nest

Quick question for you guys.

I was watching One flew over the cuckoos nest last night (excellent movie if you haven't seen it) and was wondering if the way jack acted around the crazy men would actually do them good. It was, I think, the main point of the movie to show how terrible those hospitals are for the crazy, being treated poorly, and thus worsening or even letting their condition go unimproved.

Jack comes in and starts playing with them, treating them like people, and makes them use their mind in ways more than a forced and downright boring group therapy.

He got Cheif talking, all of them playing basketball, watching the world series, and even got one of the worst patients LAID!!!

This is where my question comes in. The one who was laid, faced his fears of women *which I think was the spark of his psychosis*, and afterwards wasn't stuttering or shaking, and actually speaking and forming fluid sentences. It was as if he faced his fears, got over them a bit, and basically overcame his thought disorder, a common sign of psychosis or schizophrenia. Unfortunately he shortly after committed suicide, but only after the nurse made him feel guilty about what he did, what a dumbass!!


I don't know jack about psychiatric hospitals, but are they really like that? Would Nicholson's approach really help the crazy? Or would it just put them in a dangerous situation like it did billy *suicide victim* and make them more emotionally unstable.

I mean, the workers treat them like objects *although, it would take a very strong willed person to work there full time and not get frustrated*

Either way, is living the way billy was even worth it? If Billy got a chance at becoming better, or even functional again with the risk of an emotional crisis leading to suicide, is it not worth the risk involved? than living life a paranoid, delusional, vegetable?

Jam it back in, in the dark.