All 21 Uses of

therapeutic
in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sometimes one man says something about himself that he didn't aim to let slip, and one of his buddies at the table where he said it yawns and gets up and sidles over to the big log book by the Nurses' Station and writes down the piece of information he heard-of therapeutic interest to the whole ward, is what the Big Nurse says the book is for, but I know she's just waiting to get enough evidence to have some guy reconditioned at the Main Building, overhauled in the head to straighten out the trouble.†
Chpt 3

I suppose What I should do is explain the complete theory of our Therapeutic Community, while we're at it.†
Chpt 5

I've heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards-how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he'll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he's out of place; how society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.†
Chpt 5

He tells how the goal of the Therapeutic Community is a democratic ward, run completely by the patients and their votes, working toward making worth-while citizens to turn back Outside onto the street.†
Chpt 5

That any question or discussion raised by Miss Ratched or the rest of the staff is done solely for therapeutic reasons?†
Chpt 5

You must not have heard a word of Doctor Spivey's theory of the Therapeutic Community, or not have had the education to comprehend it if you did.†
Chpt 5

As long as you don't lose your temper and give her actual reason to request the restriction of the Disturbed Ward, or the therapeutic benefits of Electro Shock, you are safe.†
Chpt 5 *

"That's right, Charley," the doctor says, appreciating Cheswick's support, "and not altogether without therapeutic value."†
Chpt 9

"I agree that it may have a number of therapeutic possibilities," she says, and waits.†
Chpt 9

It's not the most ideal surroundings for our Therapeutic Community, but Administration says there's no helping it with the Geriatric Building overloaded the way it is.†
Chpt 9

I heard the compressor start pumping in the grill a few minutes back, just as the guys went to moving tables out of the day room for the therapeutic meeting, and already the mist is oozing across the floor so thick my pants legs are wet.†
Chpt 15

She phoned me before the Therapeutic Community meeting and said that in her opinion McMurphy was due to constitute a disturbance on the ward.†
Chpt 16

The doctor and I believe that every minute spent in the company of others, with some exceptions, is therapeutic, while every minute spent brooding alone only increases your separation.†
Chpt 18

Please understand: We do not impose certain rules and restrictions on you without a great deal of thought about their therapeutic value.†
Chpt 23

A number of the players, Miss Ratched, have shown marked progress since that basketball team was organized; I think it has proven its therapeutic value.†
Chpt 24

He would ask her nice as you please if he could use her fountain pen to write a request for an Unaccompanied Leave from the hospital, wrote it out in front of her on her desk, and handed her the request and the pen back at the same time with such a nice, "Thank you," and she would look at it and say just as polite that she would "take it up with the staff"—which took maybe three minutes-and come back to tell him she certainly was sorry but a pass was not considered therapeutic at this time.†
Chpt 24

They began asking one another why he'd been such a busy bee lately, hustling things for the patients like getting the rule lifted that the men had to be together in therapeutic groups of eight whenever they went somewhere ("Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again," he said in a meeting when he was arguing against the group-of-eight rule.†
Chpt 26

So is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?†
Chpt 26

Definition:

tending to cure or restore to health