Nurse Ratched Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Nurse Ratched? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest 1975 and what is the personality traits.
ISTJ (1w9)
Nurse Ratched personality type is ISTJ, whose dominant function is Introverted Sensing.
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My own personality type is INFJ, based on the work of Isabel Myers. I’ve found it interesting to compare Myers’ descriptions of her own functions with Jung’s descriptions of his functions, which are very similar. I describe the Myers-Briggs system as a useful starting point but not an ultimate goal, because it doesn’t account for the differences between Jung’s four Jungian functions.
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Nurse Ratched is a fictional character and the main antagonist of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, first featured in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel as well as the 1975 film adaptation. A cold, heartless tyrant, Nurse Ratched has become the stereotype of the nurse as a battleaxe. She has also become a popular metaphor for the corrupting influence of institutional power and authority in bureaucracies such as the psychiatric treatment center in which the novel is set. Nurse Ratched is the head administrative nurse at the Salem State Hospital, a mental institution where she exercises near-absolute power over the patients' access to medications, privileges, and basic necessities such as food and toiletries. She capriciously revokes these privileges whenever a patient displeases her.
