A Beautiful Mind, A Film Based On A True Story Of A Famous

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A beautiful mind, a film based on a true story of a famous mathematician by the name of John Nash. John goes on to win the Noble-Prize for some of his published mathematical work which he conducted at Princeton University. Unfortunately, John suffered from a psychological disorder which interfered with his personal life, work, and generally every aspect of his life. The psychological disorder which John suffers from is schizophrenia. Although the etiology of schizophrenia is still unknown, it has become a much more treatable and manageable disorder, but still no cure. Throughout the film, John Nash displays some of the classical schizophrenic symptoms. This essay will elaborate more on these symptoms. Furthermore, what could have been…show more content…
This NSA agent, who is a hallucination, tells John that he is the best code breaker the agency has ever seen, and that country’s safety is in his hands. Without doubt, John is displaying one of schizophrenia’s most common symptom.
Second, John also displays positive symptoms. According to the abnormal psychology textbook, positive symptoms consist of unusual thoughts, feelings and behaviors. For example, one positive symptom is the presence of delusions, which are fixed beliefs that are not changeable when presented with conflicting evidence (Tirupati et al, 2006, Pg.359). To further illustrate, John’s colleagues and wife start to realize why he has been coming home so late. His wife discovers John’s office filled with newspaper clippings that have gibberish written all over them. Also, John’s wife discovers that he has been delivering the newspaper clippings to an abandoned house.
To clarify, John firmly believes that the newspaper clippings are codes that he has solved and believes that he has dropped them off at the agent’s house. Furthermore, John’s wife tries to make him realize that all his so called “work”, or the newspaper clippings were never read and that he had dropped them off at an abandoned house. This is where the positive symptoms come in. John’s wife has now presented John with conflicting evidence and that everything he is doing is a delusion, but john does not want to believe it, even though they
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