A Beautiful Mind By John Nash

After his initial diagnosis, Nash is subjected to shock therapy and strong medication. The medication did help him, but he found that his mathematical and cognitive abilities were severely diminished so he stopped taking it. The movie has his wife faithfully standing by his side throughout his life offering continued support and his friends offering varying degrees of support, including a position on the faculty that is more honorary than anything. His illness did not readily pose a direct threat to anyone nor was he physically violent to those around him. The instance where he nearly downed his infant son was an exception rather than the norm and even then he believed the baby was under supervision. The end of the movie shows Nash receiving the Nobel Prize for his doctoral thesis in 1994 with an interview being conducted to ascertain his sanity. Nash claims he is sane under his current medication.

Nash was eventually sent home with medication for his illness but a short while later he quit taking it which resulted in his hallucinations coming back. To prevent him from going back to the psychiatric hospital, Alicia and he began working together to try and solve his schizophrenia without the medication. As Nash grew older, with the help of Alicia, he eventually learned that by ignoring the fictitious people he was seeing he could control his illness and live a somewhat productive life.

A Beautiful Mind, is a movie that was produced in the year 2002 by Universal Pictures. This film is about a man named John Nash who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, paranoid type. Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder with key features including delusions, hallucinations, difficulty concentrating, and other negative symptoms (Parekh, 2017). Paranoid schizophrenia specifically, is “characterized mainly by the presence of delusions of persecution or grandeur” (Sadock and Sadock, 2005). The typical age for the onset of schizophrenia is in late adolescence or early adulthood, and is seen in men and women equally (Sadock and Sadock, 2005).

In Ron Howard's work, A Beautiful Mind, depicts the real life account of Professor John Nash and his struggle with paranoid Schizophrenia. The topic of mental illness has become popularized as of late, particularly in popular media (film, television). This focus on mental disorders has greatly improved awareness of mental disorders, but this media has become a double edged sword. The same process that educates people (ie these films and shows) can also disseminate largely false or misleading information. In the film, both sides of this information distribution phenomena are expressed. To evaluate the effectiveness of the movie to accurately describe the occurrence of paranoid Schizophrenia one must look at the accuracy of the onset,

Our comprehension of human experience can be expanded through the viewing of a world outside our own. In A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard, a differing world engulfed with mental illness has been depicted through the life of mathematician John Nash and the subsequent human experience of the relationships built around it and the struggles associated. It is the responders’ observation of a differing world that leads to a greater understanding of the mental illness and the impact of relationships while allowing me to gain a greater compassion for those who suffer from mental illness.

John Nash’s character in the movie suffered from positive, negative, and disorganized symptoms of psychosis, but some played larger roles in his life and were a prominent part of the movie. Perhaps the most debilitating symptom was his hallucinations. One usually thinks hallucinations are just hearing things or occasionally seeing something that is not there, but in the case of Nash, he experienced auditory and visionary hallucinations quite frequently. The director of the film did not directly reveal his hallucinations to be real until halfway through the movie. The main character meets his “roommate” within the first few scenes, which seems somewhat strange to an audience member, but the actor goes along with it. Charles Herman, the “roommate”, begins to play a large role in his life and is almost always with John. Herman later introduces his niece to Nash, and the pair quickly form a bond. Eventually, the hallucinations are so delusional that he begins to believe a man from the US

A Beautiful Mind illustrates many of the topics relating to psychological disorders. The main character of the film, John Nash, is a brilliant mathematician who suffers from symptoms of Schizophrenia. His symptoms include paranoid delusions, grandiosity, and disturbed perceptions. The disease disrupts his social relationships, his studies, and his work. The more stressful his life becomes the more his mind is not able to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

Homework #4 A Beautiful Mind tells the story of John Nash who developed schizophrenia while he was attending college. The movie documents Nash’s life during the years he developed schizophrenia. It also provides insight to his symptoms and the treatments he used to cope with them. A Beautiful Mind shows how Nash, despite his disorder, was able to live a close to normal life and be successful.

When watching “A Beautiful Mind,” it is hard for viewers to understand who is real and who is imaginary until the truth is revealed. That is, in essence, what it would be like to live in the mind of John Nash. “A Beautiful Mind,” directed by Ron Howard and originally based on a biography by Sylvia Nasar, tells the story of John Forbes Nash Jr., a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a recognized American mathematician with schizophrenia. The main ethical dilemma, which isn’t introduced until the latter part of the movie, concerns Nash discontinuing his medication. If he discontinues his medications, his illusions will come back. The dilemma is whether it is ethically acceptable to let Nash discontinue his medication and continue to live at home or whether he should be hospitalized. The ethical dilemma presented in the movie impacts the characters in various ways, and the methods used to solve the dilemma exposes ethical principles that are being abused and, oppositely, positive principles used by the characters that are attempting to help Nash.

John Nash is an American male. He is married and has one child. He graduated at Princeton University with a Ph. D. Nash began to exhibit symptoms of schizophrenia when he started Princeton university. His first hallucination was his roommate, named Charles Herman. His hallucination of a roommate developed because Nash felt pressure in life and wanted support. The second hallucination was William Parcher, whom he stated that he works for by breaking Russian codes. It was at the same time that he developed delusions that the Russian are trying to kill him. This hallucination occurs because he felt under appreciated at work. The third Hallucination is Marcee, Charles Herman's niece. This hallucination occurs because Nash was feeling stressful in his life. Marcee offers him emotional support through his stressful

Despite being diagnosed with schizophrenia, Nash maintained healthy relationships with his friends, his family, and his students. He continued to function at a high intellectual level and used reason to cope with hallucinations. For these, reasons, Nash’s story is unusual. Nash as depicted in, A Beautiful Mind, is an atypical case of someone diagnosed with schizophrenia. While the film fails to completely avoid stereotypical portrayals of schizophrenia, the atypical nature of Nash’s diagnosis associates mental illness with triumph and success contradicting the stereotypical view of schizophrenia as dangerous and debilitating.

Nash perceived Charles and Parcher just as he perceived his classmates and his wife. Additionally, when he was told about his hallucinations, he couldn’t help but reject them. The world of acceptance and importance had a better appeal than a world where he was pitied and was struggling in all aspects of his

The movie Beautiful Mind is about Dr. John Nash who is a mathematical genius and a natural code breaker, at least in his own mind. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia which is a psychological disorder. According to Baird (2011), paranoid schizophrenia is when a person has “delusions of grandeur and persecution often accompanied by hallucinations” (p. 273). The person has a split from real life circumstances, where their new reality becomes actual fact to them.

Mr. Nash accepts this assignment, and gradually he becomes completely fixated on doing nothing except code extraction. Around this same time he is asked to dinner by one of his students, Alicia, whom he is almost immediately intrigued by. It is while on this date that his delusional content shifts. Up to this point, his delusions and hallucinations had, for the most part, played into his grandiosity, however, this night, a persecutory theme emerges, as he notices suspicious men watching him.

Maintaining accuracy while producing a biographical film is a difficult undertaking. It requires complex research and genuine understanding of the person in order to accurately represent them on screen. In 2001, film makers attempted to translate to screen the life of John Nash in A Beautiful Mind (Gazer & Howard). John Nash, who is a notable figure in the world of academia and mathematics, won the Nobel Prize in economics for his game theory (Nash, 1994). Nash is also widely known for his long-term struggle with mental illness and was diagnosed with schizophrenia during his mid-thirties (Samels & MacLowry, 2002). In order to examine the accuracy of this portrayal it is necessary to examine the aspects of schizophrenia displayed in the film such as the mannerisms, signs and symptoms, and forms of treatment; while comparing them to the actual realities of this disorder.