A Beautiful Mind

John Nash is an intensely unsociable man. Throughout the movie, ‘A Beautiful Mind’ he shows that in a few different ways. First of all, John Nash shows that he an intensely unsociable man when his wife finds out that his best friend is a not a real person. It’s just a figment of his imagination. He has no real friends. Secondly, he shows that he is unsociable because he eats and works alone at Princeton. He prefers to work alone in the library as opposed to being with his classmates in the faculty lounge. Lastly, he showed that he

The evidence of the cognitive symptoms, as with any disease, is more difficult to see externally in a person suffering from Schizophrenia. John Nash was not a very social person and I believe that this is attributed to the inability of expressing thoughts and feelings caused by the disease. His office in the movie looks somewhat like what I imagined the inside of his mind to look like; cluttered. Pictures on top of articles, on top of more pictures. There were papers hanging from the ceiling and string connecting pictures while forming patterns. One pattern I saw repeated a few times throughout the film was a spider- web image. This to me just shows how everything in his mind seemed as though it was connected in some way.

1. The psychological disorder portrayed in character of John Nash in the film A Beautiful Mind is schizophrenia. The most prominent symptoms were hallucinations, grandiose delusions, paranoia, a persecutory complex. Beginning with DSM-V, two or more symptoms from the list of schizophrenic criteria must be present for at least six months and active for at least one month. John Nash certainly qualifies for another DSM-V criterion of diagnosis, social/occupational dysfunction, due to his apparent abandonment of relevant mathematical work in favor of conspiracy analysis/obsession. Nash is given the official diagnosis of schizophrenia during his admission to the mental hospital.

The second depicted area that needs to be inspected is the range of symptoms expressed in the film. There are three areas of symptoms that need to be checked for accuracy. First, the most easily identifiable by the viewing audience, are the visual hallucinations that he experiences. There are several inconsistencies between those symptoms that he experiences and those that Nash suffered. The first inconsistency that occurs is that Nash never actually experienced visual hallucinations. Actually, it is extremely rare for Schizophrenics to suffer from both visual and auditory hallucinations. The second inconsistency in the presentation of his (supposed) visual hallucinations is the vividness of the hallucinations. The vast majority of visual symptoms are described as "out of

The movie, A Beautiful Mind was inspired by a novel about John Nash Jr. that shared the same name. John Nash Jr. was a famous mathematician who taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University. After graduating from Princeton, he quickly gained recognition in the field of mathematics where he won a Nobel Prize in economics, as well as articulating a myriad of mathematical proofs and theories. Nash had been experiencing delusions and auditory hallucinations that led him to believe he was working for the pentagon to identify undercover-Soviet communication in the media. After his wife started noticing erratic behavior she forced him to go to a psychiatric hospital. His trip to the psychiatric hospital ended with him having

Nash's first hallucination is in his college dorm room when his drunken roommate Charles appears. Charles acts as a mentor to Nash by making him realize that work and studies are not the only things life has to offer. Throughout his life, Nash has been a "lone wolf", and Charles

In A Beautiful Mind (Howard, 2001), John Nash is a brilliant mathematician out of Princeton University that strives to make his individual discovery that has never been seen before to make his mark. He slaves over his work to identify this individual thought as he sits on the brink of international success and fame, and then is sought after by the American Government for his astounding code breaking ability to located atomic bombs that hold a threat to the United States. Along his journey to make his individual thought and save the nation, we discover that social outcast John Nash becomes pained with hallucinations and emotional struggle as he discovers he suffers from schizophrenia and has no sense of reality. He comes to find his government involvement and classified work is nothing but a fragment of his imagination. Nash struggles to battle through this condition and live a normal life to the best of his ability. In the end Nash finds success in handling his condition and wins a Nobel Prize in the later moments of his life with the support of his wife.

Nash has a desire to become better than what is already out there in the mathematic community. When discussing going to classes and studying with his peers Nash dryly adds, “Classes dull the mind” (Nash). Nash believes whole heartedly that he is better than every one else in the mathematic community and the only way to prove so is to come up with an original idea. Christopher like wise has his big ego portrayed within the novel on several different occasions. For Christopher it is a sense that the people around him are of lesser thought.

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

In the movie it seemed like he did not have a lack of social involvement with the outside world but once the viewer realized that the roommate and Parcher were not real then it all came together. All of Nash’s symptoms started when he began looking for his original idea to be published. The DSM5 says the reaction to stress causes individuals with schizophrenia to have increases in negative mood and behaviors. I believe the stress of trying to find something new pushed him over the edge and forced him to create a world that helped him cope with the pressure but in reality it created more work for him to do. Nash’s over all functions in everyday life were impaired due to his disorder. After going to the psychiatric hospital and beginning his medication he began to suffer from intellectual paralysis cause by the medication. His delusion might have gone away but his work and overall well-being suffered which caused him to stop taking the medication and have another psychic

The movie, "A Beautiful Mind", John Nash, who is played by Russell Crowe, is a true story about a mathematician whose life is horrific because of his disease, schizophrenia. He was an egocentric man who studied Mathematics in Princeton University. During the whole time that he studied in Princeton, he was trying to come up with his own original idea. He felt that by only

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.

Nash is the subject of the Hollywood movie A Beautiful Mind. The film, loosely based on the biography of the same name,

Most people remember having an imaginary friend growing up when they were young, but when that friend or friends appear in your late 20’s or 30’s as they did for John Nash, the Nobel Prize winning mathematician, they are usually called delusions or hallucinations. These are symptoms of schizophrenia and after making a groundbreaking discovery in the field of economics, Nash began experiencing hallucinations of a best friend, federal agents and soviet spies. The themes of this movie include moving a cross the line from genius to mentally insane and overcoming a great obstacle. In the film, A Beautiful Mind, you watch Nash hit the peak of his career only to be betrayed by his own

Even when an individual has a strong consolidated reality of their world, it is still susceptible to other’s influence and may eventually conform to this alter reality that is so strongly condoned by people surrounding them. Though one’s reality, formed by experiences of childhood and memory, may be strong and seemingly concrete, the persistent encouragement from others that the particular reality is false may yet have an immense impact on one’s reality. In Ron Howard’s adaptation of the biography of Professor John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, the notion that one’s consolidated reality can succumb to other’s influence is profoundly illustrated. Professor John Nash suffers from schizophrenia, and hence has illusions of people that do not exist. Though he had been strongly convinced that these people do not exist, he still sees them. However, he acknowledges them to be non-existent and a figment of his imagination. This poignantly expounds the strength of impact that other’s influence has on one’s interpretation of reality and indeed strongly disproves the idea that “Seeing is Believing”. Though Professor Nash’s illusions are caused by a mental disorder, it nonetheless shows the effect that the desire to ‘fit in’ to society or