John Nash Mind Schizophrenia Movie Analysis

From the beginning of the movie, it was obvious John Nash was different from those around him. He rarely made eye contact with anyone. He rarely spoke unless it was of his passion, math. He rarely stopped working and thinking about one area, his work. While schizophrenia was not the only probable reason for this behavior, the symptoms aligned. Many psychologists would have seen the signs immediately, but not being a professional, I was unaware of the specific mental disorder or illness Nash exhibited many of these symptoms, but it wasn’t until later in the film that I realized why he had a psychological illness.

In the movie A Beautiful Mind, which primarily takes place in the 1950s, John Nash exhibits signs of schizophrenia. He shows both positive and negative signs of the disorder. However, the movie does not portray all symptoms of schizophrenia accurately. Throughout Nash’s life-long battle with his illness, his family is dramatically affected. Overall, the movie implements a positive stigma of the disorder. While John Nash’s journey with his illness is not an entirely accurate depiction, the movie gives a positive light and awareness to schizophrenia.

That disorder is known as paranoid schizophrenia. There are a few symptoms of paranoid which are disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, delusions and hallucinations. Nash mainly suffers from delusions and hallucinations. One example of a positive symptom of Nash’s disorder is when he undertakes Parcher’s job that involves him being an agent for the federal government. This is a positive symptom because it’s an added part of Nash’s life that his mind fabricated. Another example would be when Nash says goodbye to Charles. He thanks him for being his best friend and he cries. He also bids farewell to Macree. While doing so he strokes her by her hair and he really feels that she is a real person. This is an example of a positive symptom because something is added into Nash’s life just like the first example. An example of a negative symptom would be when Nash refuses to have intercourse with his wife, Alicia. He did it in a very mean and abrupt way. This is an example of a negative symptom because Nash’s wantingness to accept secual poleasure from his wife was eliminated by his schizophrenia. Nash refusing sex is also an example of anhedonia which means lack of pleasure. Now let's move on to the next question which is whether the movie implies that a person with schizophrenia can fully recover and can a person recover without

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.

Know I am going to compare what I believe the process of the schizophrenia with John Nash is during the process of this movie. A Beautiful Mind is an inspiring story about triumph over schizophrenia, among the most devastating and disabling of all mental disorders. A Beautiful Mind succeeds in realistically describing the disturbed thinking, emotion, perception, and behavior

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

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

Unfortunately his medication disrupts his relationship with his wife almost as much as his delusions did in the first place. For example, he couldn't respond to his wife in bed, he couldn't show affection to their child, and he couldn't do simple tasks around the house. He stops taking his medication and falls back into his paranoid delusions. Nash has a breakthrough and realizes that the people he is seeing are hallucinations when he realizes that none of them age.

A Beautiful Mind, a 2001 biographical drama, tells the story of John Nash; the film is based on a book by the same name, which was a biography of the real John Nash . The film depicts Nash’s life as he develops paranoid schizophrenia; this paper will focus on the film, the disorder itself, and the accuracies and inaccuracies of how paranoid schizophrenia was portrayed in the film.

The first part of “A Beautiful Mind” introduces Nash and his unique way of thinking. It explains his initial breakthrough in mathematical theories and how he met his wife. In addition, his imaginative characters played a major role in his actions throughout the movie and can be easily thought of as realistic people by viewers until his condition is revealed. An example of one of Nash’s

This film shows how drastic the range of many symptoms schizophrenia can have, but it also take a spin on the concept and gives people dealing with this disorder a sense of hope to one day with the proper treatment, they can return to society. The main character of this movie is a man whose name is John Nash, who will soon be known as the founder of game theory. He is the main character because he changes the face of Schizophrenia. It is uncertain as to why his disorder was triggered in the movie, but we do know stress made it a million times harder to mask. This is where his story begins. The film does a great job of introducing the typical symptoms of this mental disorder , from the social awkwardness of John all the way to his known ways of isolation leaving him

Since it demonstrated the general population that he was daydreaming about, implying that he could even now see them and cooperate with them on the off chance that he decides to. By the very end of the motion picture it demonstrated Nash picking not to associate with his pipedreams and that he had a firm hang on his malady. It is demonstrated that he has picked up the admiration of his associates. This recommends with tolerance and comprehension from others, people with schizophrenia can live successful lives, while dealing with their schizophrenia. I thought his practices were extremely freak in light of the fact that he attempted to conceal everything from the general population who thought about him on the grounds that Nash was anxious about the possibility that that they would some how botch things up for him.

John Nash is well above average in terms of intellectual functioning. He is diagnosed with schizophrenia. He first started exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia when he attended Princeton University. The symptoms that were observed were hallucinations and delusions. In Nash’s mind, he had a college roommate name Charles Herman. In addition, he stated that he met Herman’s niece named Marcee and a secret agent named William Parcher, whom he worked for at a secret location by breaking Russian codes. He developed persecutory delusions while working for William Parcher because he believe that Russians are trying to kill him for

According to the DMV-IV John Nash was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia because of certain criteria he showed, hallucinations and delusions. It is listed in the DMV-IV as 295.30 Paranoid Type-Schizophrenia (DSM-IV, 1994). Dr. Nash had a break from reality when he

. In the beginning of the movie John Nash is presented as a mad genius or a typical stressed college student. He had received a scholarship to Princeton University, this is the place where he started displaying his illness. Nash’s mind was always working to figure out solutions to some unknown problem, however, his actions go way beyond the normal “mad genius”. Nash is mentally ill with one of the worst mental disorders, schizophrenia. In multiple scenes he shows significant signs of biological, psychological and social schizophrenia. Such as repetitive and agitated movements, delusions, and paranoia. For a majority of the film he is actively delusional, seeing and hearing people that aren’t there. “Hearing voices is actually more common and one of the key symptoms in making a diagnosis of schizophrenia” (Ciccarelli & White, 2013, p. 477).