John Nash Schizophrenia Case Study

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.

In the film " A Beautiful Mind" John Nash experiences a few different positive symptoms. The first of these positive symptoms are seen through the hallucinations John has of having a room -mate while at Princeton. This room- mate continues to stay "in contact" with John through out his adult life and later this room- mate's niece enters Johns mind as another coinciding hallucination. Nash's other hallucination is Ed Harris, who plays a government agent that seeks out Nash's intelligence in the field of code- breaking.

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

Schizophrenia, paranoid type was researched in terms of diagnostic criteria based on many different actions that affect people in multiple ways. Schizophrenia is a disease in the brain that is an emotionally draining illness that can affect the victim along with anyone in contact with the victim. RB a young man has a diagnosis of schizophrenia, paranoid type. He lives at home with a loving family and he was always socially active and great student. Schizophrenia has been a severely stigmatized disorder has many different aspects to the disorder. The standard diagnostic criteria for Schizophrenia are characteristic symptoms, social and occupational dysfunction and the duration of the symptoms. Everyday health describes Paranoid Schizophrenia as “Delusions of grandeur or persecution afflict paranoid schizophrenics, along with feelings of anger. These patients often argue a lot and can be violent.” RB is believed to have all the concerning aspects that clients with Schizophrenia have. I will be developing a case study to discuss RB’s positive and negative symptoms, delusional thinking, what medications would be helpful, screenings important to RB’s diagnosis and psychosocial treatments that he would benefit from.

Simon is a Caucasian male of undisclosed age who described his experience living with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. During the course of the video, Simon reports that he had his first episode at the age of 17, and to the date of the recording, has never gone longer than 10 months without an episode. Currently, Simon demonstrates full reasoning capabilities and coherent thoughts and analysis about his disorder and outlook, even though he had recently experienced one approximately four weeks prior. However, any current symptomology that Simon may be experiencing is not discussed. Nonetheless, it does not appear during the video that Simon is delusional, psychotic, or responding to internal stimuli. Simon discussed the importance

The devastating mental illness of Schizophrenia is a major concern of modern medicine. Schizophrenia associates any one person with multiple problems. These problems include delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized behavior (Long 1999). The illness is a disease of the brain that is explained clinically as, disease of the mind, a simple explanation given by Nancy Andreasen (1999). It is important to understand that there are different types of this mental illness as well. The different types are the paranoid, catatonic, disorganized, undifferentiated and the residual type. In cases of the paranoid type preoccupations with one or more delusions or frequent auditory hallucinations occur. The

Early in the movie, Nash begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends.2. Another scene, he is giving a speech and suddenly two men appear in the background. John panics and runs away

“A Beautiful mind” is a story based on the life of John Forbes Nash, who is a famous mathematician. Unfortunately, he is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia that majorly affects his personal and social life. Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder in which the patient’s ability to function is impaired by severely distorted beliefs, perceptions, and thought processes (Hockenbury, 2010).

This film was designed well. I felt that this film was intended to help people understand schizophrenia from the view point of the person with the mental illness. It changed my perception of people with this mental illness. Before watching this film, I was unware of the functions that each part of the brain took and the effects on each part of the brain for a person with this mental illness. I learned that the brain of a person with schizophrenia is physiologically and anatomically different. One comment that was made on the video that changed my previously held believes was that people with schizophrenia turn to drugs for a solution. Before, I thought that people with schizophrenia

Even though he received many comments about his strange character, John Nash did not stop and analyzed his situation. He simply believed he was different, but did not consider it a stigma. But, once John started to panic and have hallucinations about Russians persecuting him to kill him, Alicia decided to take action and call psychiatrist Rosen from the McArthur Psychiatrist Hospital. Nonetheless, it took a couple of months for John Nash to accept that he had schizophrenia. Once at the hospital John told Dr. Rosen, “I find that highly unlikely [to have schizophrenia]…

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

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

Nash (Russell Crowe) who is a genius mathematician that eventually finds himself struggling with Paranoid Schizophrenia. “Schizophrenia is a brain disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and dis- ordered thinking and behavior (mayoclinic.org)”. John Nash the main character has severe hallu- cinations, in particular with three main people . Although the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) no longer uses types of schizophrenia, Nash is diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia, which is the belief of being persecuted, in this case the belief of persecution is not reality based. The reason I believe that he is diagnosed with this type of schiz- ophrenia is because of the fact that he is envisioning these three people following him and ha- rassing him when in reality there is never someone actually there.

John Nash suffers from Paranoid Schizophrenia. He is a gifted mathematician who began graduate school at Princeton University in 1947. We will begin Mr. Nash’s history from this point in time, for it is here that his symptoms first began to emerge. During this time in his life he is in what is known as the prodromal phase of schizophrenia, which is a period before active