Psychological Analysis And Personal Analysis Of A Beautiful Mind

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.

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

Ron Howard has used cinematography and special effects to create impact as it engages the audience. It helps introduce an excellent main character and helps us experience the reality of the mental illness. We see most of the film through the Nash's point of view, helping us understand his situation and the reality of his delusions. Characters who are in Nash's hallucinations are always seen from his point of view through handheld camera shots. A good example of these point of view shots is the scene where Nash believes Parcher is going to hurt Alicia and his child so he lunges at her in an attempt to protect her. However we also see through Alicia's point of view that “John, there's nobody there” and Nash seems to be attacking her through a senseless act of violence.

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.

is a biographical film that chronicles the life of John Nash from early adulthood through mature adulthood. The film is broken into the standard three act film structure. The first act, exposition, establishes Nash as the main character and seeks to inform the audience of brilliance. The second act, rising action, reveals Nash?s schizophrenia and explores his experience as a schizophrenic in contrast to his life as a mathematician. The last act, resolution, chronicles Nash's return from the depths of his disease culminating in the presentation of the Nobel Prize for Economics. The film does not stray from standard structure. However, its brilliance lies in how the story transitions from Nash?s point of view in the first act to Mrs. Nash?s point of view in the second act. This technique serves to highlight the normalcy experienced by the schizophrenic contrasted with the reality experienced by the supporting

This is traumatic for both him and his family, and once he returns home he barely moves or speaks because of his medications. His wife must now accommodate to his every need while also working and taking care of their baby. He feels worthless, so he stops taking his medications which then causes the hallucinations again. Several events happen which almost drive him to divorce, but they work through it with the acceptance that they will never live a normal lifestyle. Because of John Nash’s mental illness, his every day events were altered and shaped around his schizophrenia.

During the film, you realize that half of the places and situations that Nash mentions are only illusions in his “Beautiful Mind.” At the age of 31, Nash suffers a mental break down; leading to his Schizophrenia diagnosis. The movie does a wonderful job portraying the symptoms and characteristic of a person living with schizophrenia. In

A film that I think relates to this class is “A Beautiful Mind.” This movie follows John Nash who goes to graduate school at Princeton University on a prestigious math scholarship. Nash later goes on to work for the government and help with cracking encrypted enemy communications. Throughout this process he becomes hooked on finding the patterns and it begins infringing on his life and becomes worried he is being followed. Matters become worse when he witnesses a shooting between Soviet military and John Nash’s supervisor and he becomes even more paranoid. When John Nash was giving a lecture, he feels as if he is being pursued by foreign agents and needs to escape. The people he was running from was really Dr. Rosen and this caused him to fight

I had a class where a couple of student had a presentation about Schizophrenia and when we got this assignment, I wanted to see if this film would be the type of film to portray people with schizophrenic with a comprehensive determination, and then avoid the usual judgements such as a person that is really terrifying, psychotic, killer or just plain rare person.

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.

A beautiful mind is a movie based on the life of Mathematician Dr. John Nash. Through Dr. Nash, I will explore the causes, effects, and treatment of paranoid schizophrenia. To begin to understand this disorder of paranoid Schizophrenia we need to know how this debilitating mental disorder works. Schizophrenia is a long-lasting, severe and disabling mental disorder. Normally, schizophrenia victims experience non-existent external voices. At times people suffering from this condition may find themselves to be extremely jumpy and sometimes they may be in complete silence without talking to anyone or motionless for prolonged periods of time. Most schizophrenics also suffer from executive function deficit. This function deficit makes it extremely difficult for them to carry out their day to day activities. Schizophrenia symptoms not only vary among troubled individuals, they often vary with individuals over the course of time (Cooke, 2014).

John Nash had many positive symptoms related to schizophrenia. In the beginning of the film he was looking at a table with punch and fruits and he took a mental outline of what was on the table. With the outline Nash then associated it with the shapes on one of his peers’ tie. This action is just one occurrence when Nash had disordered thinking. Another moment occurred when he was trying to find a pattern in the way pigeons move. Loose associations were not the only symptoms of disordered thinking. He also faced preservation in trying to better economics, which allowed him to gain his doctorate. Another positive symptom Nash has is auditory, visual and tactile hallucinations. While at Princeton John had a “roommate” and he made references to his “roommate” throughout the movie, but his experiences with this individual had all been hallucinations. After he completed his doctorate at Princeton Nash went to work at MIT. At this point his psyche

After winning the Nobel Prize, John Nash continued to work, travel, and speak in conferences. His life and struggles with mental illness were chronicled in the 2001 American biographical drama, A Beautiful Mind, which starred Russell Crowe as Nash and Jennifer Connelly as Alicia. The publicity which came along with winning the Nobel and later with the film, made Nash much more renowned worldwide and put him in a much more comfortable financial position. On May 23, 2015, Nash and Alicia were tragically killed in a collision in New Jersey, US. They had been on their way home from the airport after a visit to Norway, where Nash had won the prestigious Abel Prize. He was 86 years old.

The film A Beautiful Mind is drama, romance, biographical film produced by Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, and Imagine Entertainment. The film, directed by Ron Howard, include memorable names such as, Russel Crowe as John Nash, Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash, Ed Harris as Parcher, Paul Bettany as Charles, Christopher Plummer as Dr. Rosen, and Adam Goldberg as Sol. This film gives much of its credit to the novel written by Sylvia Nasar. The book, A Beautiful Mind, is a biography of John Forbes Nash and the book covers Nash’s years in college and his struggle with schizophrenia. For the film, the writing credits go to Akiva Goldsman. Though this film has its flaws, it is still one of the best eye-opening films out there.

There are many causes of schizophrenia that psychiatrist and clinical psychologist look at when diagnosing someone like genes, chemical actions by drugs, abnormality working of the brain, and environmental risk factors. Knowing the cause could help the doctor figure out the right treatment plan to help schizophrenia people receive the help they need to focus on their real lives. There are several treatments that can help schizophrenia one being antipsychotic medications which it helps control the nerves. Then you have support group, rehabilitation, and cognitive therapy that each could help in a psychological way. Schizophrenia relates to the movie by explaining Nash’s first symptoms of schizophrenia develop when he is at Princeton when he gets a roommate named Charles. Charles is a delusion; he does not existed. He also