Reflection 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.

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

     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.

The friend looked like he was fearful of John and what he might do. Many times people viewed Nash as dangerous and insane. Most of the characters carried a negative attitude toward mental illness in general, except for John’s wife Alicia. She is supportive and wants John to get better ‘so he can get back to being the man she married’. Alicia’s attitude toward his mental illness was understanding and supportive, while also pushing him to get better. The mental health professional in this movie is Dr. Rosen, who is only seen a few times in the whole movie. He is portrayed as a reasonable, logical man who is only there to help. Hyler’s stereotypes of mental illness can be applied to this movie also. Instead of Nash and his disorder portraying him as a homicidal manic or the like, Nash was portrayed as another stereotype of Hyler’s that is rarely depicted in modern films, the enlightened member of society. Nash is the enlightened member of society who envisions great things and appears to be a well-balanced individual, even with his delusions at the beginning of the movie. This stereotype contradicts our usual view of individuals with mental

While most people diagnosed with schizophrenia rarely overcome the disease, John Nash, the hero of this film, ultimately is able to attain the level of mental reasoning that he previously enjoyed. The touching part of this film, however, is not merely Nash's recovery, but rather the path that finally enabled him to recover. Through the strength of her love, Nash's wife Alicia was able to help him battle the ravaging mental illness.

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.

In the film, “A Beautiful Mind”, Russell Crowe plays the character of John Nash. John Nash is an awardee of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. During his university years, Nash puts extreme pressure upon himself as he tries to publish a work out of his original idea which allows him to develop a new concept of governing dynamics. Some years later, Nash is invited to the Pentagon to crack encrypted enemy telecommunication. Despite his success in this field, Nash believes that he can do greater things as he finds his regular duties at MIT unexciting and beneath his talent. Nash finds himself working under a mysterious supervisor, William Parcher, from the United States Department of Defense. He starts looking for pattern in newspapers and magazines in order to prevent a Soviet plot as he becomes increasingly obsessed about these patterns. Dr. Rosen suggests Alicia, John’s wife, that Nash has paranoid schizophrenia which implies that some individuals from his life were all part of his hallucinations which includes his roommate, Charles, and supervisor, William Parcher. However, John’s pride in his work and his desire to be great, prevent him from seeing the truth as he keeps working for Parcher. Despite facing such obstacles, Nash learns to accept that Parcher and other figures are all part of his hallucinations. I am the kind of person who sets my own personals goals and gets

One can be drawn into a world which differs from societal normalities and can therefore deepen understanding of the human experience. Howard lures us into the contrasting life of Nash as one who has lived his life as an outsider and is different to the others surrounding him. This is portrayed through the opening scene with the use of a wide shot, with the men in front of Nash creating vector lines which invites us in to focus on Nash, highlighting to us that while everyone else’s body language has them looking forwards and confident. In contrast Nash’s is slumped with his head bowed looking at the ground conveying his isolation and discomfort. However with the rhetorical question “Now who among you will be the next Morse? The next Einstein”, Nash’s disengagement with the lecturer changes as a close up shows him looking up, followed by cuts between a Hanson and Nash juxtaposing them in

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 portray a man that develops Schizophrenia throughout the movie. Schizophrenia according to, Licht, Hull, and Ballantyne 2017 is a “psychological disorder that includes delusion, hallucination, disorganized speech, and abnormal speech”. According to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders[DSM-5] Fifth Edition,2014, John Nash

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.

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 insulin shock therapy was hard to watch because he had to have the injections five times a week for ten weeks with the shock treatments. When he was finally able to come home, he was just on oral medication. After a while, he decided on his own to stop taking the medications and the hallucinations returned to his mind. He has a moment of clarity, because he realizes one of his hallucinations can’t be real because she never ages. He returns to the hospital on his own and receives additional therapy. At this point in his illness, he chooses to ignore the hallucinations and not feed into them so that he is able to go back to work to some degree. I agree and disagree with the treatment that Nash received. I think the insulin shock therapy probably could have been discarded as it seemed the medicines he was on when he came out worked fine. I do think that he needed a caretaker to make sure that he took his medicine, instead of like his wife in the movie, giving it to him and walking away. She was entrusted with his care when released from the hospital, so must show some accountability to make sure he takes the medication. Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy has been shown to be the most promising in helping patients with this disease (Franklin, 2004). I think with his treatment, it would have been beneficial to have some type of cognitive and behavioral management skills that would teach him how to

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.