Schizophrenia In A Beautiful Mind

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.

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.

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

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.

When watching, “Alice in Wonderland” as a child of course I didn’t know what Schizophrenia was, therefore I didn’t recognize or look for this in the character of Alice. After doing research and re-watching the film, it became clearer to me that Alice does in fact show symptoms of Schizophrenia.

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.

Part A “Beautiful Mind (2001)” John Forbes Nash was one of the greatest mathematicians; his life story was shared through a descriptive movie called Beautiful Mind. He made incredible strides in the game theory and geometry, all while suffering from a mental illness. Delusion, hearing voices, believing that people followed him, along with believing in different conspiracies, were all a part of his early life. During the early onset of the illness, his mental issues would appear and then disappear, when he was in remission.

“To some extent insanity is a form of conformity; people are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But it’s really not so simple…I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also” (qtd. in “John Forbes Nash”). To many “normal” people, the terms “insanity” or “madness” portray a negative connotation-- the unfortunate ones “suffer” from mental illness. However, brilliant mathematician and Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash, who has paranoid schizophrenia, cherishes his unique condition as a means of retreat from the brutalities of reality (“John Forbes Nash”). Since ancient times, people have observed the link between madness and creative genius. Indeed, research has proven that the two conditions of

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

The film “A Beautiful Mind” is about the life of Nobel prize winner John Nash Jr who suffered with schizophrenia. The movie starts as Nash has entered graduate school at Princeton, he was a mathematical genius who made a discovery early I his career of an original idea that helped him earn international acclaim. The socially awkward genius soon found himself on a painful journey of self-discovery. John Nash made up a life that was not real, his friends and secrete job were also not real. He could not distinguish between what was real, imaginary and made up in his head. His diagnosis of schizophrenia interfered with his everyday life and overall caused him to break until he decided to ignore what would forever haunt him.

“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).

Schizophrenia is a mental disease that affects the mind, it prevents you from knowing what's real to what is simply a fragment of the person's imagination. For those who suffer from schizophrenia it's an ongoing battle that has no cure. Not only does it take a toll on the person's life , but also on those who are around for the journey. In the movie , A Beautiful Mind , John Nash a mathematician suffers from delusional paranoia, which takes him years to come to realize isn't real. Nash was truly an exceptional human being not only was he brilliant he had a good heart, and many of his colleagues respected his line of work.

In the movie Beautiful Minds the main character is John Nasb. Throughout his young age he is a prodigy. We can see this because we know that as his friends play outside he sits inside reading mathematical books. As the movie goes on we can see the family’s world slowly falling apart as we start to see John’s schizophrenic self emerge. As years slip away he loses precious time that could have been spent on mathematical work. After people have began to notice the slipping and his mental disorder he is taken to be treated for it. He is treated by injections of insulin 5 times a week for 10 weeks. At first he refuses the fact that he has a mental disorder and claims that he is on a government mission and that the people that took him our

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

A Beautiful Mind is centered on the character named John Forbes Nash. Nash was a bright and intelligent mathematician. He started his career at Princeton University. Nash was a math graduate, who was widely recognized by others for his smartness. John was socially awkward and spent a lot of his time trying to come up with an innovative math equation. The importance of Nash’s work he did four decades earlier received recognition and in 1994 he received a Nobel Peace Prize. Going mid-ways in the movie, you start to see that a lot of the situations and things John portrays, are only created illusions of his mind. From there, you start to see how John fits the signs and symptoms of having schizophrenia.