Schizophrenia In The Film 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.

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.

A Beautiful Mind, is a movie that was produced in the year 2002 by Universal Pictures. This film is about a man named John Nash who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, paranoid type. Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder with key features including delusions, hallucinations, difficulty concentrating, and other negative symptoms (Parekh, 2017). Paranoid schizophrenia specifically, is “characterized mainly by the presence of delusions of persecution or grandeur” (Sadock and Sadock, 2005). The typical age for the onset of schizophrenia is in late adolescence or early adulthood, and is seen in men and women equally (Sadock and Sadock, 2005).

I think for the most part the movie did a good job portraying schizophrenia as it is in reality. Nash experienced delusions of grandeur that blurred the lines between reality and imagination, illuminating a powerful example of just how debilitating schizophrenia can be. Auditory hallucination is the most common symptom found in schizophrenia. The one’s experienced by Nash in the film were in-line with how the DSM specifies them to be. The film puts a large emphasis on the paranoia experienced by Nash. In the DSM-IV, paranoia was a specifier for a sub-category of schizophrenia, called paranoid schizophrenia. The new version of the DSM does not include paranoia as a specifier for schizophrenia, rather it is viewed as a comorbid mental disorder. One aspect I thought was overdone concerns the visual hallucinations. It was necessary for the entertainment value of the film, but is largely inaccurate in its attempt to represent the visual hallucinations experienced by individuals who have schizophrenia. Visual hallucinations are not common in schizophrenia, especially not to the degree the movie depicts, in which whole scenarios and events are vividly made up. I think it is a common misconception that visual hallucinations are a hallmark of schizophrenia. I think that the producers of this movie included

A Beautiful Mind illustrates many of the topics relating to psychological disorders. The main character of the film, John Nash, is a brilliant mathematician who suffers from symptoms of Schizophrenia. His symptoms include paranoid delusions, grandiosity, and disturbed perceptions. The disease disrupts his social relationships, his studies, and his work. The more stressful his life becomes the more his mind is not able to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

Over the last couple of days, we watched “A beautiful mind” by John Howard. This movie is based on middle-aged guy, named John Nash with a disorder called schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a disorder characterized by severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior. John Nash is faced with many challenges in his life. He deals with delusional characters, which influences his actions.

If all I knew about schizophrenia was based off of the clips I saw on the movie "A Beautiful Mind" then I would not have an accurate picture of the illness. The main reason being is that not every schizophrenic experiences the same delusions and or hallucinations. If I went around judging schizophrenics based on what I saw in a few movie clips then psychology would not be the correct major for me. For example, I would be ignorant to think that every schizophrenic has visual hallucinations that are trying to harm his or her loved ones (as demonstrated in the movie). When in acuality, according to our book, auditory hallucinations are the most common globally.

In the movie A Beautiful Mind, the main character, John Nash struggles with schizophrenia. John’s hallucinations in the movie allow him to cope with all the stresses and fill his psychological needs. Marcee, the niece of his imagined roommate, is an example of this. She is a fragile, innocent girl who gives him that paternal connection he desires. Charles, the roommate, acts as his only friend in his world.

The movie, A Beautiful Mind, is based on the life of John Nash who won Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The beginning of the movie shows John Nash’s college life during his time being Carnegie Scholarship recipient and graduate student at the Princeton University. John Nash lives with a roommate Charles Herman who is a literature student at Princeton University. He is shown as being odd among his behavior and thinking among his friends. He talks to his friends about wanting to publish article with original idea.

Title In Ron Howard's work, A Beautiful Mind depicts the real life account of mathematical genius, Professor John Nash, and his struggle with paranoid Schizophrenia. In the beginning of the film, Nash displays early onset symptoms of schizophrenia such as disorganized speech and behavior towards his peers at Princeton University. An example of this is when Nash goes to a bar with a few friends and attempts to seduce a woman into sex. However due to his schizophrenic tendencies, he came across too blunt, aggressive, and awkward in his offer; insulting the woman and getting slapped as a result.

The beautiful mind was a true story about John Forbes Nash Jr. a famous mathematician, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia that highly affected his personal and social life. John Nash faced many challenges in his life as well as his personal life, and most of his friends thought he was just plain crazy. Unfortunately, schizophrenia is a complicated and misunderstood mental condition to most. In the movie The Beautiful Mind, schizophrenia is portrayed as a split personality or multiple personality disorder and what is conflicting to realty of schizophrenia is the separation of normal balance of emotions and thinking. So Nash hallucinated and had imaginary friends rather than having split personality or multiple personality.

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.

Introduction A beautiful Mind is an emotional film speaking of the life of a brilliant Mathematician who suffers from schizophrenia. The disease slowly takes over his mind as he separated himself from his family and friends and replaced it with an obsessed research guided by a mysterious fictional U.S. Agent. He struggled to rebuild his marriage and career. He redeemed himself by a triumph of the spirit.

The movie Beautiful Mind is about Dr. John Nash who is a mathematical genius and a natural code breaker, at least in his own mind. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia which is a psychological disorder. According to Baird (2011), paranoid schizophrenia is when a person has “delusions of grandeur and persecution often accompanied by hallucinations” (p. 273). The person has a split from real life circumstances, where their new reality becomes actual fact to them.