In the movie A Beautiful Mind the character John Nash has schizophrenia. He has both positive and negative symptoms of this disorder. We see his viewpoint of the world throughout the movie and do not know his disorder until the middle through the ending of the movie, but it is the most clear at the end. I believe the film is realistic to the portrayal of a person with this disorder. The film makes you feel what John Nash is feeling by seeing what he sees everyday. John Nash gets schizophrenia in his early adulthood. This movie was based on a true story about John Nash.
John Nash’s positive symptoms include: delusions, hallucinations, disordered behaviors and thoughts, and odd movements. His delusions is when he thinks he is a secret agent for the government working with cryptography. This delusion makes him believe that the government implanted a code into his arm. Everyday he looks through newspapers for codes to tell the government of what Russia is planning to do with the bombs. This delusion makes him act on edge and people start to notice and he is forced to go to a mental i...
In the movie A Beautiful Mind, the description of schizophrenia is shown in many accurate ways. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) states that the symptoms of this disease are delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or unorganized or catatonic behavior. People with schizophrenia are also socially withdrawn and awkward when in contact with other people. These traits of the sickness are shown in detail throughout the movie by way of the character John Nash’s struggle with the disease. Nash is a very intelligent professor but believes he is working with the government to foil a Soviet attack plot. Nash eventually goes onto win a Nobel Prize for one of his theories. The movie shows the effects of schizophrenia on not only one man, but also on the friends and family of the ill individual. Treatment is discussed but not to any great length due to him ignoring the doctor’s orders on medication. Overall the movie shows some very prevalent traits of the disease in great detail during certain parts of the film.
Both the positive symptoms and the negative symptoms had been described in the book. The character of Nash shows all the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. The film demonstrates the type of therapy when Nash is admired to the hospital. Also, the textbooks mention the types of medication and the film states that these medications are crucial to reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia, and it also explained how certain treatments as well as medications have side effects. Overall, this film is a great resource for people who are interested on how the illness of schizophrenia starts and what triggers it. This film it was well covered the life of John Forbes Nash Jr. in terms of the aspects of his illness, and how he was able to manage to live the rest of his life and career with paranoid schizophrenia.
John Nash’s needs largely influenced his hallucinations. John Nash struggled to connect with other people his entire life. He was an outcast and spent most of his time studying mathematics. His need to connect with another person was fulfilled when he hallucinated he had a roommate. This fictional roommate, Charles, was his closest companion. John confided in Charles whenever he faced a problem. Charles helped him through the struggles he faced while attending Princeton. Charles would also praise John whenever he made accomplishments in his work. John wanted to be appreciated for his hard work at Princeton and Charles made him feel important. John hallucinated that Charles had a young niece, Marcee. The hallucination of Marcee met his need to be a parental figure. He loved Marcee like she was his own daughter and wanted to care for her. Marcee was also comforting presence for John. She was an innocent child who would never harm anyone. John also hallucinated he was working with a secret government official, Parcher. John thought Parcher sought him out for his excellent skills in math. This met John’s need to be praised for his work in mathematics. John wanted to feel important and wanted to use his skills to help the world. When he imagined he was
The type of emotional disturbance John Nash experiences is paranoid schizophrenia. Some hallucination John Nash had was his imaginary roommate Charles Herman and Marcee. He had trouble distinguishing what was real and when he thought he was a spy hiding from the Russian. He had problems communicating with others.
The film shows many positive symptoms of schizophrenia such as delusions of grandeur, delusions of influence, and persecutory delusions. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia are symptoms that are present in an individual due to the illness. In the movie Nash hallucinates an individual named William Parcher, played by Ed Harris. Parcher works for the United States Department of Defense. He enlists Nash’s help in breaking a Russian code in order to find a portable atomic bomb. The entire situation of the portable atomic bomb is a figment of Nash’s mind. This specific figment falls into the category of delusions of grandeur. The delusion of grandeur entails that an individual begins to think more highly of themselves, and believes that they are more important than other individuals in society. Nash believes that he is the most gifted mathematician, and he is the only individual who can break the Russian codes which are hidden in common day written media. During a mult...
The movie A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard, tells the story of Nobel Prize winner, and mathematician, John Nash’s struggle with schizophrenia. The audience is taken through Nash’s life from the moment his hallucinations started to the moment they became out of control. He was forced to learn to live with his illness and learn to control it with the help of Alicia. Throughout the movie the audience learns Nash’s roommate Charles is just a hallucination, and then we learn that most of what the audience has seen from Nash’s perspective is just a hallucination. Nash had a way of working with numbers and he never let his disease get in the way of him doing math. Throughout the movie the audience is shown how impactful and inspirational John Nash was on many people even though he had a huge obstacle to overcome.
“A Beautiful Mind” is a remarkable movie that sheds light on a complicated and debilitating disorder, in which the person seems to have no control over. It is enlightening and heart warming, I would highly recommend this movie. I must admit, the first time I watch the movie, I went into it not knowing anything about schizophrenia and when it was over, I still felt like I didn’t fully understand the disorder; however, the second time I watched with the knowledge of what schizophrenia is and all of the various symptoms and I find it astonishing that Nash was able to overcome the disorder by sheer willpower over his own mind, as he chose to ignore the voices in his head.
John Nash is a brilliant mathematician who struggled with paranoid schizophrenia for several decades of his life. Nash displayed erratic behavior and suffered from auditory hallucinations. He believed he was receiving messages from outerspace and was convinced that there was conspiracy to undermine the American government. On one occasion, Nash burst into the office of the New York Times and accused them of preventing him from receiving important encrypted messages only he could decipher. Nash’s wife admitted him to a psychiatric hospital only two years after their marriage (Nasar, 2001).
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 thought he was working for the government to break codes sent from Russia in the newspapers across the county. In this instance he was being delusional because he created an alternate reality for himself. He showed signs of hallucinations by “hearing” people he regularly talked to and gave them names, although in the movie, they were visual as well.
Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard is a story about John Nash whose life took a turn. John Nash went to college Princeton University when he first started seeing stuff, although he was unaware of it. Ever since he started going there he didn't have any friends and people made fun of him, because he was socially awkward. John Nash created a character in his mind to cope with it. This character that he created was his “room mate” named Charles . Throughout the years he used Charles as a way to cope with him being lonely . A couple years passed and he got invited to the Pentagon to crack a cod where he later met “Parcher” telling him to work for the government against the Soviet Union.At the time John Nash thought this real, not knowing this was all
Nash showed much change in the way he was functioning through the movie. After treatment, it seemed like he had his disease under control, but he still had problems disbelieving in his hallucinations by still acting on them. For example, he still thought he was working for the government by helping them decode secrete codes in the newspapers. He tried to hide this from his wife by keeping all his work hidden in a shed. Eventually, Nash's life is seen as he returns to the college to teach and continues completing his mathematics work, while still seeing the delusions. This life is clearly far from normal. But for Nash, it also seems the best option.
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 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind stresses the importance of memory and how memories shape a person’s identity. Stories such as “In Search of Lost Time” by Proust and a report by the President’s Council on Bioethics called “Beyond Therapy” support the claims made in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
This is because unfortunately, people who take this kind of drugs often do not return to the same level of functioning they were at before the illness. This is justified in the movie as Nash is between intellectual paralysis of the antipsychotic drugs and his delusions. As a genius, it is difficult for Nash to do nothing but mathematics. When Sol visits Nash, he sees that Nash is still trying do simple mathematics problems to fill his time. However, intelligence, which means the ability to learn from one’s experiences, acquire knowledge, and use resources effectively in adapting to new situations or solving problems (Stenberg & Kaufman, 1998; Wechsler, 1975) still applies to Nash as he still has long term memory. Not just that, Nash also had made attempt to stop feeding drugs as he could not be a good husband and wife and found him could not give his attention and love to his wife. However, he always bothered by his hallucinations and delusions even though he takes back his medicines and eventually at the end of the movie he managed to ignore them that still haunts him and leads a normal life. The last scene is the dramatic scene when Nash’s action in stopping to take medicine has finally taken a toll to him. However, fortunately, he manages to get back to reality. The most heart-breaking part is when Alicia appeals to her husband and tells him to distance himself from his hallucinatory world and live in the real world with her and their child. She appeals not to his brilliant intellect, but to his heart. The support from Alicia has been the reinforcement for John Nash to change himself, be a better person and tries to fit into society. I agree with each message conveyed in this movie. It brings a story of a stressed genius student who unconsciously builds hallucinations and acknowledges audience on how negative symptoms can leads us to psychological disorder, the knowledge about
John is afflicted with paranoid hallucinations; by the time he is taken to a mental hospital under the care of the mysterious Dr. Rosen, he is diagnosed as having an advanced case of schizophrenia.