Beautiful Mind: Paranoid Schizophrenia

Seeing as Nash's experiences in the film follow the Type II diagnosis (DSM-IV-TR) one could reasonably expect that his symptoms would follow in the same diagnostic pattern. But, instead of coming on slowly and consistently, these auditory and visual hallucinations come on acutely (actually almost immediately). This extremely acute onset of serious symptoms is out of line with what should be occurring. What should be shown is slowly deteriorating symptoms that are in line with increasingly complex delusions. The onset of delusions after the hallucinations is also outside the norm of the differential of Schizophrenia, although not impossible.

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 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.

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 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 addition to hallucinations and delusions, other symptoms were portrayed in the film. Nash was constantly suspicious of the people around him. This was a result of his belief that the Russians were after him. For example, when Nash was taken to the psychiatric hospital, he thought that Dr. Rosen was Russian and trying to stop him from doing his work. As a result, Nash resorted to violence in order to protect himself.

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.

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.

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

The motion picture "A Beautiful Mind" recounts the account of Nobel Prize champ John Nash's battle with schizophrenia. It takes after his excursion from the point where he is not by any means mindful he has schizophrenia, to the point where Nash and his wife figure out how to deal with his condition. The film gives a considerable measure of data and understanding into the mental state of schizophrenia, including data on the indications, the treatment and cures, the life for the individual and for the singular's crew. The film is powerful at showing different ideas identified with schizophrenia, and gives a knowledge into the infection of schizophrenia.

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.

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

There are five types of Schizophrenia. These types are: Paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual Schizophrenia. Paranoid schizophrenia is where people see hallucinations and have delusions about a problem or conspiracy. John Nash, the Nobel peace prize winner, is a good example of someone that has paranoid schizophrenia. “He believed that all men wearing red ties were part of a communist plot against

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.

At the time of Nash's diagnosis, only the older treatment models for schizophrenia were available. Those models viewed patients with schizophrenia as hopeless cases who needed to stabilized with hospitalization. While being hospitalized the patients are maintained with medications, such as Thorazine. These medications had heavy tranquilizing effects and made management of patients easier. But the drugs being induced only suppressed the disease; the drugs could neither arrest nor reverse the positive symptoms. As a result Nash resisted his medications, and the positive symptoms returned. What is fascinating is that Nash himself applied a form of Self-Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy, and that this actually did work. The basic premise of cognitive therapy is that beliefs, expectations, and assessments of self and the world affect how we perceive ourselves and others, how we approach problems, and how successful we are in coping and in achieving goals. This is a contemporary treatment model for schizophrenia, and certainly in the case of John Nash, is arguably indicated.