Theme Of 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.

     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.

Another common symptom of schizophrenia is anhedonia. This is “the inability to experience pleasure or sustain interests in activities” (Cara & MacRae, 2005). Nash definitely experienced this symptom. Nash had the opportunity to make

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.

I watched A Beautiful Mind for this project. The movie is based on the real life experiences of John Nash. The film begins with Nash arriving at Princeton University for his first year. We are introduced to many of the main characters in the first few minutes of the film. We meet his enemy, who Nash believes he is smarter that, and his roommate who drinks too much but is always there as a helping hand for John. As Nash begins his collegiate career we begin to see some early symptoms of his disorder. Nash is a gifted math student obsessed with finding a new way to predict patterns. He studies pigeons, his classmates as they play football outside his dorm window, and even the way his classmates talk to women at the bar. We see Nash

Often times people can experience emotional distress, hopelessness, anger, guilt or loneliness. In the behavioral aspect, an individual may feel irritability, social isolation, aggression, self destructive behavior or self harm. Psychologically they could have panic attacks,

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

A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard. The main character John Nash played by Russell Crowe was a genius Mathematician who came up with what he called his “Original Idea” which lead him to become very successful and well around man. His “Original Idea” slowly become a nightmare to Professor Nash, he began to have delusions, and hallucination. He created a world where he thought he was a solider working for Parcher played by Ed Harris, that was helping he run away from and fight again the Russians. Throughout the film John Nash plays the role of a genius Math Professor that develops Schizophrenia, delusion and hallucinations.

First, schizophrenia affects learning. The symptoms happen when Nash was in graduate school. He has positive symptoms which include distractible speech, pressure and derailment. At the Princeton University, he does not come to the class. He focuses on his mathematics world. When he begs with the professor, he seems so nervous because he wants to get a job. His speech is so fast, coherent and clear. He does not give chance to people to talk. However, these does not affect his intelligence. He did well in the school, and becomes a graduate student at the top University. Also, he discovers a new theory when he has emotion disturbance. He is not problem on memory, use of vocabulary, grammar, reading and listening. So, the mental disorder makes

John Nash stated that he works at MIT and as a secret agent that works to break Russian codes. He then realized that his job as a secret agent is not real.

Just like in reality, this movie does not identify any causal factors associated with schizophrenia, but its treatment and management are portrayed to work effectively with antipsychotic/ psychotropic medications and Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that makes the affected individual “to understand and appreciate his condition” (A beautiful Mind). Several inaccurate characterizations of schizophrenia in this movie relates to the fact that this condition does not affect males only but also females are affected, and apart from the positive symptoms of schizophrenia that are highlighted, the patient may also exhibit negative symptoms. It is also not advisable to keep or incarcerate the affected individuals in the hospital since the condition can easily be managed at home with adequate contribution of the family members (A beautiful Mind).

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.

The movie, "A Beautiful Mind", John Nash, who is played by Russell Crowe, is a true story about a mathematician whose life is horrific because of his disease, schizophrenia. He was an egocentric man who studied Mathematics in Princeton University. During the whole time that he studied in Princeton, he was trying to come up with his own original idea. He felt that by only

Some people might have aggressive behavior, health problems or inability to attend work or school (Iranpour). Some of these symptoms are most affected by age or severity of the condition the person has. If the affected person is a teenager, then some of their symptoms might be withdrawal away from friends or family, depressed mood or a lack of motivation. If the affected person is an adult, then the symptoms might be self harm, depression or maybe even suicide if worse cases. Finally, when you compare teen symptoms to that of adults, you notice that teens have more visual hallucinations and adults will have more delusions. The things I stated above are only just a few examples of some of the symptoms most people have. Now, let me explain the people it might

One aspect depicted throughout the film are the various mannerisms of schizophrenia. Nash 's character often displays agitated movements which are sometimes jerky in motion. Many times this is shown with head movements, hand gestures and even agitated pacing. This coincides with the National Institute of Mental Health 's (2009) description of the mannerisms associated with schizophrenia. Individuals with diagnosed schizophrenia can display a flat affect, with no emotion and diminished facial expressions, as well as a catatonic stupor becoming non-responsive to any type of stimulus (National Institute