A Beautiful Mind Movie Review: A Beautiful Mind

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A Beautiful Mind is a movie that follows a young man named John Nash throughout his life from the time he enrolls in Princeton University until he receives the Noble Prize. Nash is determined to come up with his own original idea for his thesis which he does after a harsh rejection from a woman at a bar and inspires an idea. This allows Nash to write his paper then later leads to him teaching at MIT. Slowly and slowly throughout the movie, you can see Nash’s paranoia and mental instability arise. Nash is later diagnosed with Schizophrenia and must work through it to manage his work and take care of his wife and child.
Canadian Model of Occupational Performance The Canadian Model of Occupational Performance, or CMOP, focuses on three main
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The CMOP would state that Nash’s major issues come from his spirituality, not knowing what is real and what isn’t and not being able to make logical sense of his disorder. However, the PEOP would state the major issues come from components within his person and the environment around him. Nash began to suffer greatly when his cognitive, physiological, psychosocial, neurobehavioral, emotional, and spiritual factors became negatively impacted by his disorder. This in turn affected his interaction with the environment around him because he could no longer interact with his peers without his hallucinations appearing which caused him to stop going to work and school. Both models attempt to view a person holistically but focus on certain aspects of a person that may cause more harm if not treated or properly taken care of. Environmental factors seem to play a bigger role when viewing Nash’s situation from the PEOP while personal factors are more focuses on in the CMOP model. The CMOP model does a great job at defining the internal problem of an induvial and how it can affect their choices and life as whole. However, the PEOP does an excellent job in explaining those internal factors and how they can be affected by other external factors as

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