Jasmine Brown provided an overview of the film, A Beautiful Mind, and summarized the treatment in the paper. Chelsie Kennedy identified John Forbes Nash, Jr. as the character from the film with a psychological disorder, and determined the diagnosis of Schizophrenia Spectrum, as identified by the DSM-V (Psych Central). Chelsie also wrote the summary and created the Reference page with the citations.
John Forbes Nash, Jr. – “A Beautiful Mind”
A Beautiful Mind is a 2001, biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash. John Nash was a mathematical genius, whom won a Nobel Laureate in Economics. In college, John Nash admits to his roommate that he is better with numbers than with people. A harsh rejection from a woman at the bar is what …show more content…
Paranoid schizophrenia, also called schizophrenia, paranoid type, is a sub-type of schizophrenia. This is the most common type of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is defined as “a chronic mental disorder in which a person loses touch with reality (psychosis)." His schizophrenia is accompanied by delusional episodes. Treatment for paranoid schizophrenia includes: medications such as antipsychotics, antianxiety drugs, and antidepressants, psychological therapy such as support groups, vocational training, hospitalization, and electroconvulsive …show more content…
He graduated from Princeton, had a successful career that included being awarded the Nobel Prize, and had a wife and child. Based on what Nash said and did in the film, his schizophrenia was mainly paranoid because he was “seeing a person who is constantly telling him bad things to do.” He went back and forth on “believing the guy is real.” He knows he is “schizo” but he thinks that he can fix it just like he fixes a math problem because of his extraordinary success in math. He even mentions that an imaginary character was put in his brain. One of the first imaginary characters that he develops in his mind is Charles Herman, who he thinks is his roommate. He also thinks Paul Bettany is his roommate. Bettany is also a student at Princeton but he is majoring in English Literature and he does not know
John Forbes Nash, Jr. – “A Beautiful Mind”
A Beautiful Mind is a 2001, biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash. John Nash was a mathematical genius, whom won a Nobel Laureate in Economics. In college, John Nash admits to his roommate that he is better with numbers than with people. A harsh rejection from a woman at the bar is what …show more content…
Paranoid schizophrenia, also called schizophrenia, paranoid type, is a sub-type of schizophrenia. This is the most common type of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is defined as “a chronic mental disorder in which a person loses touch with reality (psychosis)." His schizophrenia is accompanied by delusional episodes. Treatment for paranoid schizophrenia includes: medications such as antipsychotics, antianxiety drugs, and antidepressants, psychological therapy such as support groups, vocational training, hospitalization, and electroconvulsive …show more content…
He graduated from Princeton, had a successful career that included being awarded the Nobel Prize, and had a wife and child. Based on what Nash said and did in the film, his schizophrenia was mainly paranoid because he was “seeing a person who is constantly telling him bad things to do.” He went back and forth on “believing the guy is real.” He knows he is “schizo” but he thinks that he can fix it just like he fixes a math problem because of his extraordinary success in math. He even mentions that an imaginary character was put in his brain. One of the first imaginary characters that he develops in his mind is Charles Herman, who he thinks is his roommate. He also thinks Paul Bettany is his roommate. Bettany is also a student at Princeton but he is majoring in English Literature and he does not know