A positive message portrayed by A Beautiful Mind about schizophrenia is that people can still manage to have a significant improvement in the quality of life and have a positive outcome. Rather than displaying schizophrenia as a debilitating illness that prohibits an individual from succeeding, the film displays a positive end to Nash’s journey, showing that while schizophrenia may not be totally curable, it is manageable if dealt with. Research indicates that remission means long-term wellness and states that those in remission from schizophrenia can have better individual functional outcomes and well-being (Yeomans et al., 2010). As Nash achieves remission, he returns to work efficiently and resumes a normal life. At the end of the film,
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Assaulting Doctor Rosen for believing he is a spy, and pushing his wife and child to the ground produces the stigma that schizophrenics are always aggressive. In the film, Nash almost accidentally drowns his infant in the bath as he believes his untrue friend Charles is watching the baby, and his hallucination Parcher tells Nash that he needs to kill his family. Corrigan and Watson state that the role of stigmatization means that they do not have the opportunities to have affiliations with different groups of people, good quality of life, or the same employment opportunities that people without mental illnesses have (2002). This message means that those with schizophrenia may result in fewer mentally ill people accessing treatment, and may not reach out to loved ones in the fear they may be cut-off due to the stigma that they are dangerous (Corrigan & Watson, …show more content…
As the movie was based back in 1950 when mental health professions used insulin coma therapy and antipsychotics with significant side effects, Nash’s psychiatrist Doctor Rosen appears careless about the physical wellbeing of Nash. Hopson states that fiction, film and popular culture portray the psychiatrist to be a villain, who are charlatans (2002). As the film is from Nash’s point of view, it is easy to see Rosen as a villain as he uses tranquiller and handcuffs to restrain Nash, as well as insulin coma therapy which can be distressing to watch. Those that are uneducated about new treatments may fear that mental health professionals may still be this way, and be reluctant to see a mental health professional in fear that they are non-sympathetic or may be forced to go under harmful treatment and procedures, as seen in the movie (Hopson,
Assaulting Doctor Rosen for believing he is a spy, and pushing his wife and child to the ground produces the stigma that schizophrenics are always aggressive. In the film, Nash almost accidentally drowns his infant in the bath as he believes his untrue friend Charles is watching the baby, and his hallucination Parcher tells Nash that he needs to kill his family. Corrigan and Watson state that the role of stigmatization means that they do not have the opportunities to have affiliations with different groups of people, good quality of life, or the same employment opportunities that people without mental illnesses have (2002). This message means that those with schizophrenia may result in fewer mentally ill people accessing treatment, and may not reach out to loved ones in the fear they may be cut-off due to the stigma that they are dangerous (Corrigan & Watson, …show more content…
As the movie was based back in 1950 when mental health professions used insulin coma therapy and antipsychotics with significant side effects, Nash’s psychiatrist Doctor Rosen appears careless about the physical wellbeing of Nash. Hopson states that fiction, film and popular culture portray the psychiatrist to be a villain, who are charlatans (2002). As the film is from Nash’s point of view, it is easy to see Rosen as a villain as he uses tranquiller and handcuffs to restrain Nash, as well as insulin coma therapy which can be distressing to watch. Those that are uneducated about new treatments may fear that mental health professionals may still be this way, and be reluctant to see a mental health professional in fear that they are non-sympathetic or may be forced to go under harmful treatment and procedures, as seen in the movie (Hopson,