Brief Summary Of The Film 'A Beautiful Mind'

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A beautiful mind is set in the late 1940’s, a movie based on a true story of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, Directed by Ron Howard in 2002. This story emphasizes Nash 's graduate years at Princeton University where he starts to develop a mental disorder. Later doctors diagnose Nash with paranoid schizophrenia which causes Nash to start hallucinating. Nash struggles through his life and with the help of friends and especially his wife is able to recover.
A beautiful mind is about a graduate student that attends Princeton University with the Carnegie Prize for mathematics. Although he was not expecting to have a roommate, Charles comes in as his roommate and soon becomes his close friend. Nash is man that does not like to interact
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Overall, Nash earns a privilege of teaching again and was honored to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his revolutionary work on game theory.
If I was to help Nash, I would certainly help being a therapist or a doctor. I think in order to help and really understand any type of disorder you would have to study a lot and have the knowledge to correctly assist a person with any type of disorder. If I was Nash’s friend I would not had the knowledge to help him, but I would try to find ways for example, finding the correct doctor or facility that helps with his mental disorders, encourage him to seek for help and most important try to understand his illness.
I think that cognitive therapy method would best to help with schizophrenia because it uses a combination of techniques from different therapies based on therapist judgment. Biological therapy and a combination of antipsychotic drugs are also helpful by diminishing agitated behavior, decreasing hallucinations and improving social behavior. Also, cognitive-behavior therapy might help which this therapies help reduce self-defeating thoughts and helps change behavior. Therapists will talk with patients in order to help them identify automatic thoughts and feelings they

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