Diagnosis
In the movie, A Beautiful Mind (Grazer & Howard, 2001), John Nash is a thirty-one-year-old Caucasian male mathematician who works at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an instructor. John is married to his wife, Alicia Larde, who is currently pregnant. Recently John has been having instances of delusions and hallucinations that are severely impacting his relationships and lifestyle. Upon first meeting the client, John is a well-dressed man who wears a suit, because he teaches during the day. He is oriented to person, place, and time, but verbally expresses his displeasure at being at this appointment and states many times he is here against his will. Based on John’s etiology and current symptoms he displays he is diagnosed with …show more content…
Focusing on teaching appropriate social skills and responses allow John to remember his training in therapy when he faces situations where he felt the symptoms taking over. (Brown, et al., 2016). After receiving shock therapy, John is able to return home and attempts to ignore, or silence, the hallucinations. While he does show minor relapses, John states about his progress, “then gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation” (Nash, J. F., Jr.). John discontinues taking his medication against his psychiatrist’s wishes and his wife stays to help support him during this time. Over time, John is able to live a relatively normal life as he actively chooses to ignore his hallucinations. In 1994, John wins the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his groundbreaking work in mathematics (Nash, J. F., Jr.). John does not fully recover from his disorder, as that is not usually projected for Schizophrenia. In most cases, the prognosis of Schizophrenia depicts the prodromal phase prior to twenty years of age and rapid deterioration in the early twenties to thirties. This tapers off into a chronic/residual phase during the forties and fifties, which is seen to be true in John’s case as well. The older John gets the less severe and more subdued his symptoms appear to be to those close to
In the movie, A Beautiful Mind (Grazer & Howard, 2001), John Nash is a thirty-one-year-old Caucasian male mathematician who works at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an instructor. John is married to his wife, Alicia Larde, who is currently pregnant. Recently John has been having instances of delusions and hallucinations that are severely impacting his relationships and lifestyle. Upon first meeting the client, John is a well-dressed man who wears a suit, because he teaches during the day. He is oriented to person, place, and time, but verbally expresses his displeasure at being at this appointment and states many times he is here against his will. Based on John’s etiology and current symptoms he displays he is diagnosed with …show more content…
Focusing on teaching appropriate social skills and responses allow John to remember his training in therapy when he faces situations where he felt the symptoms taking over. (Brown, et al., 2016). After receiving shock therapy, John is able to return home and attempts to ignore, or silence, the hallucinations. While he does show minor relapses, John states about his progress, “then gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation” (Nash, J. F., Jr.). John discontinues taking his medication against his psychiatrist’s wishes and his wife stays to help support him during this time. Over time, John is able to live a relatively normal life as he actively chooses to ignore his hallucinations. In 1994, John wins the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his groundbreaking work in mathematics (Nash, J. F., Jr.). John does not fully recover from his disorder, as that is not usually projected for Schizophrenia. In most cases, the prognosis of Schizophrenia depicts the prodromal phase prior to twenty years of age and rapid deterioration in the early twenties to thirties. This tapers off into a chronic/residual phase during the forties and fifties, which is seen to be true in John’s case as well. The older John gets the less severe and more subdued his symptoms appear to be to those close to