Pingxuan Cao
Instructor: Rebecca Levy
ENWR 1510-005
21 October 2016
Family Support vs. Psychiatric Care
Under the widespread influence of fraudulent advertisements and deceptive suggestions from specialists permeated in society, many people incorrectly attribute the recovery of many geniuses from madness to professional psychiatric care while overlooking the silent support they receive from their family members, which counts for the happiness and physical well-being of those gifted people. If we do not solve this misconception, it will leave the public with a bias forever and cost geniuses and their families an enormous amount of money seeking for seemingly better medicine heavily propagandized by media for financial purposes. The movie A Beautiful …show more content…
In John’s final speech, he says to Alicia that “I 'm only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons” (A Beautiful Mind). He goes on to say that it is Alicia who leads to the “most important discovery of [his] career, the most important discovery of [his] life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found” (A Beautiful Mind). Without Alicia, it would be impossible for John to win the Nobel Prize. John expresses his great gratitude for his wife who serves as a silent support behind him. John’s mental condition also improves under Alicia’s care. When one of his hallucinated characters, Parcher, asks John “Who’s to say that we are not real?” John says “I am. You are the one who is not real” (A Beautiful Mind). John’s reactions illustrate that he is now able to tell the difference between reality and illusion. When Alicia worries about his hallucinations, John says “I’ve gotten used to ignoring them. And I think, as a result, they’ve kind of given up on me”(A Beautiful Mind). It is Alicia who helps John to take the initiative to disregard people living in his imaginary world and to live his life without their presence by worrying about his situation and giving him consolation. His mental ability already recovers to the extent of being able to make the right choice to focus his attention solely on what exists. The strong support from Alicia allows the genius to devote his …show more content…
When Claire says “he should have been in a full-time professional care situation,” Catherine disagrees by saying that “he didn’t belong in the nuthouse. He needed to be here. In his own house, near the University, near his students, near everything that made him happy”(Proof I.iv.55, 56-59). The word “nuthouse” indicates Catherine’s contempt and satirical attitude against professional institutions that keep people with mental illness isolated from the community. It is warm family care that counts for the recovery of her father instead of professional care offered in an unknown and cold hospital. From Catherine’s point of view, her father does not have a sense of belonging in an unfamiliar place, which will worsen his mental illness. When Claire doubts Catherine’s claim, Catherine rebuts her sister, saying “What about his remission? Four years ago. He was healthy for almost a year”(Proof I.iv.60). Using an example of a past recovery in an attempt to devalue professional care indicated by Claire, Catherine is eager to prove that their father indeed gets better by living in the familiar house and being accompanied by her. While Claire has enough money to send Robert into a place that can offer him professional care and a medical living facility, Catherine makes her determination to select the more challenging route, offering her
Instructor: Rebecca Levy
ENWR 1510-005
21 October 2016
Family Support vs. Psychiatric Care
Under the widespread influence of fraudulent advertisements and deceptive suggestions from specialists permeated in society, many people incorrectly attribute the recovery of many geniuses from madness to professional psychiatric care while overlooking the silent support they receive from their family members, which counts for the happiness and physical well-being of those gifted people. If we do not solve this misconception, it will leave the public with a bias forever and cost geniuses and their families an enormous amount of money seeking for seemingly better medicine heavily propagandized by media for financial purposes. The movie A Beautiful …show more content…
In John’s final speech, he says to Alicia that “I 'm only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons” (A Beautiful Mind). He goes on to say that it is Alicia who leads to the “most important discovery of [his] career, the most important discovery of [his] life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found” (A Beautiful Mind). Without Alicia, it would be impossible for John to win the Nobel Prize. John expresses his great gratitude for his wife who serves as a silent support behind him. John’s mental condition also improves under Alicia’s care. When one of his hallucinated characters, Parcher, asks John “Who’s to say that we are not real?” John says “I am. You are the one who is not real” (A Beautiful Mind). John’s reactions illustrate that he is now able to tell the difference between reality and illusion. When Alicia worries about his hallucinations, John says “I’ve gotten used to ignoring them. And I think, as a result, they’ve kind of given up on me”(A Beautiful Mind). It is Alicia who helps John to take the initiative to disregard people living in his imaginary world and to live his life without their presence by worrying about his situation and giving him consolation. His mental ability already recovers to the extent of being able to make the right choice to focus his attention solely on what exists. The strong support from Alicia allows the genius to devote his …show more content…
When Claire says “he should have been in a full-time professional care situation,” Catherine disagrees by saying that “he didn’t belong in the nuthouse. He needed to be here. In his own house, near the University, near his students, near everything that made him happy”(Proof I.iv.55, 56-59). The word “nuthouse” indicates Catherine’s contempt and satirical attitude against professional institutions that keep people with mental illness isolated from the community. It is warm family care that counts for the recovery of her father instead of professional care offered in an unknown and cold hospital. From Catherine’s point of view, her father does not have a sense of belonging in an unfamiliar place, which will worsen his mental illness. When Claire doubts Catherine’s claim, Catherine rebuts her sister, saying “What about his remission? Four years ago. He was healthy for almost a year”(Proof I.iv.60). Using an example of a past recovery in an attempt to devalue professional care indicated by Claire, Catherine is eager to prove that their father indeed gets better by living in the familiar house and being accompanied by her. While Claire has enough money to send Robert into a place that can offer him professional care and a medical living facility, Catherine makes her determination to select the more challenging route, offering her