Movie Review—a Beautiful Mind
Synopsis
A Beautiful Mind is a biopic of the famed mathematician John Nash and his lifelong struggles with his mental health. Nash was a graduate student at Princeton in 1948. He is not a social person and his roommate Charles seems was his only close friend. John is soon a professor at MIT where he meets and eventually married a graduate student, Alicia.
John begins to lose his grip on reality overtime and eventually being institutionalized diagnosed with schizophrenia. He thought he was working for the government on a top secret project. It turns out that was all his delusion. He took a series of treatment and get better so he got out of the hospital. But as he stopped taking the medication the delusion came back again and he gets even worse. His wife Alicia did not give him up. She did not sign to send him back to hospital again. Alicia keeps John company and gives him the best support—love.
In the 1970s, John makes his first foray back into the world of academics. He gradually returning to research and teaching after he tried to ignoring the characters in his mind. In 1994, John Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. John’s delusion still exists but he eventually learned to deal with it.
Diagnosis
As it mentioned before, John was diagnosed with schizophrenia. John Nash displays all positive symptoms, negative symptoms and psychomotor symptoms.
For positive symptoms, John has delusions of persecution. He thinks the strangers were the spy of Russian. He even thinks his attending doctor Dr. Rosen is a Russian spy. He also has disorganized speech. He cannot give a good speech about his theory on Harvard University National Mathematics Conference. John also shows the heightened perceptions and hallucinations. He cannot bear noise when he was teaching. He has hallucinations about Charles and his niece, William Parcher. He also lost control of his emotion when playing the game of go with others that is a display of inappropriate affect.
For negative
A Beautiful Mind is a biopic of the famed mathematician John Nash and his lifelong struggles with his mental health. Nash was a graduate student at Princeton in 1948. He is not a social person and his roommate Charles seems was his only close friend. John is soon a professor at MIT where he meets and eventually married a graduate student, Alicia.
John begins to lose his grip on reality overtime and eventually being institutionalized diagnosed with schizophrenia. He thought he was working for the government on a top secret project. It turns out that was all his delusion. He took a series of treatment and get better so he got out of the hospital. But as he stopped taking the medication the delusion came back again and he gets even worse. His wife Alicia did not give him up. She did not sign to send him back to hospital again. Alicia keeps John company and gives him the best support—love.
In the 1970s, John makes his first foray back into the world of academics. He gradually returning to research and teaching after he tried to ignoring the characters in his mind. In 1994, John Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. John’s delusion still exists but he eventually learned to deal with it.
Diagnosis
As it mentioned before, John was diagnosed with schizophrenia. John Nash displays all positive symptoms, negative symptoms and psychomotor symptoms.
For positive symptoms, John has delusions of persecution. He thinks the strangers were the spy of Russian. He even thinks his attending doctor Dr. Rosen is a Russian spy. He also has disorganized speech. He cannot give a good speech about his theory on Harvard University National Mathematics Conference. John also shows the heightened perceptions and hallucinations. He cannot bear noise when he was teaching. He has hallucinations about Charles and his niece, William Parcher. He also lost control of his emotion when playing the game of go with others that is a display of inappropriate affect.
For negative