Schizophrenia & Paranoid Personality Disorder “a Beautiful Mind”
Running head: TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS FROM THE MOVIE “A BEAUTIFUL MIND”: SCHIZOPHRENIA AND PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
Two Psychological Disorders from the Movie “A Beautiful Mind”:
Schizophrenia and Paranoid Personality Disorder
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“A Beautiful Mind,” which is based on the novel by Sylvia Nasar, is the story about the mathematic genius called John Nash. He enters Princeton University in the 1940s to start his studies in the fields of calculus and mathematical theory. He is very much an outsider, who does not much hang out with his colleague mates but only with his kind and outgoing roommate called Charles and his little nephew. Later on, John turns out to be a teacher at M.I.T and meets one of his students called Alicia, who is very smart, lovely and performs an important role as John’s wife. They get married with blessings of their friends; however, their happiness does not last long because later on, John is diagnosed as psychological disorder called schizophrenia. After this symptom has been diagnosed, Alicia figures out that John’s old friend, Charles and his nephew, never existed but only in John’s imagination. Also she finds out him working as a national security in nowhere, which does not even exist as well. For, she makes a hard decision to send John to the mental hospital and this brings John, who still think everything happened so far is real, to disbelieve his wife. Even though, the story seems flowing to the tragic way, the real beauty of this movie starts after these previous events, because John realizes he really is suffering form schizophrenia by recognizing that Charles little nephew never changes although time passed by. John never gets rid of his imaginary friends, but tries to ignore them and overcome his symptoms. This was possible because he had his loving family next to him. Later on, he keeps moving forward as a mathematician and receives the Nobel Prize by his work. It is not
Two Psychological Disorders from the Movie “A Beautiful Mind”:
Schizophrenia and Paranoid Personality Disorder
Your Name
Your School Name, State (Country)
“A Beautiful Mind,” which is based on the novel by Sylvia Nasar, is the story about the mathematic genius called John Nash. He enters Princeton University in the 1940s to start his studies in the fields of calculus and mathematical theory. He is very much an outsider, who does not much hang out with his colleague mates but only with his kind and outgoing roommate called Charles and his little nephew. Later on, John turns out to be a teacher at M.I.T and meets one of his students called Alicia, who is very smart, lovely and performs an important role as John’s wife. They get married with blessings of their friends; however, their happiness does not last long because later on, John is diagnosed as psychological disorder called schizophrenia. After this symptom has been diagnosed, Alicia figures out that John’s old friend, Charles and his nephew, never existed but only in John’s imagination. Also she finds out him working as a national security in nowhere, which does not even exist as well. For, she makes a hard decision to send John to the mental hospital and this brings John, who still think everything happened so far is real, to disbelieve his wife. Even though, the story seems flowing to the tragic way, the real beauty of this movie starts after these previous events, because John realizes he really is suffering form schizophrenia by recognizing that Charles little nephew never changes although time passed by. John never gets rid of his imaginary friends, but tries to ignore them and overcome his symptoms. This was possible because he had his loving family next to him. Later on, he keeps moving forward as a mathematician and receives the Nobel Prize by his work. It is not
References: American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 2000. I found out some ideas/theories that I’ve discovered through this class are relevant to my life. Among those, I will describe two of them. One of the idea/theory is about the infancy and childhood. This is relevant to me because, when I grow old and become the age of having a child, the contents that I learned in the class about infants and children will provide me a lot of information. For example, when my kid is at the age of 2, I would understand whether they act selfish or not (egocentrism); because all kids have the stages they go through. Therefore, by using my knowledge of this idea, I would not make any mistakes on my child such as scolding them being selfish. The other idea/theory is about psychological disorder part. I think of this as relevant because by knowing all the symptoms of disorders, I may be prepared for the worst when I fall into some kinds of mood disorder. For example, when I fall into a mental depression, I might find myself falling into it and figure out whether go see a doctor does not help me get better from depression. Here, I will follow the idea/theory of what I learned during the class, which is depression mostly disappears after 3~6months. In this way, it will prevent me from panicking what I should do to solve the problem.