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    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

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    A Beautiful Mind The movie “A Beautiful Mind” directed by Ron Howard is based on the real story of mathematician John F. Nash Jr.‚ played by Russell Crow. John Nash was a gifted young man from West Virginia that‚ while studying in Princeton‚ created his “game theory” also knows as “Nash equilibrium”‚ which was the break through in modern economics‚ and for which he got the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics later on in his life. Also except his extraordinary mind John Nash had a psychological

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    After watching the movie A Beautiful Mind with Russell Crowe as John Nash‚ my views on mental illness have greatly changed. I have learned a good deal about mental illness after watching this movie. When I think of someone with a mental illness I usually think of some guy in a mental institution in a straight jacket. This movie showed me that mentally ill people can still lead very productive and happy lives. This story demonstrate the strength of the human spirit because although the character

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    A Beautiful Mind (Total Points for assignment = 40) For this assignment‚ you will watch the movie A Beautiful Mind. Your textbook has a brief summary of the movie and compares the movie to what is known about John Nash’s life. I have also provided you with supplemental information on Schizophrenia in the powerpoint that is attached to this assignment. Using this checklist‚ provide evidence of the criteria with examples of Nash’s behavior. For example‚ under Dysfunction‚ give me examples

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    The Beautiful Mind Director: Ron Howard Writer: Akiva Goldsman‚ Sylvia Nasar(author) Cast: Russell Crowe‚ Jennifer Connelly‚ Ed Harris‚ Paul Bettany… In ’’A Beautiful Mind‚’’ her biography of the mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr.‚ Sylvia Nasar quotes one of his colleagues: ’’All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms- an ice palace. But they also live in the common world where things are transient‚ ambiguous‚ subject to vicissitudes

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    The movie‚ A Beautiful Mind follows a brilliant mathematician‚ John Nash’s progression of his physchiatric condition schizophrenia. John‘s symptoms first started to appear during his time as a graduate student of Princeton as he struggled with intense stress while trying to formulate an orginal idea for publishing. After accepting a position with MIT‚ John’s delusions and hallucinations become progressinly worse over time‚ and he believed to have been recreuited by the Department of Defense to break

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    A Beautiful Mind: Paranoid Schizophrenia “A Beautiful Mind” is a movie that was based off a true story of the Nobel Prize winner John Nash‚ who suffered with schizophrenia upon entering Princeton University. Schizophrenia is not a personality disorder‚ but the splitting of the mind‚ which can cause people to hear voices‚ but will not change into multiple personalities. Nash’s symptoms went unnoticed during his college career‚ which promoted the disease to worsen over time because of the lack of

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    A Beautiful MindMovie questions 1. John Nash personality traits * Blunt * Rude * Silent * Doesn’t show affection * Award Social skills * No “real” friends * Helpless * Paranoid * Agitated * Refuses sexual pleasure Physical movements * Keeps his head down * Arms closed * Always touching his forehead Communication skills * speaks genital * mumbles / studders * speaks in a low tone Thought processes

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    The film “A Beautiful Mind” effectively portrays the life of a person living with schizophrenia and offers viewers several comments on the effects of mental illness without limiting the scope to simply this aspect. Being a genius does not preclude the possibility that someone has a mental illness such as schizophrenia‚ and such is the case in the character of John Nash‚ the mathematician and Nobel Prize winner portrayed in the movie‚ partially about abnormal psychology‚ “A Beautiful Mind.” John Nash

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    logical ways (Cicarelli‚ p. 557). Individuals with schizophrenia may also experience hallucinations‚ in which they hear voices or see things or people who are not really there. Hearing voices and emotional disturbances are key symptoms in making a diagnosis of schizophrenia. An emotional disturbance known as flat effect is a condition in which the person shows little or no emotion. For example‚ emotions can be excessive and/or inappropriate - a person might laugh when it would be more appropriate to

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