Assignment 8 Part A
Tyan Keller
AC1300313
C04.V.9.1 Introduction to Psychology
Assignment 8 Part A
November 10, 2014 A Beautiful Mind
I choose the movie, A Beautiful Mind, produced by Ron Howard. The movie is about the life of John Forbes Nash Jr., a brilliant mathematician who is entirely focused on his work. However, Mr. Nash, unknowingly, struggles with a mental illness known as paranoid schizophrenia.
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia is; (1) Delusions (2) hallucinations (3) disorganized speech (4) grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior (5) negative symptoms. In the movie, Mr. Nash displayed all the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenic.
John Nash suffered from delusions of persecution. He believed a tattoo of numbers was imprinted on his forearm so he could be a secret agent working for the government, breaking Soviet Union codes, and that a secret communists organization was out to do him harm. Nash also suffered from visual and auditory hallucinations. He hallucinates he has a roommate while attending college with whom he often has conversations and takes advice from. He also imagines there is a small girl with the roommate, as well as other people, through-out the movie. These false thoughts are completely separated from reality but very vivid in his
Nash was eventually committed to a psychiatric hospital, where he was given insulin shock therapy, five times a week for ten weeks. Upon his release he was given anti-psychotic medication, which after a time Nash stopped taking. It was after this time he realized the little girl, in his mind, was not getting older so could not possibly be real. This was a turning point for
Nash. Rather than be committed again, he choose to ignore the appearance of the people that were only in his mind. Mr. Nash still suffers from hallucinations and periodically has to check with someone if new people he meets are real, but ultimately he
AC1300313
C04.V.9.1 Introduction to Psychology
Assignment 8 Part A
November 10, 2014 A Beautiful Mind
I choose the movie, A Beautiful Mind, produced by Ron Howard. The movie is about the life of John Forbes Nash Jr., a brilliant mathematician who is entirely focused on his work. However, Mr. Nash, unknowingly, struggles with a mental illness known as paranoid schizophrenia.
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia is; (1) Delusions (2) hallucinations (3) disorganized speech (4) grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior (5) negative symptoms. In the movie, Mr. Nash displayed all the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenic.
John Nash suffered from delusions of persecution. He believed a tattoo of numbers was imprinted on his forearm so he could be a secret agent working for the government, breaking Soviet Union codes, and that a secret communists organization was out to do him harm. Nash also suffered from visual and auditory hallucinations. He hallucinates he has a roommate while attending college with whom he often has conversations and takes advice from. He also imagines there is a small girl with the roommate, as well as other people, through-out the movie. These false thoughts are completely separated from reality but very vivid in his
Nash was eventually committed to a psychiatric hospital, where he was given insulin shock therapy, five times a week for ten weeks. Upon his release he was given anti-psychotic medication, which after a time Nash stopped taking. It was after this time he realized the little girl, in his mind, was not getting older so could not possibly be real. This was a turning point for
Nash. Rather than be committed again, he choose to ignore the appearance of the people that were only in his mind. Mr. Nash still suffers from hallucinations and periodically has to check with someone if new people he meets are real, but ultimately he