Preview

a beautiful mind

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
477 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
a beautiful mind
Vantrice Quates
Psy 200
M&W 8a.m.-9:15a.m.
Sept 09, 2014 Movie Review

1. What symptoms of Schizophrenia did John Nash exhibit at the beginning of the movie? In the beginning of the movie the symptoms John Nash exhibit were hallucinations and delusions.
2. What symptoms did he exhibit at the end of the movie? At the end of the movie the symptoms John Nash exhibit were hallucinations, delusions, paranoid ideations, and a distorted perception of reality.
3. When did John Nash actually realize that his hallucinations were not real? When he realized that Marcee, the imaginary niece of his imaginary roommate never get any older.
4. How did his wife play an important role in dealing with his Schizophrenia? She made decisions about his treatment for Schizophrenia. The side effect from the pills he was taking caused his sexual performance to go down, Even though his wife got very frustrated she still stay by his side.
5. Could schizophrenia be the cause for a divorce? Why? Explain your answer. No, because first and furthermore, the vows say “To death do us part, and through sickness and health, therefore I feel if you really love your significant other you should be there no matter the circumstances.
6. Is John Nash still alive today? If so, where are he and what is his state of mind? Yes, John Nash is still alive and he resides in Princeton Junction, and he is in remission.
7. What occurred in his childhood that may have triggered Schizophrenia? There is nothing that occurred in Nash childhood that triggered schizophrenia. He lived a normal childhood and was recognized for his intelligence at a young age by his parents.
8. What was your favorite scene? Explain why. My favorite scene of the movie was when he won the Nobel Prize. Because it shows how a person can achieve great awards regardless of his or her illness.
9. What were the names of his hallucinations? Visual and Auditory.
10. What are the symptoms of a

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    A Beautiful Mind

    • 348 Words
    • 2 Pages

    4.) What are five (5) possible causes of schizophrenia? Based on what you see from the film, which do you think was most likely the cause of John Nash developing the disorder?…

    • 348 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    He is very controlling and expects his wife to obey his orders which was quite normal for the time. He is a doctor but only understands physical illnesses. He cannot relate to any mental problems particularly as far as women are concerned. For him, it is something she will get over, mind over matter:…

    • 385 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    One scene that will remain in my mind forever and the best example of the negative symptoms of Schizophrenia is a scene where John Nash is shown holding his infant son while the baby is crying and Nash shows absolutely no sign of emotion at all. This is just one example, although a loss of feeling is one of the most predominate negative symptoms. Nash's flat affect is seen through out the film in many instances but that scene that shows him holding the baby shows…

    • 924 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    In the movie, "A Beautiful Mind", John Nash displays classic positive symptoms of a schizophrenic. This movie does a fair job in portraying the personality and daily suffering of someone who is affected by the disease, although the film does not give a completely historically accurate account. In the film, John Nash would fall into the category of a paranoid schizophrenic, portraying all the symptoms that are typical for this illness. Nash suffers delusions of persecution, believing that there is a government conspiracy against him. He believes that because he is supposedly a secret agent working for the government breaking Soviet codes, and that the KGB was out to get him. In addition to these delusions, Nash experiences hallucinations which are shown from the moment that he starts college at Princeton University. He hallucinates that he has a roommate, when in reality it is uncovered later in the film that he was in a single occupancy room his entire stay at Princeton. Additionally, he frequently has conversations and takes advice from this imaginary roommate. He also imagines a little girl that is introduced to him by his alleged roommate. While going about his daily life, he is constantly surrounded by these inventions. These are classic positive symptoms of the paranoid schizophrenic, which are heavily supported by DSM-IV. Psychological predictions also agree with the behavior John Nash exhibited in the movie. This movie accurately teaches the public the positive affects of a schizophrenic. The movie does not portray schizophrenia as a split of Nash's personalities, rather a split from reality. He imagines other people and hallucinates vividly throughout the movie. Even at the conclusion of the movie, John Nash learns to accept and cope with his psychological disorder. He learns to ignore his hallucinations and is very careful about whom he interacts with. At…

    • 1312 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Nash could have had paranoid schizophrenia for years but no one noticed it. It is evident that delusions occur in the mind of a schizophrenic. Perhaps the first indication of Nash's delusions was when he was observing a glass in the courtyard and noticed a spectrum of light stream out of it. The colours in the light streamed out onto his friend's tie, and he imagined the tie with an assortment of shapes on it, which didn't exist in reality. "That is an awful tie," Nash remarked. Nash first started his delusions when he imagined Charles, his imaginary roommate. He would talk and carry on conversations with this man, and even his wife thought he really existed until with further research, I proved otherwise.…

    • 1147 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The DSM/Medical Model could have been more helpful in the present day if a good psychiatrist and a social worker put the needs of John Nash as a human being first instead of dealing with him as just a number as patients were treated in the Trenton Hospital. The social aspect was absent in the treatment that was followed by the hospitals he was committed to. Nash was able to get support from his family, friends and wife, who I think, along with him as well, were great factors in his overcoming this illness. Nowadays, the social context is considered more in the treatment in the DSM Model and a good psychiatrist would have taken that into his consideration.…

    • 482 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Mental illnesses prohibit many individuals from accomplishing their goals. They are seen as unstable or incapable. Illnesses like depression and schizophrenia impair judgment and reduce self worth. Shakespeare's "Hamlet" shows the lead character, Hamlet, suffer after the loss of his father, becoming excessively moody and suicidal. Sylvia Nasar's book A Beautiful Mind, gives a look into the great mathematician, John Nash's spiral into schizophrenia almost ruining his work. Both characters must overcome their illness to achieve their grand goals.…

    • 541 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The film “A Beautiful Mind” (Grazer, 2001) tells of the true life of John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner who has struggled the majority of his life with paranoid schizophrenia. This essay will evaluate John Nash’s exhibited behaviors, and how therapists from the 5 perspectives of abnormal psychology would have treated his illness.…

    • 1443 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Positive symptoms are hallucination, speech disorganized, delusion, inappropriate laughter, and tears. For example a positive symptom can be described when the person is told a sad tale; he will show reactions such smile or laughter while related to the story. Patient with negative symptoms are usually quiet, expressions faces, toneless voices and rigid body posture. Positive behaviors are more seeing that governed the person. The negative are the absences of appropriate behaviors (First M.B., Tasman, A.2006, pp.245, 249). John Nash experienced remissions or at least diminishment in which are called to be the positive or active symptoms of schizophrenia. An example of these positive symptoms are presented in the film, one of those scene is when he goes outside to throw the trash and he is able to social with the garbage man, his wife Alicia gets a little bit worried but when she realized that he is telling the truth, she feels relieve that he is coming to a remission process. Furthermore social withdrawal, flat affects and lack of motivations are the negative symptoms. In the scene when John feels he can’t function, with his work, with the care of his son and couldn’t response to his…

    • 392 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    A Beautiful Mind

    • 421 Words
    • 2 Pages

    2. Delusions/ hallucinations that Nash was experiencing is one, when he was at the bar also when he was driving (shooting scene). When he was delivering spy mail, argument with poter, seeing roommate in the office, being a spy, seeing a spy cabin in his own backyard, them branding the number in his arm and them changed every day, the roommate and his niece were also delusions. That Nash was experiencing he never knew what was real or fake to him. It was like everything was a big dream.…

    • 421 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    This film contributes to the public understanding of schizophrenia. It shatters some stereotypes of sufferers such as their being dangerous and unable to function in the world and emphasizes the importance of treatment and social support. But viewers should not be encouraged into thinking that Nash's encounter with schizophrenia is the norm. Unfortunately, all too many people who deal with this illness do so with few of the resources Nash had at his disposal. Perhaps some time in the future, our attitude toward treatment of the mentally ill will progress so that Nash's situation will be the norm and not the rarity. Unless you are familiar with John Nash's story, you probably won't guess he's schizophrenic until later into the movie. He's eccentric, abrupt, and highly intelligent, but doesn't seem crazy. His delusions are as real as reality to Nash, and likewise, they are real to the audience, who cannot tell…

    • 792 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Schizophrenia is a rare disease and there are very few well known cases of someone suffering from schizophrenia. A famous or well known person that suffers from this uncommon disease is John Nash, known for the movie about his life, A Beautiful Mind. He was a Nobel Prize winning mathematician that currently teaches at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Abraham Lincoln’s wife, Syd Barret of Pink Floyd, Lionel Aldridge a superbowl-winning athlete, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Albert Einstein’s son are a few more people that also suffer from schizophrenia. Originally, researchers believed that schizophrenia came from “being raised by an erratic, cold, rejecting mother or from living in an unpredictable environment . . .” (Carole Wade, 2002) Now it is believed that this disorder comes from a genetic problem that affect your brain and is often developed at birth or during a child’s adolescence.…

    • 1571 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    In the year 2001 the movie A Beautiful Mind was released as a biography of the life of John Nash. As the movie flows, we can easily see how his condition, schizophrenia, interferes with his personal life as well as with his home life and social life. The movie does a good job in describing Nash’s experiences and some of the help that put him back on his feet, and that motivated him to stay strong.…

    • 1469 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    There is no known cause of schizophrenia, many diseases result from interplay of genetic, behavioral, and other factors. So this could be the cause of Schizophrenia but it is not yet known. It has long been known that schizophrenia runs in families. People who have a close relative with schizophrenia are more likely to develop the disorder than are people who have no relatives with the illness. It is thought that malnutrition during pregnancy and complications at the time of birth and other events may cause offspring to be more vulnerable. Early psychological trauma, such as those caused by violence, abuse, neglect, separation, death, etc. can also add to the risk. Since…

    • 781 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Schizophrenia

    • 11503 Words
    • 38 Pages

    Schizophrenia is a complex and puzzling illness. Even the experts in the field are not exactly sure what causes it. Doctors think that the brain may not be able to process information correctly. Some experts said that the genetic, psychological and social and person’s environment factors may trigger schizophrenia.…

    • 11503 Words
    • 38 Pages
    Good Essays