John's Diagnosis Of Schizophrenia In The Film A Beautiful Mind

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The film A Beautiful Mind tells the real life story of John Forbes Nash Jr, a mathematician. The film begins with John Nash attending Princeton University as a graduate student for mathematics where he was able to develop fundamental equations in mathematics despite being socially awkward. Halfway through the movie, it is learned that John’s experiences and memories such as having a roommate at Princeton and being a Soviet code breaker for the U.S. government, were merely hallucinations in his mind. It is then discovered by a psychiatrist that John suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. A Beautiful Mind depicts how an individual is diagnosed with schizophrenia, the symptoms, the effects on the individual’s family, treatment, and how the individual is …show more content…
It can be diagnosed with blood tests, urine screen for drug metabolites, and CT scans (“Schizophrenia” 109). The most efficient way of diagnosing schizophrenia is the observation of an individual’s behavior in a period of time. In the film, John Nash’s diagnosis of schizophrenia, more specifically paranoid schizophrenia, happened when his paranoia took over his professional life and he is forced to be evaluated in a psychiatric hospital. It is there Dr. Rosen observes Nash and discovers that John has suffered for years from visual hallucinations by seeing Charles ‘his roommate at Princeton,’ Marcee ‘Charles’s niece,’ and William Parcher ‘supervisor for soviet threats at the U.S. Department of Defense.’ John also suffered from the delusion that he was helping Parcher by cracking ‘soviet threats to the United States’ through deciphering codes in newspapers and magazines which ultimately lead to his paranoia. Like many other psychiatrists, Dr. Rosen was able to observe John’s behavior, connect it with the known symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, and helped John to get proper
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