Character Description John Nash, played by Russell Crowe, is the main character in the Oscar winning film, A Beautiful Mind (A Beautiful Mind, 2001). The movie begins with John Nash attending graduate school at Princeton University. He was known as a mathematical genius, but had an array of odd personality traits. John was very awkward and antisocial. There were moments in the film …show more content…
“Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally” (Schizophrenia, 2014). Schizophrenia can be misinterpreted as being a multiple personality disorder, but in reality it actually translates to “split brains” rather than “split minds” (Weiten, 2011, p. 484). There are many forms of schizophrenia including paranoid, catatonic, disorganized, and undifferentiated. Paranoid schizophrenia encompasses delusions of persecution; catatonic schizophrenia can involve moments of motor disturbances or random motor activity; disorganized schizophrenia includes a severe deterioration of behavior, and the undifferentiated type includes aspects of two or more of the various types of schizophrenia (Weiten, 2011, p.