A BEAUTIFUL MIND The film "A Beautiful Mind" portrays the story of the splendid mathematician John

IntroductionBy examining the basic content sketch of the movie, A Beautiful Mind, and actual events that occurred in John Nash's life, many ethical concerns will be addressed. Movies like A Beautiful Mind create and amplify many ethical concerns relating to the portrayal of mental illnesses and how society views them. The identity of the ethical concerns exposed in a popular media event, the ethical dilemmas presented and an ethical theory that is used to address public concerns when a major form of entertainment is used to misinform and the values exposed in an art form using distortion for entertainment are all ethical concerns that occur within this film, and through other entertainments. The concern lies in the social responsibility

Running head: TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS FROM THE MOVIE “A BEAUTIFUL MIND”: SCHIZOPHRENIA AND PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER

People in this world have many different struggles. Some deal with chronic pain, others with poverty and some even with the consequences of their bad choices. Numerous individuals also struggle with mental illness also known as various disorders that affect mood, personality, cognition and other areas of functioning. Mental illness is unique to the individual and can be experienced in a variety of ways. Three people that have experienced mental illness and all that it entails are Susanna Kaysen the author of the memoir Girl, Interrupted, John Nash-a mathematician whose life was the basis of the film A Beautiful Mind and a woman named Theresa Lozowski who is a medical professional. All three struggle with a mental illness and

is a biographical film that chronicles the life of John Nash from early adulthood through mature adulthood. The film is broken into the standard three act film structure. The first act, exposition, establishes Nash as the main character and seeks to inform the audience of brilliance. The second act, rising action, reveals Nash?s schizophrenia and explores his experience as a schizophrenic in contrast to his life as a mathematician. The last act, resolution, chronicles Nash's return from the depths of his disease culminating in the presentation of the Nobel Prize for Economics. The film does not stray from standard structure. However, its brilliance lies in how the story transitions from Nash?s point of view in the first act to Mrs. Nash?s point of view in the second act. This technique serves to highlight the normalcy experienced by the schizophrenic contrasted with the reality experienced by the supporting

The setting is New Jersey during the Cold War. John Nash is a mathematical prodigy as a child. While other kids his age are playing games and having fun he is doing math equations that most professors can’t even solve. At Princeton University, John is discouraged by the other prodigies he encounters. Though he was discouraged, he ends up writing a doctoral thesis which later won him the nobel prize.Later on John falls in love with a graduate student he had a M.I.T.. With his new wife Alicia Larde, he has his son, John Charles Nash. While everything seems great, the Nash’s world is about to take a turn for the worst. John is diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Two decades that Nash should have been devoting to math research, he now has to devote to

This film is the depiction of the true story of John Nash (Played by Russell Crowe), one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. His claim to fame is from both his theoretic discoveries in math, and for the fact that he suffered from schizophrenia. This Ron Howard film tells the tale of Nash's life journey from the moment he steps foot on the campus of Princeton University as a young, awkward math student from West Virginia obsessed with creating an original idea, until his life as an older man overcoming the obstacles he faced in life, as well as being acknowledge for his genius work with a Noble Prize.

In the movie, A Beautiful Mind, the main character John Nash, a genius mathematician, struggles with the constant pressure he puts upon himself in regards to creating an original idea. This intense stress and anxiety eventually develops into paranoid schizophrenia. Throughout the movie Nash and his wife, Alicia, have to try and cope with his constant delusions. This movie, by going through the life of John Nash, depicts his struggle with schizophrenia, the different treatments he has to endeavor, and his development as a person which can be seen through Gardner 's Theory of Multiple Intelligences.

On June 13, 1928, the adventure of John Nash's life had begun. Nash excelled academically from a young age, he was able to skip a grade, and soon after was accepted into Princeton University. He was considered one of the best mathematicians of his day. In time Nash developed schizophrenia; talking about himself in third person, writing in cryptic formulas on Princeton's blackboards, and calling his old colleagues. Then he was prescribed anti-psychotic and made a slow recovery, until he became frightened of the possible side effects and stopped taking his medication. With all the pain he suffered, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and with unknown causes he began to recover and in 1994 John Nash was awarded one of the

The biographical drama, A Beautiful Mind, illustrates many of the topics related to psychological disorders. The main character of the film, John Nash, is a brilliant mathematician and Nobel Prize winner, who suffers from symptoms of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is defined as a “psychotic disorder involving a break with reality and disturbances in thinking, emotions, behavior, and perceptions” (Ciccarelli and White, 2012, p. 563). Nash’s symptoms include: paranoid delusions, disturbed perceptions, hallucinations, and bizarre behavior. The audience comes to this conclusion as it becomes apparent that half of the places and situations that occur in the film are only illusions within Nash 's “beautiful” mind.

In the movie A Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard, John Nash is the main focus of this movie because he was diagnosed with a serious mental disease known as schizophrenia. Schizophrenia can be described by many different symptoms, but most cases contain illogical thoughts or hallucinations (1). This mental disease became a prominent factor in John Nash's life during his early adulthood. At this time, he was studying to obtain his doctorate at Princeton University. Although he had such an immaculate knowledge, it was his mind that was his downfall. His problems began by fantasizing a roommate named Charles Herman. This fantasy stays with him for the rest of his life. Once graduating with a doctorate, he begins working for the Massachusetts

A Beautiful Mind (Grazer, Howard, & Howard, 2001) is a film about the life of John Nash Jr. John Nash was a mathematician studying at Princeton University on a Carnegie Scholarship in 1947. The film portrays Nash’s academic journey, career, and personal life. As an adult, John Nash was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is classified as an emotional or behavioral low-incidence disorder disorder (Smith & Tyler, 2010, p. 234). According to Smith and Tyler, about 1% of the general population is diagnosed with schizophrenia by 18 years old (2010). According to Mental Health America, “someone with schizophrenia may have difficulty distinguishing between what is real and what is imaginary; may be unresponsive or withdrawn; and may have

"A Beautiful Mind" tells the story of Nobel Prize winner John Nash 's struggle with schizophrenia. It follows his journey from where Nash is quite unaware of his delusional schizophrenia, full blown paranoia, to the place where Nash, his wife, and friends are contributing factors to his manageable condition seen in closing. The film offers much, and relevant insight into the psychological condition of schizophrenia, including information on the symptoms, the treatment and cures, the life for the individual and for the individual 's family.

A Beautiful Mind Depicts the story of mathematical genius John Nash, and his battle with schizophrenia. When the audience is first introduced to Nash he is working to make a great discovery while attending graduate school. From the beginning, it is clear that Nash puts excessive pressure on himself to achieve this goal. Of course, his hard work eventually lead him to attain his objectives, but the stressful environment it created likely also triggered his schizophrenic tendencies. Although at the time of their meeting the audience is unaware, John’s Princeton roommate Charles turns out to be his initial hallucination. Later, when Nash is teaching at MIT a second hallucination appears in the form of a department of defense agent named William Parcher. Parcher seeks Nash out based on his skill in code braking, for a special assignment regarding their soviet enemies. The hallucinations reach a climax when Nash believes he and Parcher are being chased by Russians who uncovered their mission. Following this, when Nash is making an educational presentation, he appears to be paranoid about an angry group watching him. Abruptly, he ends his lecture to make an escape. Nash exhibits schizophrenic tendencies these two scenes, and periodically throughout the movie.

As the story unfolds, Nash is able to work through his illness to (in his words) "matter" in the world. This film is essentially a story of how a brilliant man was able to live with the vicissitudes of a debilitating mental illness to attain a true sense of accomplishment, or some would say, even a sense of greatness.

A Beautiful Mind is a movie based on the Life of John Nash. John was a diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia who suffered from delusional episodes. What made him stand out was not his mental illness, but his mathematical genius. He saw the world in ways that no one else could. He had a true gift that no one had seen before. Early in his career, he made an astonishing discovery that eventually led to him receiving a Nobel Prize. His mental illnesses enabled him to grasp abstract concepts that till then were unattainable by others.