The film A Beautiful Mind (2001) illustrates the mental disorder and the history of
treatment for paranoid schizophrenia through the biographical account of noted mathematician
and founder of game theory, John Nash. The film depicts the early onset Nash‟s mental illness
in early adulthood, the customary deterioration and reduction of thinking capacity, the various
treatments methods and his eventual recovery. Nash is introduced on screen as a graduate
student attending Princeton University in 1947. The era of the film is a key period in the
development of schizophrenia treatment. The film promptly illustrates the typical symptoms of
schizophrenia, as Nash‟s social awkwardness, isolation and lack of social skills are quickly
apparent at the Princeton University graduate student meet and greet. Nash finds a certain safety
with numbers and attempts to formulate algorithms to explain everyday occurrences. This safety
contributes to his withdrawal and isolation as Nash attempts to define the seduction of a woman
through algorithms. The emotionally detached, socially isolated, bizarre and inward thinking of
Nash were rationalized as normal behaviour of an eccentric genius instead of early onset
symptoms of a mental illness.
As his mental illness progresses, Nash becomes more guarded and nervous and Nash‟s
paranoid schizophrenia symptoms begin to take over his life. The Department of Defence
recruited Nash during the Cold War due to his brilliance with mathematics to decode various
strings of coded numbers at the Wheeler Laboratory of Defense.
The film A Beautiful Mind (2001) illustrates the mental disorder and the history of treatment for paranoid schizophrenia through the biographical account of noted mathematician and founder of game theory, John Nash. The film depicts the early onset Nash‟s mental illnessin early adulthood, the customary deterioration and reduction of thinking capacity, the various treatments methods and his eventual recovery. Nash is introduced on screen as a graduate student attending Princeton University in 1947. The era of the film is a key period in the development of schizophrenia treatment. The film promptly illustrates the typical symptoms of schizophrenia, as Nash‟s social awkwardness, isolation and lack of social skills are quickly apparent at the Princeton University graduate student meet and greet. Nash finds a certain safety with numbers and attempts to formulate algorithms to explain everyday occurrences. This safety contributes to his withdrawal and isolation as Nash attempts to define the seduction of a womanthrough algorithms. The emotionally detached, socially isolated, bizarre and inward thinking of Nash were rationalized as normal behaviour of an eccentric genius instead of early onset symptoms of a mental illness. As his mental illness progresses, Nash becomes more guarded and nervous and Nash‟s paranoid schizophrenia symptoms begin to take over his life. The Department of Defence recruited Nash during the Cold War due to his brilliance with mathematics to decode various
strings of coded numbers at the Wheeler Laboratory of Defense.
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