CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS

Clinical Diagnosis

Clinical diagnosis

Answer 1

Diagnosis

"A Beautiful Mind" is about a mathematician's life, which is full of success, struggles and sufferings. Film is started with mathematics terms of a professor in 1947, Princeton University where John Nash, the main character of the film, is educated.

John Nash had a psychotic break when he was in his 30's when he was presenting a speech in the Auditorium of Princeton University as a Math Professor. Nash imagined that he was seeing Russian spies working for the government. Schizophrenia occurs when other family members have it as well. In Nash's case it is observed no family history of the disease, but one of his brothers was suspected of having the disease. In addition, substance abuse leads to schizophrenia. In Nash's character, this was the abuse of alcohol which may have been a contributing factor. It is learned in the movie that that Nash experienced delusions with characters such as Charles (an imagined college roommate who seems straight out of Dead Poets Society), Marcy (an orphaned girl), and William Parcher (maniacal Department of Defense agent) who were all fragments of his imagination. These delusions seem as fluid and script-like as to make me wonder if schizophrenia is really as slick as depicted. These delusions lead to more prominent symptoms such as extreme paranoia. These observations incited me to diagnose him with paranoid schizophrenia. In my assessment, I learned that Nash went to Princeton in 1947, and he was always a typically unsocial man. This behaviour allowed him to be a genius and creative in solving his mathematical problems. Furthermore, with mind studies, other social scientists discovered a possible link or correlation that creativity is possibly linked with schizophrenia (Econom, 1996).

Answer 2

Origin of the disorder

In the film “A Beautiful Mind”, schizophrenia, imagination at its extremes, dawns upon the genius of John Nash. The origin of the disorder started when his mind created a new world for him, which provided comfort in his loneliness, but essentially his mentality proved to be the most prominent barrier in his life. This notion is even reinstated by physical barriers in the film, for example the locked door between Alicia and John, accompanied by Alicia's cries and loud banging against the wood. Charles and Marcee symbolized the friends and intimacy that John lacked in his life whilst Parcher brought out the ambition and the desire to be great in Nash. ...