Case Study Of John Nash

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Case Study of John Nash - A Beautiful Mind History From His Autobiography John Nash was born, June 13, 1928 in a town called Blue field West Virginia, USA. His father who was also named John Nash was an electrical engineer and his mother Margaret Virginia, was a school teacher. He had one sister named Martha who was born 6 years after him. John had a normal upbringing with caring parents. They encouraged him in his education. There was no family history of schizophrenia or other mental disorders. When John began college, he started out thinking he would take after his father and become an electrical engineer but later changed his major to chemical engineering. Once again, by the time he reached Princeton University he changed his major to mathematics on the persuasion of his professors. His illness started to show prominent symptoms when he entered Princeton University in 1959 when he was about 30 years old. His wife was pregnant and expecting their first baby. In the movie, John had met his hallucination, William Parcher. William Parcher wanted him to decipher hidden codes, whereas, John was hesitant because of his wife's condition. Stating “I didn't sign up for this”. In real life (During this time he spent 50 days under observation at the McLean Hospital, and subsequent stays between 5 to 8 months involuntarily in a New Jersey Hospital). From the movie: Behaviors: In the movie, he demonstrated odd behaviors, and seemed more than a bit odd to his peers. He would take mounds of study materials to the local pub, pile them up on the table and doodle mathematical formulations. When in the company of women he would use mathematical odds as to who would get “lucky”. His behaviors with the opposite sex where inappropriate, insulting the women who were interested in him. He

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