A Beautiful Mind Essay

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A Beautiful Mind Marlene Norono Introductory Psychology December 17, 2013 Dr. Amber Cohen, PsyD. South University A Beautiful Mind In the film " A Beautiful Mind" John Nash experiences a several different positive symptoms. Main trigger for Nash to develop full schizophrenic, was the pressure of producing his thesis, therefore creating a great stress on Nash. This stressor started his symptom through the hallucinations John has of having a room -mate while at Princeton. This room- mate continues to stay "in contact" with John throughout his adult life, and later this room- mate's niece enters Johns mind as another hallucination. Nash's other hallucination is Ed Harris, who plays a government agent that seeks out Nash's intelligence in the field of code- breaking. This hallucination of Ed Harris, is a factor in Nash's delusional thinking. He has delusions of being a secret government aide that is helping the U.S. find bombs throughout the country that were placed here by the Russians. Nash hallucinates, that Ed Harris places a device inside his arm that allows him to see a code under an ultra-violet light. This device allows Nash to gain entrance to a secret location where he is to leave the cracked codes. In reality, this secret location is an abandoned mansion, and the key- pad that Nash types his code into no longer functions. Nash's code breaking abilities are partly made possible by his hallucinations. The codes pop out of the paper to him, and everything makes sense. Even though the codes are imaginary. Nash figures out mathematical formulas, and actually modifies a theory that had been accepted in its field. Nash states that he cannot do his work without the hallucinations. Nash completely breaks down, and he thinks he is being held against his will by the Russians, when in reality he is schizophrenic. It was very hard for John to overcome the

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