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A Beautiful Mind

The movie A Beautiful Mind depicts the life of John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius who won the Nobel Prize in Economics. However, he also suffered from schizophrenia. The movie shows Nash experiencing hallucinations, paranoia, and irrational behavior associated with the disorder. It depicts his struggle to understand and gain control over his illness through a mixture of medication, therapy, and lifestyle changes. However, it takes some artistic liberties with facts about Nash's life to dramatize his experience with mental illness and recovery.

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A Beautiful Mind

The movie A Beautiful Mind depicts the life of John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius who won the Nobel Prize in Economics. However, he also suffered from schizophrenia. The movie shows Nash experiencing hallucinations, paranoia, and irrational behavior associated with the disorder. It depicts his struggle to understand and gain control over his illness through a mixture of medication, therapy, and lifestyle changes. However, it takes some artistic liberties with facts about Nash's life to dramatize his experience with mental illness and recovery.

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A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001)

A human drama inspired by events in the life of John


Forbes Nash Jr., and in part based on the biography
"A Beautiful Mind" by Sylvia Nasar. From the heights
of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes
Nash Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he
made an astonishing discovery early in his career
and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But
the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself
on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery.

In the movie, the main character presents symptoms


of a mental disorder called schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental
disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and
behaves. People with schizophrenia may seem like
they have lost touch with reality. Although
schizophrenia is not as common as other mental
disorders, the symptoms can be very disabling.

INSTRUCTIONS/QUESTIONS:

1. Watch the movie A Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard (movie) and Sylvia Nasar (book).
Type your answers in a Word document saved as .pdf. font size 12, font Style Segoe UI
or Arial.

2. What is the DSM-V diagnosis of the main character? (1)

3. How does the character meet these criteria? (1)

4. What positive and negative symptoms of Schizophrenia did the main character exhibit?
(1)

5. There are different ways that the movie veers from reality: John Nash continued to get
insulin shock treatment; was not invited to give a speech when he received the Nobel
Prize; he had an illegitimate child with a Boston nurse before he met Alicia; Alicia and
he divorced for many years and only remarried in 2001. What do these departures from
the facts of Nash’s life tell us about how the movie wants to depict John Nash and his
disability? (3)

6. According to the movie, he overcame his mental illness through power of will and his
superior intellect. What ramifications does that have for other people with
schizophrenia? (1)
7. Does the movie see his disability as simply biological? Does it depict his culture as
having a role in making him disabled? (1)

8. Knowing the signs and symptoms of Schizophrenia, describe events in the film that
reflect these signs and symptom. “Example: Hallucinations- When John speaks to his
roommate Charles at the bar.” (DO NOT use this example anymore) (3)
a. Hallucinations (visual and auditory)
b. Paranoia
c. Irrational behaviour

9. Is there a “cure” for schizophrenia? What life-changing behaviours has John continued
to do to make sure his life is what it was at the conclusion of the film? (1)

10. Why did John stop taking his meds? (1)

11. Which strategies and techniques did John use to gain control over his schizophrenic
symptoms? Were they chemical, behavioural, cognitive, or some mixture of the three?
Also, what did he sacrifice to gain control over these symptoms? (2)

12. What would be the priority nursing assessment and diagnosis for Mr. Nash? (2)

13. What interventions (both medical and nursing) were helpful or would be helpful for
this character? (3)

14. What medications would you anticipate the patient to be on? What side effect you have
observed? (2)

15. List and describe therapeutic communications and non- therapeutic communications
techniques that you observed in the movie? (3)

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