Keeping the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’ in mind, the...

Keeping the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’ in mind, the following is a psychological analysis on John Nash ,the main character of the movie who is also a victim of Paranoid Schizophrenia .It also aims at analyzing the effect it had on the people around him. Schizophrenia has been defined as â€Å"split mind†. It refers not to a multiple personality split but rather to a split from reality that shows itself in disorganized thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions†. In the movie ,Nash was diagnosed with the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. Paranoid schizophrenia also called schizophrenia, paranoid type is a sub-type of schizophrenia, it is when being preoccupied with delusions or hallucinations, generally with cases†¦show more content†¦This delusion also made him think that the physiatrist was a Russian agent. o Grandeur delusion – this makes Nash believe that he possess some superior quality of being the ‘Best Natural Code Breaker’. †¢ Auditory Hallucinations – Basically Nash could hear voices that were not really present. He could hear the voice of Charles , Charles nephew and William talking to him or to each other, the voice of a babies laughter and even the ‘bang’ of the gun .People would think that he is talking to himself because according to him the voices were real. 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