John Forbes Nash Jr.

John Forbes Nash Jr. is a math vaticination and champion of the recipients of the prestigious Carnegie Prize for Mathematics at Princeton University. While fetching his graduate studies, he met his roomie Charles Herman, a literature student who became his opera hat friend. His eccentric carriage made it difficult for other plurality to clear and relate to him. Nashs obsession in searching for an original intellectualion for his thesis and a place in the student cordial power structure led him to skip screen outes which nearly cost his failure.Fortunately, he was saved by his original query study where he was subject to formulate a theory in mathematical economics known as the model of governing dynamics. After his graduate studies, he doinged at the Massachusetts appoint of Technology (MIT) and selected his friends Sol and Bender to work with him.While teaching a class on Calculus, he met Alicia, a student who later became his wife. While at Princeton, Nash be assume d erratically and became paranoid. This compelled Alicia to call a psychiatrist who forcibly took him to a psychiatric facility. While confined in the facility, Alicia showed Nash the unopened classified documents that he delivered in a drop box. This convinced Nash that he has been hallucinating and his classified work to decode Soviet mess dates was a delusion.William Parcher, a mysterious Department of defense team agent, Charles and Charles niece, Marcee were products of his oral sex. Nash was diagnosed to have paranoid schizophrenia and was treated with a series of insulin nose candy therapy for ten weeks. He was given daily antipsychotic medications that modify his intellect and his relationship with Alicia. Nash became frustrated and secretly discontinued his medications. This triggered a relapse alone he came to realize his psychosis when he saw that Marcee remained at the same age for many years.Nash learned to live with his schizophrenia and ignored his hallucinations. With the permission of Martin Hansen, his old(a) friend and intellectual rival who became the head of mathematics department in Princeton, Nash was given a space in the library to talk to students and size up classes. Eventually, he was able to teach again and was honored in a pen ceremony by his colleagues for his effect and contribution in the battleground of Mathematics. He was also awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in Stockholm for his work on game theory.1. Why did you pick this mental picture?I chose the film A Beautiful Mind non on the basis of knowing anyone who has a similar problem or on my capacity to relate to the psychological issues on a personal experience. I chose this movie because there are some scenes in the film which I find very intriguing and influential. First, there was no family involvement and armorial bearing in his wedding, academic achievements and illness of John Nash. Second, persons with mental disorder get going a stigma during t he early years but John Nashs struggle to be reintegrated in Princeton and in his community was remarkable. Third, his superior achievement despite his mental illness is inspiring. Lastly, the movie was powerful enough to brace the consciousness of people towards understanding the plight of people living schizophrenia.2. What psychological issues are portrayed in this film?The story showed the eccentric look of John Nash. He was unconcern by societys censure of his awkward habits and behavior. His manner of walking and his constant habit of touching his eyebrow became the focus of attention by some students in Princeton.Nash was obsessed with his research work and his standing in the student social hierarchy. He brings his books and cover work while he was at a local suspend with his friends. Although he has few friends at Princeton, he has a strong orientation course to be alone and often preoccupied with his own thoughts which is a constitution feature of an introvert. Na sh also exhibited a type A personality conventionality by being achievement oriented, over involved with work, having a gumption of time urgency, being impatient and angry when confronted with delays or with people whom they assimilate as incompetent.In the movie, Nash manifested visual and auditory hallucinations and paranoia which frightened his wife and affected his government agency at work. He thinks that he is operative for the US National self-abnegation Department and there are Russian spies following him. He interacts with people who only exist in his mind such as his roommate and best friend Charles Herman, US Department of Defense agent William Parcher and Charles youngish niece Marcee.3. What diagnosis (if any) does the main character portray?Dr. Rosen diagnosed John Nash to be afflict with paranoid schizophrenia due to his visual and auditory hallucinations, delusion and paranoia. The diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV-TR defined schizophre nia as a disorder that last for at least 6 months and includes at least 1 month of active-phase symptoms, i.e. two or more of the following delusions, hallucinations, disorganize speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, and negative symptoms (American Psychological connecter, 2000).Only one symptom in Criterion A is required if delusions are laughable or hallucinations consist of two or more voices conversing with one some other or voices maintaining a running commentary on the persons behavior or thoughts (ibid.). The continuous signs of his disturbance persisted since he took his Masters level and it continued until he worked at MIT.4. What psychological theory best explains the behavior of the major characters in the film?Incentives are environmental factors such as external stimuli or rewards which motivate our behavior (Skinner, 1953). The theory of motivation, specifically the motivator theory best describe the behavior of John Nash (Westmont College, 2008). N ash was senior highly motivated by the motivator of occupying a place in the student social hierarchy in Princeton University. He was intellectually competitive and the academic incentive pulled him to write an original research paper that would defeat his rival Martin Hansen. His achievements and realization also led to the satisfaction of his need for self esteem. His career emergence and advancement is a realization of his need for self actualization. These needs part comprise Maslows hierarchy of needs (Maslow, 1954)Alicia Nash has an extrovert personality trait. In the movie, she was able to talk to the construction workers to work in another scope so they could have good ventilation and a noise-free classroom environment. This indicates that she interacts head with people and she has the tendency to direct her personality outward the self.Her determination to set off the truth and help her husband John prove that he is working for the National Defense Department shows that she is a woman of action, whose motives are conditioned by external events. Accepting Johns situation and maneuver him towards reintegration manifest that she accommodates readily to new situations. Alicias extrovert personality trait is part of the personality type theory developed by Carl Jung (Jung, 1933).5. found on what you have learned from the movie would you say the film portrays the psychological issue accurately or not? Why?The movie did not portray the psychological issues accurately. Although John Nash manifested two of the characteristic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations as indicated in Criterion A of DSM IV-TR, his hallucinations were not limited to auditory. He has both the visual and auditory hallucinations which are uncommon for schizophrenia.The film showed that the onrush of his mental disorder started during his graduate studies, a period wherein Nash had a high level of academic and occupational achievement. He may not be sociable but his in terpersonal skill is acceptable otherwise, he would have difficulties in developing friendships with some students at Princeton and would not have a relationship with Alicia. Therefore, he has not also met the symptoms for schizophrenia such as social and occupational dysfunction as indicated in Criterion B.Two thoughts came to mind when John Nash said that he is taking a new medication. First, does this implicate that he was on continuous medication since his relapse or has he discontinued taking his medication for many years and decided to punish the newly discovered pill? Second, Nash daily antipsychotic medication affected his intellectual ability and his relationship with Alicia. He was not also able to engage in any occupation. One can only cum up with a conjecture that since Nash was able to teach at Princeton University office that he discontinued his medication and learned to live with his hallucinations.ReferencesAmerican Psychiatric intimacy (2000). Diagnostic and st atistical manual of mental disorders DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision). American Psychiatric Association Washington, DC.Jung, C. G. (1933). Psychological types. New York Harcourt Brace and World.Maslow, A.H. (1954). Motivation and personality. New YorkHarper and Row.Skinner, B.F. (1953). science and human behavior. New York Macmillan.Westmont College (2008). Motivation. Retrieved February 1, 2008 from http//www.westmont.edu/_academics/pages/departments/psychology/pages/smith/ge neral/lectureoutlines/11motivation/theoriesmotivation.html