For Those of You Who Have Seen "A Beautiful Mind"

Been awhile but I'll give it a shot:

A1. His "roommate." Nash's doctor verified that he never had a roomate at Princeton.

A2. How about his CIA contact and the entire incident with the Russians chasing him down and shooting at him. That drop-spot was show to be in a delapidated condition and the mailbox stuffed with Nash's contributions. No one ever picked them up.

A3. Didn't it make him sexually dysfunctional?

A4. ?

A5. No. I don't think it is something you cure; you manage it as best you can.

A6. To see if he would be an embarassment to them should he be awarded a prize.

A7. Nobel Prize for Economics. Can't be more specific.

A8. In a variety of ways. Some mocked him. Many tolerated and assisted him. That scene when they awarded him their pens was beautiful...

A9. Electro-shock therapy

 

Try looking up Nash on a search engine. The movie does not follow his life exactly but it could give you some answers.


Here is a few anwers:


Q3. Why was Dr. Nash non-compliant in taking his medication?.
A: I think he didnt like it because it blured his thinking so he was no longer a genuis when he was taking it.

Q4. What treatment allowed Dr. Nash to re-enter the academic world?
A: I think that he the treatment didnt really do anything. Its like you said the guy was just intellegent to figure out what was real and what was an illusion.

Q7. What award did Dr. Nash receive? For what specific discovery/contribution? When?
A - He won a noble prize in economic in the 90's for his work on game theory. (the breakthrough concept he came up with early in the movie)

 

Q7 - His game theory concept was basically the Nash Equilibrium. It has to do (at least in the terms I've learned it in) with making decisions in game theory and optimizing outcomes. I can go into more detail if you really want, but I'm not sure you need much more on this.

 

QUESTIONS:
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Q1. What were some of Dr. Nash's delusions? Explain why you believe these were delusions.

He believed that he was a secret operative for the goverment discovering code that was sent through popular magazines.

Q2. Did Dr. Nash experience hallucinations or other perceptual disturbances? If yes, please explain.

Yes. You are right. He hallucinated his friend and the FBI character.

Q3. Why was Dr. Nash non-compliant in taking his medication?

He didn't like the medication because it slowed his mind and made him incapable to perform some simple tasks.

Q4. What treatment allowed Dr. Nash to re-enter the academic world?

I assume this is referring to the medicine...but they might be talking about his decision to simply ignore the hallucinations.

b[]Q5. Do you believe Dr. Nash was cured? Why or why not?[/b]

He was not cured in the medical sense, but since he overcaim his disease, some might consider him cured.

Q6. Why did the awards committee send someone to campus to visit with Dr. Nash?

They wanted to ensure that he was mentally capable enough to have a ceremony where he was given an award. So that he wouldn't crazy in the middle of it.

Q7. What award did Dr. Nash receive? For what specific discovery/contribution? When?

Major answered this better than I.

Q8. How did Dr. Nash's students and his colleagues react to his behavior and other symptoms of schizophrenia?

Most of them just wanted to help him.


Honestly, Lil Pun, most of these questions are not very difficult if you watched the movie and paid attention. Are you sure you weren't like cooking dinner or doing something else while the movie was on in the background? I only saw it once the first week it was in theaters and I still remembered the answer to most of these.

 

You might want to check out the book "A Beautiful Mind" by Sylivia Nasser, a professor at my former school Columbia. It is what the movie is based upon and it a bestseller (I think). It is more likely to give you accurate explanations rather than the hollywood-ized version in the movie where you are forced to interpret more. Plus, it will be a concrete form of reference rather than searching through a movie.

 

Is her assignment on the movie or on this guys real life ?

...because the movie is not like the real story...for example he didn't really see those imaginary people.I guess this was the best way hollywood could come up with to convey him being crazy.

 

ANSWERS:
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A1. The conspiracy the gov/DOD was after him (remember this question is about delusions—such as paranoia, not the hallucinations that were visually depicted in the movie though in real life Nash probably did not have them), and later that he was being held for political/military/gov reasons. There never was validation from any other person that was in his daily life (wife, students, friends) about these delusions..

A2. Other have given some examples, plus the MIT Warehouse/DOD secret lab. Seeing the codes in his clippings also certainly reflected perceptual disturbances.

A3. Lack of sex drive and the fact he either really or imagined the meds crushed his creativity and thinking ability.

A4. Treatment was complicated—medical, social & behavioral---including putting him in very familiar surroundings with supportive friends and colleagues, though I would not say he ever fully rejoined academic.

A5. No, he just learned to manage with his hallucinations.

A6. So that he would not embarrass the Swedish academy of science (checking him out before awarding the Nobel in economics).

A7. Above award, for his work on the modeling of interdependent and mutually beneficial negotiating behavior or something like that.

A8. Mixed, but most were supportive and tried to help, and few couldn’t deal at all so they just didn’t see him

A9. It wasn’t electro-shock therapy, I think it was Insulin Shock therapy.