Question

Please provide a 250-word response to the following question:

After watching the film, ”A Beautiful Mind”, please provide two concrete examples of a hallucination and two concrete examples of a delusion demonstrated in the film. In addition, please discuss your preconceived notions prior to watching this film about Schizophrenia.

Answer 1

Hallucinations in a Beautiful Mind:

Hallucinations are perceptions in the absence of stimuli.

1. Nash develops a friendship with his roommate Charles and continues to bond with him. In reality, there was no Charles. He was experiencing a visual hallucination.
2. Some years later, he began experiencing a new hallucination of Charles's niece.
3. He experienced another hallucination, that of Agent Parcher from the FBI>

Delusions in the Beautiful Mind:

Delusions are false beliefs that are held with no basis in reality.

1. Delusions of persecution: Nash believed that the Soviet spies were after him.
2. Delusions of grandeur: Nash believed that he had been selected for a special mission with the FBI.