Question

Your case is John Nash from the movie "A Beautiful Mind"

1. List the Symptoms.

2. Make a DSM IV or DSM V diagnosis and list the stressors. Use specific psychodiagnostic terms.

Set up a DSM IV diagnosis like this:

Axis I: whichever anxiety disorder you choose

AxisII: no diagnosis

Axis III: physical problems contributing to the DX?

Axis IV: what are the psychosocial stressors?

Axis V: Global assessment of functioning

Identify 3 problems that will be treated in psychotherapy and choose an approach and technique for each

3. Determine a treatment plan. Identify at least 3 problems, choose goals for each problem and methods of treatment (i.e. theoretical approach and technique). USE PSYCHOTHERAPY NOT PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Answer 1

Answer 1.

In the movie, “A Beautiful Mind." John Nash shows symptoms of schizophrenia as he experiences most, if not all, of the positive and negative symptoms that are required to make a diagnosis of this mental illness.

Nash shows delusions of grandiosity and persecution and evidently auditory and visual hallucinations in the form of a Department of Defens agent called Parcher who Nash believed  told him that Nash’s work would be important for the country.

In addition, he shows an onset of neologism or production of new languistic- mathematical symbols and signs which are outside the normal syntax. This can be seen when He filled the blackboards of Fine Hall at Princeton with indecipherable scribblings, and wandered about the campus in an apparent daze.

His relationships with his family, friends, and colleagues are disrupted by the intrusiveness of the symptoms of his mental illness, especially because he is perceived as being highly intelligent but the bizarre behaviors he exhibits are highly incongruent with the other people’s perceptions of him.