Diagnosing John Nash from A Beautiful Mind (2001)

I diagnosed the character John Nash in the film A Beautiful Mind (2001) with schizophrenia on the basis of symptoms as described in Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed. TR) DSM V TR by American Psychiatric Association (2022). Incidentally, in the film, the character was given the diagnosis of schizophrenia as well. In my paper, you can read how fictionalized portrayal of schizophrenia in the film is different from schizophrenia as it unfolds in real life, and in what ways the character John Nash exhibited the symptoms of schizophrenia in the universe of the movie.

-Lina Orlova

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