Watch the movie A Beautiful Mind, 2001, directed
by Ron Howard. ( LINK WILL BE PROVIDED IN A SEPERATE WORD DOC.)
Answer the following (8 questions) using a question-and-answer format.
Put the questions in italics or bold font and the answers in a regular font.
1) Describe the setting. When and where did the movie begin?
2) What was Dr. Nash’s diagnosis? How was he initially treated
and how did that treatment change over time? Be specific.
3) State at least four examples of the DSM-5 symptoms we’ve
discussed in class, that Dr. Nash presented with and give examples of the symptoms
from the movie.
4) What was Dr. Nash’s first hallucination?
5) What stressor precipitated Dr. Nash’s first episode?
6) During the first one-third of the movie, Dr. Nash is
portrayed as a brilliant but arrogant young man who considers others as “lesser
mortals”. How did his attitude change in
the latter part of the film, and what do you attribute that change to?
7) What role did his wife play in his life and do you think
she had a positive influence on him and his recovery? Explain in detail.
8) What did laying the pens on the table in a Beautiful Mind
represent?
Report must be written
with a 12-pt. font, double-spaced. Do not use a bold font. Do not quadruple-space
between paragraphs. Proof-read your paper several times and use the spell and grammar
check. This paper must be approximately five pages. Do not submit papers with spelling and grammatical errors.