John Nash Psychology

The movie is based off of the true story of Nobel Prize winner John Nash. The story follows child prodigy, John Nash through his life. John arrives at Princeton University as a smart young man who won the Carnegie Prize for mathematics. As he arrives in campus he discovers that he has a shared room with Charles, Charles and John quickly become best friends. John needs to create an original idea for a assignment. The idea is triggered after he faces rejection from a women at a local bar. Five years later John is teaching mathematics at Calculus at MIT. He meets a extraordinary women who is a student of his class , Alicia soon becomes his wife. Occasionally John visits Princeton and encounters a department of defence agent, William Parcher, Parcher asks John to break codes. John begins to collect new paper clippings and to start solving the codes. Alicia starts getting concerned about his erratic behaviour. John is then diagnosed with schizophrenia. He goes through a range of various treatments to help him control his

He is very introverted and concerted on finding a mathematical solution to his own problems. His psychical appearance includes brown hair, hazel eyes, and has a fascination of wearing suits throughout the film.

John Nash was treated differently because of his high social status throughout the movie. John was in very high power and was surrounded by people who were in high power. Throughout the movie everything was handed to John meaning that he didn't have to work to hard to get what he wanted and needed. He did however receive a lot of moral support from his friends and family, which gave him a lot of connections after his relapse e.g. Because he new Mark he was able to get a job at Princeton. Despite his illness he did not give up through the troubling times of his