Case Study: Schizophrenia; A Beautiful Mind

I have done case studies for numerous years but I found the case of John Nash the most intriguing. John Nash was mildly arrogant, charming, and an extremely gifted mathematician. He would scribble mathematical formulas and discoveries on windows in his dorm room, and overall he had impeccable intelligence. He developed a groundbreaking economic theory, to his impressive rise to the cover of Forbes magazine and an MIT professorship, and on through to his eventual …

…Then, they may continue to experience these symptoms again. Nash convinced himself that the people were not real by telling himself this. At first, when he went off the drugs he was not controlling his thoughts. He told them to go away but they were persistent so he fell into his trap again. But then I talked with him and he knew that he had to prove that he could do this on his own.