A Brilliant Madness’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r33KSy-b4Mk) shows John Nash’s experiences with mental illness over his entire adult lifespan, from the 1950s to the 1990s (he died this year)....

A Brilliant Madness’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r33KSy-b4Mk) shows John Nash’s experiences with mental illness over his entire adult lifespan, from the 1950s to the 1990s (he died this year). You are not being asked to describe in detail the differences between DSM  1 and DSM 5; you can acknowledge some changes, but the focus here is on the Medical Model as taught in class and which we consider synonymous with the DSM approach to diagnosis.

When you consider his many diverse experiences as a person diagnosed with schizophrenia……
1. Do you think anything about John Nash protected him from the worst impacts of the medical model at the time that he was hospitalized? What do you think would have happened if he was hospitalized now? How could the DSM/Medical Model have been more helpful if Nash had lived today – if he had worked with a good psychiatrist, and also with a good social worker? What would a “good psychiatrist” or a “good social worker” have to do? (2 pages, d. spaced 12 pt font)

2. What aspects of Nash’s experience point to flaws in the DSM/Medical Model of mental illness, both in his time and today? What parts of his experience show the limits of the DSM/Medical Model approach? How was this approach not helpful to John Nash? How might it still be not helpful to Nash, even if he had encountered it now? (2 pages, double spaced, 12 pt font)