Sylvia Nasar writes the award-winning book A Beautiful Mind, based on a true story. The book explains how an intelligent individual generates formulated equations from which he creates. He suffers from a disorder called schizophrenia. Nasar talks about how he dealt with the disorder that led to his success, as well as the events that occurred in the process. “Schizophrenia is a chronic, serious, and disabling brain disorder that has affected many people throughout history” (NIMH). This disease can cause people to see things, hear things, or believe that people are plotting to harm them. John Forbes Nash Jr. the mathematical genius, his story begins in a small town called Bluefield in West Virginia. A brilliant human being, after high school Nash went to Pittsburgh to study chemical engineering. He did not adequately follow the professor's work and felt that this was not his calling in life. John wanted to be noticed so that people would notice him, with some kind of invention. The young scholar was subsequently accepted by the four top mathematics programs at Harvard, Princeton, Chicago and Michigan. He chose Princeton because of the esteem the college held in him and the amount of money they gave him. After arriving at Princeton John Von Neumann seemed to be the star of mathematics at the time, Neumann was considered the model of Nash's generation. His years spent at Princeton led Nash to construct a formula that named him a member of the National Academy Sciences. The job market was bad at the time after Princeton, but John was still offered a CLE Moore instructor position from MIT and teaching from Chicago. He moved to Boston living in a room in Boston near MIT. While at MIT he developed an interest in fluid dynamics. While… middle of the paper… I developed schizophrenia. CBT has been reported in the past to help treat psychosis. Thirty-four studies on CBT were conducted in public settings. The rest was used as source data trace for meta-analysis and methodology effects. The results show how beneficial CBT was and how improvements emerged from the therapy. This is something to help patients suffering from schizophrenia and improve them through therapeutic approaches. After reading the text I believe that Nash's condition also consisted of paranoid schizophrenia which required him to worry about one or more delusions of frequent auditory hallucinations. He seems to suffer from some sort of social disorder, as he sometimes finds it difficult to talk to others. This story was made into a movie. He won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and many more in the space of three years (2000-2003).