By contrast to the film, which is brilliant and moving, but is also sentimental and superficial, (and will create misunderstanding of the nature of schizophrenic illnesses), the book is a biography of mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate of 1994 who recovered from 20 years of schizophrenic illness. Offering a conventional (but misleading) psychiatric view of psychosis as being largely genetically-derived, is nonetheless a gripping read.
(Murray Jackson - bwl 17 February 2003 ) |
