http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?talk/020311ta_talk_eskin Dave Bayer was the math advisor to, and Russell Crowe's hand double in A Beautiful Mind! I saw this with Brad on Friday night; it's rather good. Are schizophrenics happy with the way their illness is portrayed? The movie suggests that it can be at least partly overcome through the application of conscious thought. I suspect this is not a terribly helpful idea. (Blake Eskin also wrote one of my favourite ever "Talk of the Town" pieces: "Dirty Furniture.")
[Oh, okay, they are happy. Er, maybe not. ... I don't know why I'm still looking into this. John Nash himself, in his Nobel autobiography, says "... gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation." Now, is it helpful to have this as a widely accepted belief?] 14:42