Margarita Rodríguez for BBC News Mundo:
Alicia Lardé was key to changing many people’s perceptions of schizophrenia by helping to bring one of the most gifted minds of the 20th century out of obscurity: mathematician John Nash.
“While John was famous for many things, including his Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 and his ability to slowly emerge from the cognitive fog of schizophrenia, for me it is best to remember them together, as one of the great love stories of all. the times”.
“Alicia also deserves fame and to be remembered for her beautiful mind. Without her, there would most likely have been no recovery and no Nobel Prize,” wrote Dr. Nancy C. Andrease in the article “John and Alicia Nash: A Beautiful Love Story,” published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, in August 2015.
How he saved it:
Nasar tells in the article “The Lost Years of a Nobel Laureate,” published in The New York Times in 1994, that Lardé believed very firmly that Nash “should live at home and remain in the mathematical community at Princeton (University) even even if it didn’t work well.”
Lardé believed that being in familiar environments would help provide stability for her husband and she rejected the idea of him being permanently in a psychiatric institution.
Nasar tells in the article “The Lost Years of a Nobel Laureate,” published in The New York Times in 1994, that Lardé believed very firmly that Nash “should live at home and remain in the mathematical community at Princeton (University) even even if it didn’t work well.”
Lardé believed that being in familiar environments would help provide stability for her husband and she rejected the idea of him being permanently in a psychiatric institution.
A very admirable woman who deserves recognition:
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“For 30 years, it was not a romantic life. She was the head of the family, she worked very hard to support her husband and her son.”
In fact, in a 2005 interview with Shane Hegarty of The Irish Times, Lardé acknowledges that “it was a great film” but with a good dose of fiction.
Lardé worked as a computer programmer and data analyst.
“She had to deal with the behaviors typical of paranoid schizophrenia plus the emotional trauma and difficulties that many families with relatives who suffer from mental illness face,” says the doctor.
Everyone talks about John Nash, his diagnosis and the Nobel Prize he won. It is time to speak and make the powerful story of Alicia Lardé known.
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