This research is under psycholinguistics umbrella. This research is aimed at identifying the types of hallucination, delusion, and formal thought disorder as reflected in the main character’s schizophrenic conversations in The Uninvited movie.udThis research employed a descriptive qualitative method and took the researcher as the key instrument. Therefore, the data were identified, classified, analyzed, interpreted, and reported by the researcher herself. To enhance data trustworthiness, this research employed theoretical triangulation by referring to schizophrenia theories from various books and journals. Finally, the findings were triangulated by the researcher’s two fellow university students majoring in linguistics.udThis research reveals three findings. First, three out of five types of hallucination occur in The Uninvited movie. Visual hallucination places on the first rank and it is followed by auditory hallucination and tactile hallucination on the second and third rank. The content of all hallucinations occurring in the movie is about the main character’s dead beloved people. Second, two out of six types of delusion are experienced by the main character in the movie. Persecutory delusion places on the first rank; delusion of guilt places on the second rank. The content of delusions in this movie is related to the schizophrenic character’s miserable past. Third, four out of eight types of formal thought disorder occur in the movie. Poverty of speech places on the first rank and it is followed by distractibility on the second rank. Meanwhile, both looseness and peculiar logic place on the third rank.
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