Schizophrenia of Naoko on Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood (A Psychological Approach)

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder characterized by thought disturbances, hallucinations, withdrawal, and delusion. In Indonesia, 80 percents people with schizophrenia were let staying on the road or stocked. And even if the possibility to be cured is small but if schizophrenic has treatment from the beginning, there will be a chance for him or her to be cured. The aims of the research are to describe what schizophrenia is, to describe the characteristics of schizophrenia reflecting in Naoko’s character, to describe why Naoko is suffering from schizophrenia, and to describe the kind of schizophrenia that Naoko is suffering from. The method of this research is qualitative method because the resulting data of the study is presented in the form of quotations or descriptions. The result of the research are (1) schizophrenia is a group of psychological disorder that is divided by two symptoms, positive and negative, (2) Negative symptoms are characterized by thought disorder, delusion, and hallucination, while the negative are poverty of speech, social withdrawal, and inability to experience pleasure, (3) the schizophrenia is caused by genetic cause, (4) the schizophrenia is classified into undifferentiated schizophrenia.