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Movie Title: Psycho (1960)

1. Alfred Hitchcock's psycho 1960 is regarded as one of the world's greatest films ever made. Is it an accurate representation of mental illness?

2. Do feels like psycho offer a disservice to people with mental orders by perpetuating the myth of homicidal psychopath?

3. Bates voyeurism seems to almost innocuous compared to his other behaviors. How often are paraphilic disorders such as voyeurism linked with violence?

4. Basis trouble saying the word bathroom when he shows the hotel room to Marion. Is it common for people who commit sexual crimes to be uncomfortable with mature discussions of sexuality or elimination?

5. How often a lifetime of clinical experience with therapist treat a patient with a dissociative disorder? How often would and Norman Bates come along?

6. Marion has stolen $40,000 dollars? How does Hitchcock manage to make her sympathetic character with whom we can all identify?

7. How does a patient with dissociative disorder suppress the evidence presented by everyday experience example the non-responsiveness of the dead Mrs. Bates?

8. How does Hitchcock story line fit with the psychological Zeitgeist of the 1960s?