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Is the Alfred Hitchcock movie title 'Psycho' wrong?

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I think it's safe to say that little Alfred had mummy issues. Nowhere are they more apparent than in Psycho. Despite its horror and suspense, Psycho is one of the simplest of Hitchcock's films because the central dynamic is so stark. It is also psychologically realistic, despite the ghoulish trappings. read more

At the time this film was made, in popular parlance, anybody mentally ill in a malevolent way might have been called by the generic moniker a “psycho.” The niceties and precision of diagnoses as carefully parsed in the DSM III (now DSM IV) would have been unknown to the average (and maybe even the sophisticated) moviegoer. read more

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (The Film Classics Library). Avon Books, 1974. This volume, published before the proliferation of home video, is entirely composed of photo reproductions of film frames along with dialogue captions, creating a fumetti of the entire motion picture. read more

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