title: "We all go a little mad sometimes": Alfred Hitchcock, American psychoanalysis, and the construction of the Cold War psychopath.
abstract: This article explores the image of the psychopath in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho. The famed director’s portrayal of a psychologically damaged young man connected with a much larger discussion over political and sexual deviance in the early Cold War, a discussion that cantered on the image of the psychopath as the dominant threat to national security and that played upon normative assumptions about adolescent development and mother-son relations.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Genter
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D001318:Authoritarianism; D057237:Criminals / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D054526:Men's Health / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history; D009040:Motion Pictures / Q000266:history; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D019529:Sexuality / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D014586:USSR / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology