Norman Bates Psychology

“Psycho” is a classic suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which features a central female protagonist, a seemingly ordinary young woman named Marion Crane, who crosses paths with a dangerous mentally ill motel owner, Norman Bates. As their strange relationship develops, a dominant theme of good versus evil is introduced to the audience through the use of characterisation, editing, mise-en-scene and various other media techniques.

Marion is commonly shot from eye level in soft lighting, therefore allowing the audience to gain a sense of comfort whilst viewing her in a natural position, essentially constructing a sense of normality. The audience is made to see and respond to Marion as an equal, and despite her previous actions of embezzlement, she becomes a relatable character. This however is greatly juxtaposed when we compare it to the constant use of low angled, shadowy shots of Norman Bates. The shifts to Norman’s angle are suggestive that his worlds is off balanced and skewed. Shots of Bates only show one side of his face, another emphasis regarding the foreshadow of his dual personality which is later uncovered within the film. The audience is made to feel unfamiliar with the shots used to depict Bates, this only adding to the unease surrounding his character, as well as the tense, uncomfortable mood to which Hitchcock has worked to mould throughout the film.

In the movie each of the main characters, Norman who is eighty years old, Ethel who is seventy years old and Chelsea who is forty years old go through some of the stages of psychosocial development. The first character in the movie I will be talking about is Norman. I recognized him first from the movie because I knew something seemed wrong with him. For example, in the beginning of the movie him and his wife Ethel goes to their vacation spot and he sees a picture of them and doesn’t recognize who the people are. His wife had to remind him that it was them in the picture. He is very forgetful and it seems that his mental is not as strong as it

In cooperating with and testifying for both the United States and Commonwealth of Virginia, Mr. Bates has taken on a significant risk of danger to him and his family. During much of the pendency of his district court case, Mr. Bates was housed in a segregated unit of the Alexandria Adult Detention Center for his safety. As a government witness in Mr. Akordor’s trial, Mr. Bates’ life was in danger. For the nine days, Mr. Bates was in Culpeper for witness preparation and waiting to be called to testify, he was held in jail segregation.

The main character observed was Norman even though it was his birthday and the rivals of his daughter visit. He encounters many emotion’s while on the journey entering late adulthood. Biologically Norman faces fear of aging, but also feeling the past is fading away. Norman attitude changes to due to grief felt as he experiences physical and mental changes, yet it puts relationships in a warp of a tornado. As the movie progress you will see Norman reveal emotions, insecurity, and mental instability and becomes a serious challenge, for example when Norman was lost in the woods he came back running because he was not able to find his way back. With the disease he is encountered with a slow mental decline. Aging adults become very grumpy, arrogant, and impatient, however, Norman will not let go what was once familiar to him, and even if he struggles to claim a command with the younger ones.

The film begins with police and reporters surrounding a dead body in a pool. This initial opening scene of a dead body in a pool creates an investigative mood for the audience essentially. Throughout the film, Wilder constantly uses a low-key lighting to emphasize the style (characteristic) of Film Noir. Norma’s house has clearly been thought through thoroughly as each room, especially living room, involves an immensely cluster of arrogant paintings. The rooms are congested and dimly lit, constantly keeping the mood of Film Noir. The relationship between the lighting and setting of house (clutter) emphasizes that Norma is suffocating her own life (ironic as she is suicidal).

In the film, Michael Myers showed many different things dealing with psychological disorders such as conversion disorder, and antisocial personality disorder. Starting with conversion disorder as one of the first few of the psychological disorders. According to Comer’s text it says, “People with this disorder display physical symptoms that affect voluntary motor or sensory functioning, but the symptoms are inconsistent with known medical diseases followed by, presence of at least one symptom or deficit that affects voluntary or sensory function, symptoms are found to be inconsistent with known neurological or medical diseases, and significant distress or impairment” (APA, 2013). During the film, when Michael killed all of Laurie’s friends,

Every aspect of The Big Sleep was taken even further with perhaps Alfred Hitchcock’s best film, Psycho. One of the most interesting elements of this film is how the main character and plot completely changes halfway through the film. For the first part of the film, the audience follows Marion Crane (Janet Leigh). Marion is in love with Sam Loomis (John Gavin) and decides to skip town after she steals $40,000 dollars from the company she works for. She eventually arrives at the Bates Motel where she meets Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), who runs the motel for his mother. In a twist of events, Marion is killed in a dramatic shower scene, after which the story completely shifts to follow the investigation of Marion’s disappearance, as well as the mystery of Norman and his mother. This is a very experimental way of structuring a film, but worked

The film Dr. Strange, directed by Scott Derrickson, is based on a highly-qualified Neurosurgeon named Doctor Stephen Strange. He has an ego that is comparable to Tony Stark’s, the main character known for his enormous ego in the movie Iron Man. Dr. Strange has little to no regard to the people around him and goes throughout his day only thinking about himself. With a self-centered and egotistical attitude, Strange slowly learns how it feels to be humiliated and instead be the patient on the table. After a brutal car accident from distracted driving, he suffers from many injuries, one which he loses full control of his hands. He seeks answers to try to heal his hands and meets a man who will forever change his life.

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When "Bates Motel" begins, Norman seems to be a normal teenage boy, who is a bit of an introvert. He prefers school work and reading to going out and being social. He has an extremely

I have watched the film Psycho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock and have also seen different remakes of the film. After watching this film again, I did notice that Norman Bates played by Anthony Perkins had body movements that displayed feminine behavior and mannerisms that I had not noticed before. For example, when he was walking up the stairs along with some of his hand movements. In regards to Norman (Anthony Perkins) and Marion’s (Janet Leigh) personas they both possess the characteristics of good and bad along with exhibiting similarities in their defense patterns, concealing of their identities and how they deal with their conscience however, they are on different scales.

Norman is lied about his mom, she does not live with him in the house on the hill behind the motel, that is kind of a lie because his mother is dead and was buried a long time ago. It’s a half-truth statement because his mother is really dead but she is alive in Norman’s mind, he as a double personality but the mother part of his personality is domineering and she wants to take over his own personality most of time. The killer, Norman Bates, not only quotes that “a boy’s best friend is his mother”, but he dresses up as her and puts on a personality, he even had arguments with himself in both roles and it suggests a clear delusion of reality in Bates’s mind, and is in part why he kills Marion Crane in the famous shower scene. Mother’s personality is jailed in Norman and a part of his personality is domineering Norman’s mind and she makes the decisions of what he will do next.

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. It seeks to comprehend people by understanding mental functions and social behavior. It also explores neurobiological and physiological processes that can drive cognitive functions and behaviors. It is this drive to understand mental processes that pushes psychologists to want to learn about what is normal and abnormal behavior. People have tried for thousands of years to understand and define abnormal behavior. In the past 100 years it has undergone “tremendous change, progress, and controversy”(Hansell, J & Damour, L., 2009, p.3). Throughout the modifications certain principles have remained which are known as the core concepts. These core concepts are what define

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