Dissociative disorders are conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception. People with dissociative disorders use dissociation, a defense mechanism, pathologically and involuntarily. Dissociative disorders are thought to primarily be caused by psychological trauma. Dissociative disorders are so-called because they are marked by a dissociation from or interruption of a person’s […]
Psycho
Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a secretary in Phoenix, Arizona, steals $40,000 from one of her employer’s clients to help her financially strapped divorced boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin). She flees in her car en route to Sam’s California home, parking along the road midway to sleep. A highway patrol officer awakens her, becomes suspicious of […]