In this inaugural episode, Screams and Schemas opens the door to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho — a psychological autopsy of Norman Bates and the schemas that shaped him.
Host, Jessie Young, analyzes the enmeshment that blurred Norman’s identity, the defectiveness and shame that hollowed him from within, and the haunting consequences of internalized control.
Part case study, part cinematic reflection, this episode examines how early attachment wounds can split the self — and how horror films mirror the very defenses we use to survive them.