In each of Alfred Hitchcock's movies, psychology plays a huge role in the development of the plot and characters. Most of the time the main characters are the one who's psychology is a little off which builds up the plot because they are acting unusual and getting them into situations that would not happen to "normal" people. For example in the movie Vertigo, the main character has a traumatic experience with heights so from then on, it affects what he does in the movie and ultimately ends up getting someone killed because he got dizzy; just like what had happened to him before. In the movie Rear Window, the same kind of thing happened with an accident happening leading to the main character just staring out his window all day watching others live their own lives. With him watching out the window all day he ends up witnessing what he believes is a murder and gets tied up into trying to prove that the main who lives across from him murdered his wife. The psychology of first watching other people live their lives instead of trying to live your own just proves that it is a crucial part of this Hitchcock film because without that characteristic, the entire film would not have happened that way. Same goes for Vertigo and how the plot develops around the mental state of him not being able to stand heights and getting dizzy every time he has to encounter them. Lastly in the movie Psycho which is the most heavily influenced movie by psychology from Hitchcock, is about "a psychologically damaged young man connected with a much larger discussion over political and sexual deviance in the early Cold War" Most of the psychology elements in Hitchcock films are based off of disorders which drives the plot and allows a thriller style movie to unfold.
^Link to PDF of psychoanalysis of the movie Psycho
^Link to use of Freud's theory in Hitchcock films
^How Hitchcock plays off of Suspense
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