As media sensationalised deinstitutionalization, Hitchcock also tried his hands on a series of films in which he continued to experiment with ways of making an image of madness. Spellbound (1945) is one such which is set is psychiatric hospital. This film was also the result of Selznick’s interest in psychology. Then came Hitchcock’s 1950s trilogy of films about madness which was a major progressive and studied attempt to use the symptom groups of major psychoses: The Wrong Man (1956) dealing with depression; Vertigo (1958) with obsession and Psycho (1960) with Schizophrenia. Psychoanalytic reading can also be applied in films like The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and Rear Window (1954). Hitchcock succeeded in thoughtfully weaving narrative
