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The Shrink

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The Shrink	comment	The mental health field is a complicated one. And fiction writers aren't necessarily fond of complicated real-life concepts. That's why you get tropes such as All Psychology Is Freudian. When even that is too much, you'll see There Are No Therapists. But that's obviously quite unrealistic. There are, in fact, psychologists and psychiatrists in this crazy world of ours. And this trope is dedicated to the portrayal of them in fiction. There are three general portrayals: The Harmful Shrink: Whether this doctor is evil or simply so stupid that they hurt the patient, The Harmful Shrink is the worst kind of psychologist. Theyâ€™re cruel and lack any empathy with their patients â€” and may even be working with the enemy. Theyâ€™ll frequently violate the sacrosanct concept of Doctor-Patient Confidentiality, and you can expect them to shovel pills down the patient's throat. Shrinks who are less actively malign will still tend to cultivate dependence on themselves in their patients for the purpose of getting more billable hours, even if their therapy is no longer necessary or doing more harm than good. A particularly common subset is grief counselors who do all they can to make sure their patients never recover from their losses and keep going to grief counseling forever. The Well-Meaning, But Dopey and Ineffective Shrink: Usually liberal and possessed of extraordinary amounts of empathy, this doctor really wants to help you. They'll spend hours listening to your problems. They'll try to avoid pumping you full of psychotropic drugs. But they just don't get it. This shrinkâ€™s failing is usually due to a surfeit of compassion. Dr. Love here just can't quite fathom the concept that their patients are anything but great people suffering from problems beyond their control. Frequently seen in the Law Procedural, where they get suckered by the defense into testifying that the brutal and murderous man on trial is crazy and can't be punished, or in Speculative Fiction, diagnosing the hero as insane for reporting (genuine) monsters/ghosts/etc. The Awesome Shrink: Even within this group, there are different varieties of Awesome Shrink. They can be compassionate and understanding where everyone before has been cruel to the protagonist. Alternatively, they provide the character in question with the kind of Tough Love he's always needed. Regardless, this doctor is always smart, almost always cool, and never resorts to drugs when they're not needed. Sillier examples of the first two types are often portrayed as bearded men with Viennese accents. Some works feature psychiatrist characters who bounce back and forth between these categories or multiple psychiatrists who cover different types. (Fictional works by therapists and from the therapist's point of view tend to portray therapists sympathetically but as rather less idealized than type 3, knowing that even a good therapist has their own problems and insecurities, as everyone does.) And, as always, keep in mind that these categories are somewhat simplified. Not every character is going to fit precisely in one of the three types. Also, all three types are Truth in Television, which is why seeking therapy in Real Life is sadly so difficult: the people most in need tend to be the least equipped to be good mental health consumers â€” which is required to get the most out of therapy by knowing what kind of therapy you need and finding a therapist that is awesome (and not the first or second variants, or incredibly judgmental/unable to empathize with one's lived experience). Ending up with the awesome variant on the first try is often not possible even for the financially well off who can choose whomever they want, much less for someone just stuck with whomever their insurance/public assistance will pay for. This is one reason why some people might choose to go without therapy, even people with major disorders. Compare with Psychologist Teacher. Patients visiting The Shrink may well lie down on a Freudian Couch for therapy. A shrink who fights is a Warrior Therapist.
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The Shrink / int_109f7814	comment	John Watson's therapist, Ella Thompson, in Sherlock is not blatantly idiotic, but doesn't seem all that useful, believing that John's shaky hand and psychosomatic limp is because he's suffering from PTSD, when, in reality, it's the boredom of civilian life that is causing him depression. However, John at least seems to trust her enough to go back into therapy with her following Sherlock's (ostensible) death. On top of that, while she misdiagnoses the source of his problems, she does encourage him to write a blog about his life, providing the motivation for Watson documenting the rest of the series (much as the original character documented his experiences with Holmes for magazines). Ditto for Louise Mortimer in "The Hounds of Baskerville": while she genuinely cares about Henry Knight, she doesn't realize that the delusions she believes he's suffering from are caused by witnessing the brutal murder of his father and then being regularly dosed with an experimental psychotropic drug. In her defense, nobody would have reason to suspect that given it was all classified, and Sherlock himself wasn't thinking of it until he experienced the Hound as well.
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The Shrink / int_10b03dcf	comment	Dr. Penelope Young from Batman: Arkham Asylum has good intentions, but the experiments she performs â€” and which Fridge Horror indicates she intends to perform, given she thinks that her subjects would need a Psycho Serum like TITAN to survive them â€” are clearly less than benevolent. She is cool-headed and rational, yet her effects at treating or even diagnosing the patients at Arkham are absolutely useless. This is compounded by the fact she has a rather egregious case of Arbitrary Skepticism, which means she refuses to believe that, say, Killer Croc is a cannibal (despite this being a well-documented aspect of his behavior by the police â€” and him being a 15-foot-tall crocodile man) or that the Ratcatcher does have a borderline psychic ability to communicate with rats (then later demanding he remove the rats from the interview room). Admittedly, in this last case, metahumans are a rarity in Gotham, but at least three well-known cases â€” Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, and Clayface â€” are not only famous, but actually kept in Arkham. Summing up just how terrible she is at performing even a basic diagnosis; Dr. Young actually comes to the conclusion that Jonathon Crane, aka The Scarecrow, is harmless and would be a great asset to the TITAN project... as a researcher. Oh, and she later finds out that the whole project was funded by The Joker. For that matter, she thought Batman's "multiple disorders" were driven by, as detailed from bonus material in the collector's edition of the first game, genetic predisposition and substance abuse. It doesn't help she's getting her info from the inmates themselves. Although, she's wondering if the inmates are his real peer group, something Joker, Riddler, and Scarecrow believe as well.
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The Shrink / int_1133352a	comment	The Terminator movies have Dr. Silberman, who considers himself too sane to buy into Sarah's apocalyptic foreknowledge delusions.
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The Shrink / int_12300cc3	comment	Dr. Long in Watchmen â€” the psychiatrist who attempted to analyze Rorschach.
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The Shrink / int_1367cea0	comment	Dr. Jessica Yamada of Worm. Literally saves the world by talking Glastig Uaine all the way from going on an unstoppable rampage to being a hero. And she helps them all while secretly thinking of them as frightening inhuman monsters. Sequel Ward shows she's not perfect, but still a highly effective therapist who's under a lot of pressure.
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The Shrink / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit adds forensic psychiatrist and FBI profiler Dr. George Huang to the cast late in season 2. Dr. Huang's pretty awesome, though his observations do not go unchallenged.
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The Shrink / int_14f9297e	comment	A common gag in The Far Side. One of the more famous ones is a therapist who puts in one patient's notes, "Just plain NUTS!"
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The Shrink / int_16b97fcd	comment	Dr. Bob Hartley in The Bob Newhart Show. No matter how many breakthroughs they have, none of his patients ever seem to get any better.
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The Shrink / int_1c7b6907	comment	Kili, a shaman who is also a therapist, in The Dragon Doctors.
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The Shrink / int_1e9e2d34	comment	The Desert Storm: Ylar Kala is a Soul Healer (the Jediâ€™s version of a shrink) who has Ben as her patient after his TSR is identified. Sheâ€™s both patient and open-minded when talking with Ben about his past traumas, and does her best given the circumstances to help him recover.
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The Shrink / int_1f0bc3d3	comment	Professional Help, one of the stories from Hellboy: Weird Tales, has Roger telling a shrink about a particularly distressing case he worked involving a baby giant, Nazi Scientists, and a Black Metal cult. The shrink turns out to be an evil spirit that feeds on mental anguish. Of course, Roger knew this the whole time and quickly dispatches it, but he was hoping to get some closure while he was at it.
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The Shrink / int_20191a57	comment	Bleak Expectations: In series 3, Pip Bin becomes a reclusive miser due to a prolonged period of torture mixed with his family being utterly useless and completely lacking in sympathy. While there, he's visited by a Caduceus Harshsmacker, who deliberately plays on Pip's fear of cheese, and turns out to be working for Mr. Benevolent to scam Pip into giving up all his money. In series 4, Harry Biscuit and Pippa Bin go to a counsellor due to a rift in their marriage brought on by Pippa turning evil. Since this is a demented parody of Victorian England, the minute Harry tries speaking, he's shouted down because as a man, he must feel nothing, and when Pippa tries, she's shouted down because she's a woman.
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The Shrink / int_202462bc	comment	Dr. Lee Rosen of Alphas, who is also arguably the main character.
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The Shrink / int_22211d68	comment	Dr. Sweets on Bones, and before him Stephen Fry as Dr. "Gordon Gordon" Wyatt. Both are treated as the Ineffectual Shrink at first but ultimately prove to be very helpful.
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The Shrink / int_2275c659	comment	House's Season 6 gives Dr. Darryl Nolan, House's psychotherapist manager when he goes to rehab. On the one hand, he actually violates so many therapeutic heuristics (ex. don't judge your patient, and picking up a newspaper and ignoring him may make for dramatic effect or comedy) and thus may seem like he would not do a good job to anyone. On the other hand, he has shown this attitude mainly with House, who upon his first days at the rehab, he began psychologically harassing everyone else. As such, one could see Dr. Nolan giving House a taste of his own medicine and indeed, it did look like Dr. Nolan did set House on a better path, at least for a while. Anyone capable of winning against House and getting that concession deserves recognition in of itself.
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The Shrink / int_230ec9cf	comment	Dr. Foster from Skins is a particularly extreme example.
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The Shrink / int_24e41891	comment	In Dexter, Dr. Emmett Meridian is a psychiatrist who subtly manipulates his patients, all women, and convinces them to kill themselves. Of course, Dexter signs up for a session with him to get closer and finds himself revealing more about himself than he initially intended.
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The Shrink / int_261c8d3f	comment	Dr. Marvin Monroe of The Simpsons.
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The Shrink / int_28508de	comment	In Winx Club the Trix were hauled off to what basically was a criminal asylum after the first season ending. While the treatment usually works, the only thing they did to the Trix was to traumatize them into being even worse out of spite (to be fair, it looked more like brainwashing by overdose of extremely cute things than a legitimate medical treatment, and the Trix simply hate cute things).
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The Shrink / int_2a5c36b5	comment	Animal Behaviour takes place at a group therapy session for Civilized Animals run by Dr. Leonard Clement, a therapist who happens to be a dog. His patients all respect him except for newcomer Victor the ape, until Dr. Clement helps Victor have a breakthrough regarding his anger management issues.
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The Shrink / int_2b1bc65a	comment	Mary Russell's psychiatrist in the backstory; Mary uses the coping skills she learned from Dr. Ginzberg to deal with her own guilt and trauma throughout the series, help a traumatised child, and restore the memories of a witness.
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The Shrink / int_2da220be	comment	In the John Finnemore's Double Acts episode "A Flock of Tigers", a psychologist on her way to a conference meets a man on a train who just cannot imagine fictional things and cures him within the space of half an hour, without him asking or even realising it.
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The Shrink / int_2e80e66f	comment	A Diplomatic Visit: Discussed in the first chapter of the fourth story, The Diplomat's Life. Several have tried to treat Cozy Glow who was arrested as a threat to Equestria and currently resides in a cell under Canterlot Castle, but been unsuccessful and given up because she's just that bad.
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The Shrink / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard: Q assumes the identity of one (complete with goofy Viennese accent) with the goal of undermining RenÃ©e Picard's confidence and preventing her from flying her mission.
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The Shrink / int_2fa5aee6	comment	Dr. Lowenstein from The Prince of Tides.
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The Shrink / int_30940081	comment	Michael's shrink in Grand Theft Auto V is not "evil" so much as he is greedy, condescending, and utterly uninterested in truly helping Michael and his family.
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The Shrink / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent: Reynir awoke to his mage powers after ending up Little Stowaway to an expedition in a Forbidden Zone. It just so happens that The Medic Mikkel, who is basically the team therapist by default, is a Flat-Earth Atheist and Religion is Magic is one of the reasons Reynir has powers in the first place. The setting includes ghosts that are only visible to mages and capable of sucking the life out of human beings. The expedition including another mage and Reynir's own slowly developing powers are the only reasons the crew has yet to have any casualty by them. One of the stronger ones heavily implied that if Reynir returned home, it would follow Reynir there and kill all his loved ones. Meanwhile, Mikkel looks exasperated if Reynir mentions ghosts and calls Reynir's attempts at protective runes "decoration", all while otherwise genuinely caring about everyone's well-being, both physical and psychological. After the aforementioned threat to his family, Reynir resorts to using one of the two mages he can contact via Talking in Your Dreams as a sounding board, despite actually not knowing him that well (the one he's actually travelling with dislikes him, has No Social Skills, and doesn't speak his language in the waking world).
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The Shrink / int_3127e38	comment	Continued in The Newsroom with Will MacAvoy's therapist Jack Habib, played by David Krumholtz.
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The Shrink / int_32233a78	comment	Dr Wahnsinnig in Ozy and Millie would probably be the Awesome Shrink if left to her own devices, but the constraints of the school system mean that she's Well-Meaning But Ineffective, although not dopey, spending most of her time having to accept Blatant Lies from The Bully and the Alpha Bitch, while unable to help their victims.
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The Shrink / int_338a10f7	comment	A Flower's Touch: Aerith is assigned a therapist, who starts off as leaning toward the well-meaning but ineffectual side to gradually becoming more effective as time goes on, seemingly learning from causing a major breakdown, as she learns just what kind of case she has on her hand with not just one, but two lives worth of trauma.
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The Shrink / int_33fdae4d	comment	Dr. Edna from Season 4 of Mad Men. She manages to be awesome for Sally (her actual patient) and more stealthily for Betty, who was the victim of a Harmful Shrink in Season 1.
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The Shrink / int_34a70b48	comment	Dr. Chase Meridian in Batman Forever, played by Nicole Kidman, is a very rare example of a heroic psychiatrist.
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The Shrink / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck saw a therapist at least twice â€” both turned out to be Quackerjack in disguise, using it as a ploy to mess with his head.
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The Shrink / int_3583b777	comment	Dr. Edward Roivas of Eternal Darkness. Quickly opens up to the prospect of Eldritch Abominations trying to destroy the human race and sets into motion a series of events to get his granddaughter to successfully learn about and stop them. Not even dying keeps him at bay.
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The Shrink / int_367fab9a	comment	Tony Hill from Wire in the Blood is an awesome psychologist. Though most of his screen time is devoted to second guessing criminals, rather than curing people. He's so good one crazy hoodoo doctor was convinced that Tony was a witchdoctor too, and the ending suggests they died from hallucinating a swarm of flies suffocating them. And sometimes it appears he might not be quite right himself.
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The Shrink / int_3790ae45	comment	Double Homework: Mr. Adler pretty much spent the whole springtime trying to convince the protagonist that the life outside his room was worth living. He failed, needless to say. Subverted with Dr. Mosely. While she succeeds where Mr. Adler failed, and conducts counseling sessions with the student in her summer school program, she isnâ€™t really a school counselor. She has an entirely different agendaâ€¦
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Double Homework (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_3790ae45
The Shrink / int_38f1727d	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_38f1727d	comment	Dr. Linda Martin in Lucifer tends to have the right idea about what actually troubles the other characters and what would actually help them (getting them to listen to her is another thing, though), and is just generally arguably the most ethical and well-adjusted person on the show.
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Lucifer	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_38f1727d
The Shrink / int_3a7f5b49	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_3a7f5b49	comment	Alice: Madness Returns offers Dr. Angus Bumby, whose 'therapy' consists of getting his patients to forget their pasts so he can use them as child prostitutes. He also burns down the protagonist's house to cover his tracks after raping her sister. His Karmic Death is justified.
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Alice: Madness Returns (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_3a7f5b49
The Shrink / int_3c88ab29	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_3c88ab29	comment	Dr. Samantha Kohl in Raines. Anyone capable of making any progress with someone like Raines has to qualify as an awesome shrink.
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Raines	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_3c88ab29
The Shrink / int_3e5de40b	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_3e5de40b	comment	Dr. Molly Clock in Scrubs. Oddly, she's rather quirky herself. Or Dr. Cox's shrink from "His Story". Dr Hendrick, Sacred Heart's grief counselor, is portrayed as a great counselor, but is nonetheless seen as smug and annoying by the main characters, even when it's them he's helping.
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Scrubs	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_3e5de40b
The Shrink / int_3f3abe9	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_3f3abe9	comment	Dr. Wong from Rick and Morty is an insightful therapist who's able to fully analyze the eccentric and self-destructive persona of Rick and explains how he and his family can improve from their chaotic behavior. Summer and Morty genuinely appreciated her counseling after their first session. Beth and Jerry ended up turning her into a pseudo marriage councilor after they got back together. And most surprising of all, Rick actually started to appreciate her advice in season 6.
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Rick and Morty	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_3f3abe9
The Shrink / int_41963414	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_41963414	comment	"Dr. Davidson" in The War Against the Chtorr is able to help the series' very messed up protagonist James McCarthy. Davidson has a "condition" that leads him to conduct all sessions remotely; it's even possible he's some form of AI.
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The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_41963414
The Shrink / int_41b0198a	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_41b0198a	comment	In The Dresden Files' Ghost Story, ectomancer (a man who can speak to spirits and have control over them) Mortimer Lindquist is this for the ghosts of those who died. He helps them deal with what is holding them back so they can move on. Those who cannot move on, he helps to control themselves and not become dangerous creatures.
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The Dresden Files	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_41b0198a
The Shrink / int_4421ec94	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_4421ec94	comment	The Amy Virus: When Cyan starts having trouble focusing in class and her grades start to slip, she decides to set up regular appointments with the school psychologist, Dr. Ngo, to help figure out what's going on. He becomes a big confidant of hers and he's the one who helps her realize that the autism her parents supposedly "cured" her of as a preschooler with a quack diet has never gone away. Cyan's friend Renate is a former bulimic, so she sees a Eating Disorder therapist once a month to guarentee she won't relapse back into it.
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The Amy Virus	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_4421ec94
The Shrink / int_486477f0	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_486477f0	comment	In The Dead Center, Dr. Forrester is shown to have a kind heart and is very competent at psychiatry. On the other hand, he will resort to breaking the law to get his patients the care he thinks they needs. It puts a strain on his professional relationships, and it's shown that outside of work, he's an emotionally-withdrawn loner. He admits the catatonic John Doe into the ward because he knows that such a patient would likely get dumped in a corner somewhere and be forgotten. He does this without doing any consent paperwork or even running it by Dr. Gray â€” his boss â€” who had just told him that all his cases had to be approved by her. This is illegal, and ends up coming back to haunt him. While he figures out what's really going on with John Doe pretty quickly, he had to resort to secretly hypnotizing and drugging him to make it happen. Dr. Gray is furious when she finds out what's been going on. It's not just about the personal betrayal, but the professional fallout. She's completely right to think that Dr. Forrester basically kidnapped, drugged, and assaulted a helpless patient. Had the whole Demonic Possession situation not happened, John Doe's family could've easily sued the hospital.
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The Dead Center	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_486477f0
The Shrink / int_4885590d	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_4885590d	comment	Forever Knight had yet another therapist who hypnotized her patients into committing homicide. (The painting of Bedlam in her waiting room was a tip-off something was wrong.)
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Forever Knight	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_4885590d
The Shrink / int_498b77e9	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_498b77e9	comment	Tip from Skin Horse is a psychologist who tends to be well-intentioned, but a little too reliant on therapy puppets and self-help books. And he's been known to storm out after insults to his fashion sense. It's stated in-universe that Tip is a psychologist, not a therapist. It's like going to a Doctor with a PhD in biology instead of a Medical Doctor. They know the general idea on how to treat it, but not the exact details.
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Skin Horse (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_498b77e9
The Shrink / int_499099fe	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_499099fe	comment	Sophie in Shortbus is a "couples counselor" who doesn't like it when people call her a "sex therapist" (who, ironically herself, can't have an orgasm).
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Shortbus	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_499099fe
The Shrink / int_499abd5e	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_499abd5e	comment	Dr. Berger in Ordinary People. Judd Hirsch's portrayal of him in the film adaptation has been cited by Psychology Today as one of the most positive portrayals of the psychiatric profession on film.
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Ordinary People	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_499abd5e
The Shrink / int_4b099f6d	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_4b099f6d	comment	Professor Mmaa's Lecture has Dr. Sigismund Kraft-Durchfreud, a termite caricature of Dr. Freud. He is a genuinely competent doctor, if not exactly an "awesome" one.
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Professor Mmaa's Lecture	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_4b099f6d
The Shrink / int_4da4f20	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_4da4f20	comment	Dream Park has a rare example of the Harmful Shrink as one of the good guys. Dr. Vail, psychologist for Dream Park in The Barsoom Project, lacks empathy and is willing to risk others' sanity in order to protect the Park (because where else would he have absolute control of subjects' experiences?). Be very glad that he's on the hero's side, because what he does to the villains in the end ain't pretty...
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Dream Park	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_4da4f20
The Shrink / int_4e7cac32	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_4e7cac32	comment	In Supergirl (2015) fic Survivors, Dr. Jessica Ryan, Kara Danvers's therapist is determined and patient and does her best to help Kara come to terms with her Survivor Guilt, PTSD... issues.
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Supergirl (2015)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_4e7cac32
The Shrink / int_4fbd1be5	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_4fbd1be5	comment	The Suitcase Kid: Andy goes to see a family counsellor with her parents a few times throughout the book, whose role is to mediate between Andy's parents (which they definitely need) and decide how they can best support Andy through their divorce. Although Andy is reluctant to open up to her and finds her condescending, she's well-intentioned; she manages to negotiate for Andy to alternate weeks at each parents' house rather than forcing Andy to choose and tries to explain to them how difficult the divorce is for Andy.
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The Suitcase Kid	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_4fbd1be5
The Shrink / int_4ff41a9c	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_4ff41a9c	comment	Dr. Caitlin Flanders, in Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, mostly manages to help Samantha Shepard through her issues. She also assists Jackie and Sarah. In-Universe the reason this works is due to her extensive training in both psychology and psychiatry paying off (including handling non-Human sapient species). She does note, however, that certain situations do exceed what she was educated in.
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Origins (Fanfic)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_4ff41a9c
The Shrink / int_5123c0d2	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_5123c0d2	comment	Sunny Randall has a case involving a shrink thatâ€¦ wellâ€¦ He convinces his 'clients' that their "issues" are based on trust issues, so what they need to do is trust him, by letting him drug and 'seduce' them. Yeah. (Sunny herself sets up sessions with a different shrink to help with her research to try to catch the scumbag, in a "compare and contrast" way â€” to make sure something is going on â€” and ends up with a bonus of actually working through some of her own personal relationship issues regarding her ex-husband.)
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Sunny Randall	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_5123c0d2
The Shrink / int_51bd3e35	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_51bd3e35	comment	Major Grace Pedersen, the Australian Army psychiatrist serving with the ISAF medical unit in Combat Hospital.
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Combat Hospital	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_51bd3e35
The Shrink / int_53dfb939	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_53dfb939	comment	Manifestation: Dr. Patricia Caldwell, the psychiatrist Gabby Palladino visits throughout the book.
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Manifestation	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_53dfb939
The Shrink / int_5541e604	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_5541e604	comment	Dr. Rook, the jailhouse shrink in One Touch of Venus, is not as harmful as the police lieutenant wants him to be, but still somewhat hostile and a little insane.
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One Touch of Venus (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_5541e604
The Shrink / int_569093cc	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_569093cc	comment	In season 2 of DuckTales (2017), we get Mr. Jones who's revealed to be Donald's anger management counselor. While Jones is only a minor character, his significance comes from how he deconstructs the reasoning behind Donald's anger while also helping him channel his Hair-Trigger Temper into protective instincts after he became Huey, Dewey and Louie's new guardian.
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DuckTales (2017)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_569093cc
The Shrink / int_5822abdd	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_5822abdd	comment	Counselor Alice Tolman from Legostar Galactica is generally Dopey And Ineffective, with her own myriad host of personal issues getting in the way of being a helpful therapist, but she has pulled off the occasional Awesome move, like helping Larry find a non-destructive outlet for his innate Blood Lust.
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Legostar Galactica (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_5822abdd
The Shrink / int_585e5c2e	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_585e5c2e	comment	M.F.A.: After being raped, Noelle visits the college counselor, who seems sympathetic and understanding. However, she has a hidden agenda of dissuading girls from officially reporting attacks so the college can maintain its record of having no sexual assaults on campus.
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M.F.A.	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_585e5c2e
The Shrink / int_59735062	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_59735062	comment	Dr. Delara Auzenne from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is well-meaning and compassionate towards Task Force 29 staff she is in charge of psychologically examining and providing counsel to. She never loses her cool or professional attitude when Adam treats her with obvious distrust and snarkiness, and often voices concerns over the well-being of him and other agents. She is revealed to be a high-ranking Illuminati member who currently serves as The Mole assigned to monitoring Adam Jensen and reporting directly to Big Bad Lucius DeBeers, and might also have been involved in tampering with Jensen's memory.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_59735062
The Shrink / int_5cf17ede	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_5cf17ede	comment	The therapist in Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh. While it's good to see a horror game avert There Are No Therapists, she's extremely useless around a patient who obviously needs a lot of help working through his issues.
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Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_5cf17ede
The Shrink / int_5d3af8f7	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_5d3af8f7	comment	Miss Phelps in Luann. As the high school guidance counselor, she's regularly described as inept, by both Word of God as well as the other characters. After the cast graduates, she becomes a therapist and is shown as being just as terrible at that job.
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Luann (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_5d3af8f7
The Shrink / int_62570927	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_62570927	comment	Dr Ashley Kafka, also of the Marvel Universe and specifically Spider-Man. The Ravencroft Institute she founded feels like the writers were making a specific attempt to avert Bedlam House. It didn't last, because subsequent writers assumed that a mental institute filled with supervillains had to be Arkham in all but name — the Ruins of Ravencroft miniseries in particular given it a horrific history that more than rivals Armadeus Arkham's story, though it has since been reformed, and Kafka remains a skilled and concerned therapist.
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Marvel Universe (Franchise)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_62570927
The Shrink / int_625e571	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_625e571	comment	In an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, there was a psychiatrist that manipulated his patients into investing stock for another patient of his. He even managed to manipulate one into killing himself. Another one had a therapist who gave a paranoid but harmless man a form of "therapy" that basically amounted to torture, turning him into a homicidal psychotic.
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_625e571
The Shrink / int_628b342c	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_628b342c	comment	Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink, at best, has a mixed track record. For example, he helped Captain Omnipotent get over his perfectionist overachiever tendencies due to his underlying survivor's guilt, but then the Captain ended up being oblivious and indifferent to everything around him as a result.
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Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_628b342c
The Shrink / int_64c61455	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_64c61455	comment	Miracle on 34th Street uses one as an antagonist in the original film and most of its remakes. In the original, Sawyer isn't actually licensed to do anything except handle employment screenings, but he uses his office to practice psychiatry anyway. He immediately hates Kris because the man starts pointing out all of Sawyer's issues during the screening and tries to get Kris fired. When that fails, he basically starts tormenting Alfred the janitor by conducting off-the-books psychiatric sessions with him and filling his head with any number of false diagnoses. Kris confronts Sawyer over it and in the process thumps him on the head with his caneâ€¦ leading to Sawyer finally having the leverage he needs to get Kris committed to Bellevue, thus allowing him to try and conceal his fraudulent practices from his employer.
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Miracle on 34th Street	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_64c61455
The Shrink / int_660a8ba0	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_660a8ba0	comment	Mr Nutt, polymath genius in Unseen Academicals, heroically psychoanalyses himself.
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Unseen Academicals	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_660a8ba0
The Shrink / int_66fd198d	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_66fd198d	comment	In The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Crown occasionally attends sessions with a psychologist (played by Faye Dunaway) who holds him in open scorn and repeatedly laughs in his face when he bares his innermost feelings to her.
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_66fd198d
The Shrink / int_6a8d182d	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_6a8d182d	comment	Susan Silverman in the Spenser series comments on "crazies" and "nuts" occasionally when discussing her job with the title character, but is otherwise portrayed as extremely caring and dedicated to her clients.
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Spenser	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_6a8d182d
The Shrink / int_6c9193a1	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Brothers: In a flashback, young Rusty Venture attempts to talk about his problems of being a boy adventurer to his father, Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. (who is acting as his therapist at the time), but the man is completely absent for the session, even sneaking back in and pretending to have been present the whole time while his son talks. Even worse, Jonas dismisses Rusty's problems, calling him ungrateful for all the opportunities he's been presented and blaming his father for his problems. Needless to say, this soured Rusty's perception of therapy later in life.
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TheVentureBrothers	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_6c9193a1
The Shrink / int_6cbc542e	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_6cbc542e	comment	Dr. Kauffman in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. He may be quite cynical and confrontational at times, but it's all for the patient's own good in the end.
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_6cbc542e
The Shrink / int_6f7c29bc	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_6f7c29bc	comment	Karev's friend in Shaman of the Undead is, besides a psychologist in the Muggle world, the "oblivion sower", meaning he can literally erase other people's memories and manipulate them to his wish. Oh, and he turns out to be the Big Bad of the books, being the person who turned Karev into the Mirror Demon.
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Shaman of the Undead	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_6f7c29bc
The Shrink / int_71101323	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_71101323	comment	A major theme in Erica Jong's Fear of Flying.
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Fear of Flying	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_71101323
The Shrink / int_73d7930f	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_73d7930f	comment	Ezri Dax in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She starts out not being that good, but she figures out how to treat Garak's claustrophobia before the end of the episode. Granted, she has a huge amount of issues herself (not least having very recently gained an entirely new second personality with numerous lifetimes of experience in addition to her own), on top of having been in training just a few weeks before her transfer.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_73d7930f
The Shrink / int_75f21786	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_75f21786	comment	In Good Will Hunting, one of the major characters is the Awesome Shrink (played by Robin Williams).
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Good Will Hunting	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_75f21786
The Shrink / int_76580c92	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_76580c92	comment	Kiley in MÃ©nage Ã 3 is only a student, not a qualified therapist â€” but she nonetheless takes it upon herself to act as a shrink to several other members of the cast. She then sometimes achieves awesome (if risky) results (her use of an Armor-Piercing Question on Sonya was a little mean, and her relationships with Matt and DiDi were totally unprofessional), though at other times she veers toward "Dopey And Ineffective".
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Ménage à 3 (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_76580c92
The Shrink / int_7668653a	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2 brings us Yeoman Kelly Chambers, the de-facto ship's shrink on the Normandy. She has all the training and background to be a psychologist, and is very compassionate towards just about everyone. Her actual position aboard the ship is closer to The Profiler, giving Shepard advice on how to best deal with his varied teammates, and she is also assigned as Shepard's personal assistant.
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Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_7668653a
The Shrink / int_7668653b	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3 reveals that while she was aboard the Normandy, she was keeping her boss, The Illusive Man, informed with updated psychological profiles on Shepard to better allow Cerberus to manipulate him/her towards their goals. She is in such a bad emotional state after the events of the second game, that if you get angry at her over it, she will be Driven to Suicide.
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The Shrink / int_7670db44	comment	Ghosts of Evangelion: Dr. Okada was Shinji and Asuka's therapist for several years after Third Impact. He is actually efficient and good at his job.
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The Shrink / int_76b09d48	comment	Dr. Jack Mickler in Don Juan DeMarco. Compassionate, competent, and knows when to leave well enough alone. Johnny couldn't have found a better replacement father.
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The Shrink / int_791fca45	comment	The villain in BioShock 2 is Dr. Sofia Lamb, a brilliant psychiatrist who believes Utopia Justifies the Means. She uses her skills to manipulate patients and the entire city of Rapture into becoming part of the "Rapture Family," which is just an elaborate ruse designed to obscure the fact that she's using the inhabitants to further her crazy agenda.
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The Shrink / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: Mass Effect 2 brings us Yeoman Kelly Chambers, the de-facto ship's shrink on the Normandy. She has all the training and background to be a psychologist, and is very compassionate towards just about everyone. Her actual position aboard the ship is closer to The Profiler, giving Shepard advice on how to best deal with his varied teammates, and she is also assigned as Shepard's personal assistant. Mass Effect 3 reveals that while she was aboard the Normandy, she was keeping her boss, The Illusive Man, informed with updated psychological profiles on Shepard to better allow Cerberus to manipulate him/her towards their goals. She is in such a bad emotional state after the events of the second game, that if you get angry at her over it, she will be Driven to Suicide. Mass Effect: Andromeda has Dr. Lexi T'Perro, the Tempest's resident sawbones, who has some psychiatric training. She's also got a poor bedside manner, difficulty socializing, and most of the crew do what they can to avoid her. Fortunately, Ryder's crew are (relatively) sane and don't require psychiatric servicesâ€¦ except for Peebee. When Lexi tries talking to her if Ryder kills Peebee's abusive ex-girlfriend, Peebee angrily rebuffs her, and Lexi asks Ryder to try in her stead.
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The Shrink / int_7a084b17	comment	In There's Something About Mary, Ben Stiller's character is intently talking to a psychiatrist who is paying no attention at all, then hears a couple of words out of context and makes a pat diagnosis of latent homosexuality.
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The Shrink / int_7be40377	comment	Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in addition to being a psychiatrist, is also a cannibal and Serial Killer.
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The Shrink / int_7c0f1317	comment	Dr Myra Lark in "You Don't Have To Be Mad..." and other Diogenes Club stories by Kim Newman. Described in the character sheet of Secret Files of the Diogenes Club as more interested in the uses of the mentally disturbed than in curing them. Also her superior in "You Don't Have To Be Mad..." Dr I. M. Ballance.
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The Shrink / int_7c4f1adb	comment	Our Miss Brooks: In "The School Board Psychologist", the psychologist is well-meaning but overworked and dangerously incompetent. He recommends that Mr. Conklin, Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton are all psychologically unfit to work at the school and should be immediately dismissed.
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The Shrink / int_7d06ab06	comment	Dr. Minerva, Craig's therapist in It's Kind of a Funny Story.
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The Shrink / int_7dc2739	comment	In Something Wicked, Brittany Murphy plays her last role as one for the main character, her sister-in-law. She does manage to figure out she's the real villain who's manipulating everyone, but not soon enough for it to matter.
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The Shrink / int_7dea636c	comment	Doctor Angstrom in Broodhollow mostly seems to be the sensible, intelligent, good-advice variety, though he has been known to rename psychology terms so he can say he discovered them.
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The Shrink / int_80eeaaf2	comment	Dr. Gardevoir serves as the only psychiatrist to a world inhabited by video game characters. She's seen to be calmly dealing with a Creeper repeatedly exploding but dreads being in the same room as Ellis. She also seems to have given herself a Split Personality when trying self-therapy.
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The Shrink / int_80fd41f1	comment	Rivers from The Regeneration Trilogy is tirelessly kind and patient with the Shell Shocked Veterans he helps to come to terms with their war experiences. Rivers' friend Henry Head is also suggested to be one of these along with some of the other doctors at Craiglockhart.
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The Shrink / int_8125b468	comment	Batman: Dr Jeremiah Arkham was originally created by Alan Grant as a B. F. Skinner type who believed in "controlling" his charges, then shifting to a touchy-feely shrink who let them wear their costumes if it made them feel better, before going through a period where he was a costumed villain himself. Dr Joy in Arkham City: The Order of the World was a well-meaning and possibly even effective shrink, until she became the only Arkham employee to survive its destruction. She is now so determined to help at least one of her charges that she ends up letting Ten-Eyed-Man stay with her, and gradually begins going along with his delusions, to the point where other former Arkham patients she speaks to are worried about her.
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The Shrink / int_81f9d9f5	comment	A very, very common setting for The New Yorker magazine cartoons. A typical example shows a guy at home saying to his parakeet, "You came up in therapy today."
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The Shrink / int_82052bcd	comment	Wars of the Realm: As soon as anyone finds out that Drew can see angels and demons, they of course assume that he's insane. This leads to him being forced to see not one but two psychologists—Dr. Fisher, a highly condescending and narrow-minded Harmful Shrink, and Dr. Whitton, a much more understanding doctor who's still more of the dopey-and-ineffective type (even though he is kind, understanding, and empathetic, he manages to convince Drew that he's schizophrenic, even though he really is seeing angels and demons).
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The Shrink / int_833ad429	comment	A psychologist analyzes the protagonist of Daughter for Dessert. She badly screws up, not realizing that his "childhood memories" that he tells her are obvious BS. Sheâ€™s a little off as well, given that she walks into the diner with no intention of ordering anything.
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The Shrink / int_84611843	comment	Dr. Hilarius in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. Prescribes and takes massive doses of LSD. Has other issues as well.
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The Shrink / int_84809b33	comment	One of the main villains in L.A. Noire, Dr. Harlan Fontaine, is shown to be a brilliant psychologist and "doctor to the stars". However, when one of Dr. Fontaine's students, Courtney Sheldon, is in a fix and wondering what to do with some military surplus morphine, Fontaine says he'll take the morphine off his hands, and of course, he gives the money he receives from it to a corrupt conspiracy that has people burning down housing estates to collect the insurance money. He also manipulates an ex-patient to burn down two families' houses, forcing them to sell their land.
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The Shrink / int_876c7452	comment	We can also assume that Abby Jacobs, Dan Rydell's shrink from Sports Night, was going to continue being awesome if the show had survived.
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The Shrink / int_892aa56a	comment	Dr Julia Ogden becomes this from Season 5 of Murdoch Mysteries, having previously had an interest in psychology but mostly been The Coroner.
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The Shrink / int_8a836c90	comment	The Walking Dead (2010), for a grand total of one episode, gives us Eastman, a former prison psychiatrist. It is through his help and teachings of Aikido that Morgan, who was extremely unhinged at the time, was able to find inner peace and become the badass Martial Pacifist he is as of Season 6. At first, he captures Morgan and keeps the man in a cage, snarking on occasion and trying to converse with him. The cage wasn't even locked! As time goes on, Morgan slowly begins to calm down as Eastman continually dissuades his "Clear" mindset. Unfortunately for Morgan, Eastman gets bitten when Morgan freezes up at the walker that he had killed coming for him. While it's never really mentioned beyond her first appearance, Denise was also a psychiatrist. This allows her to get through to the Wolf when she's held hostage by him, at the very least managing to get him to do a Heelâ€“Face Turn and save her when Alexandria is overrun. Later on, she tries to give an inspiring speech to Daryl and Rosita to push them to better their personal lives, before being unceremoniously shot through the eye... by Dwight... with Daryl's crossbow.
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The Shrink / int_8d814070	comment	Major Sidney Freedman, a recurring psychiatrist character on MASH. The "best TV shrink ever", according to Psychology Today.*
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The Shrink / int_8d81f086	comment	Both of Adrian Monk's shrinks in Monk are awesome. Dr. Kroger always has advice that's relevant and helpful. Granted, Monk isn't always very good at following that advice, but still. Dr. Bell, Monk's shrink beginning in season 7, is equally awesome.
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The Shrink / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House story What You Wish For, there is Dr. Matthews, who comes over to help Lori when the rest think Lincoln doesn't exist. He's not helpful, but he's no more than a nuisance.
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The Shrink / int_906468ac	comment	For a couple of years in Dykes to Watch Out For, Mo saw a shrink named Anya whom she adored. Therapy has also been a Running Gag throughout the strip, referencing how near-obligatory therapy seems to be for lesbians, and Sparrow in particular was a full fledged therapy junkie for about the first 10 years (even showing her entering couple therapy with her girlfriend of three months. There was also a character appearing on the calendars (but not in the strip, aside from her initial appearance in a really early strip) named Cleo Baldshein, a "guerrilla therapist".
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The Shrink / int_90b916ba	comment	Arkham's head psychiatrist Dr. Bartholomew genuinely wants to help, as is demonstrated in the Batman: TAS episode "Dreams in Darkness". But he's naive at bestâ€¦
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The Shrink / int_932dba19	comment	Dr. Wang in The Stalking Zuko Series is an effective therapist who immediately figures out Jet. He forces Jet to reflect on why he's accusing "Lee" of being a Fire Nation spy and points out that his theory has no evidence and almost gets Jet to perform a Heel Realization. But Dr. Wang ends up being ineffective due to Jet's denial of his own issues, Jet being forced into therapy by Lee and Smellerbee, and Jet's self-reflection making him realize that he has evidence for "Mushi" being a firebender as opposed to "Lee".
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The Shrink / int_95124432	comment	The Bad Seed has a non-professional example in Monica Breedlove. A fan of Freudian psychology, she likes to psychoanalyze people for fun; she diagnosed her gardener as a paranoid schizophrenic and herself as loving her brother. Despite how much knowledge she has about psychology and human nature, her arrogance and constant talking blind her from being able to apply it in a real situation, and she is unable to see the chaos that is going on right under her nose.
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The Shrink / int_961f4440	comment	In I Am the Cheese, the main character spends every other chapter or so relating his life experiences to a psychologist at a sanitarium.
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The Shrink / int_972b9921	comment	Lux-Pain therapist, Honoka Hino, is a psychiatrist in addition to the school's nurse. She does seem to successfully counsel a few people, like Takuya Inoue. However, later in the game, she is infected by a mental parasite after Hibiki Kiryu goes into a coma, and wonders if he'll ever wake up. She reveals she also used to counsel a terminally ill girl who asked her to smile, then died. If you don't remove the parasite, she snaps, goes into the hospital and kills him, then is gunned down mercilessly by the police. She ends up needing more therapy than practically anyone in the game. And that's saying a lot.
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The Shrink / int_97a95fc8	comment	On Sisters, middle sister Georgie begins seeing a shrink to help her deal with her anxiety and depression. During a session, he asks her if she's ever been sexually abused, as it's often a cause of the symptoms she's experiencing. She denies it, but that very night, she has a flashback of her father touching her inappropriately. Within weeks, she's not only certain that her father repeatedly molested her, she accuses her mother of turning a blind eye to it, her sisters of being in denial when they repeatedly deny being abused themselves, and her husband of being unsupportive, cutting them all out of her life, all with her psychologist's encouragement. He soon seduces her under the pretext of curing her of the Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality she's developed because of her memories and they embark on an affair, only for him to cruelly dump her when she leaves her husband for him, telling her that it meant nothing to him. Completely discombobulated from this, she's even moreso upon watching her youngest sister Charlie, a doctor, examine her son and suddenly realizes that the flashback that started everything was of her father examining her as well (he was a doctor, too). She's horrified to realize that the entire thing was a ploy by her therapist to isolate her from her loved ones and get her into bed. Her attempts at filing a complaint are futile, but he's caught when Charlie goes to see him and he eventually tries to do the same thing to her.
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The Shrink / int_98706c75	comment	Morty Storkowitz on Birdz does a good job in taming Mr. Nuthatch. In the course of 13 episodes, Mr. Nuthatch goes from a nervous-wreck coward to being much more confident (though still eccentric). There's even a slight role reversal as Mr. Nuthatch ends up convincing Morty that he shouldn't be afraid to sing.
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The Shrink / int_98c7a9df	comment	In "Death" from Hoops, Dr. Brooks is called in to Lenwood High as a grief counselor following two deaths in quick succession: first that of the school's former basketball coach and then of a delivery guy who gets set on fire by a candle trying to deliver food to Ben at Lamonte's funeral. Unfortunately for her, she's not able to do her job because she ends up spending most of her time at the school having to listen to tales of the messed-up personal lives of the school's adult staff. Then, when she does get some actual students in her office, they admit they were only there to waste some time once the last bell of the day rings. At the end of the episode, she is herself killed by another delivery guy trying to get food to Ben.
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The Shrink / int_9aff348f	comment	In the musical Lady in the Dark, Dr. Alexander Brooks analyzes Liza Elliott's musical Dream Sequences and discovers the roots of her nervous disorder in her childhood memories.
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The Shrink / int_9c615a34	comment	Doctor Gordon in The Bell Jar is the "Harmful" type. He behaves indifferent and cold to Esther in her therapy sessions and ultimately botches electroshock therapy, giving her a traumatic fear of the procedure. He is based on the author's real-life experiences. Doctor Nolan, however, is much better, administering electroshock therapy properly and helping Esther recover.
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The Shrink / int_9c78f706	comment	Parker in Marty Pants is a classmate of Marty's with aspirations of being a real psychiatrist, with Marty being her favourite subject.
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The Shrink / int_9cafbac	comment	Dr. Gibbon in The Singing Detective, an outstanding example in that he forces Marlowe to confront the fact that his problems are not with the world, but with his own feelings of guilt and self-loathing about something he did when he was a child, which he shouldn't go on beating himself up about.
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The Shrink / int_9d255c2	comment	In Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle, Shilo Norman's therapist Dr. Dezard is, as the name suggests, really Desaad, whose "therapy" is actually priming people to be hosts for the Anti-Life Equation.
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The Shrink / int_9dbc31cb	comment	One particularly shining example was the annoying straw-liberal one in The Dark Knight Returns who declared the Joker to be cured and released him from Arkham on live TV. The Joker responded by gassing everyone in the studio, shrink included, with his laughing gas.
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The Shrink / int_a32b6a64	comment	Stanley Keyworth in The West Wing is probably the best example of this. He is called in by Leo to meet with Josh, who is very resistant to the idea, and tries to deflect the difficult questions asked of him with anger and snarkiness. Stanley is not at all fazed by his aggression, and eventually pushes Josh into admitting that he didn't cut his hand on a glass, but instead broke a window in his apartment while having a flashback to the shooting. Josh is diagnosed with PTSD, and Stanley makes it very clear that he is not "cured" and requires much more treatment. Two years later, when the White House is shot at, Donna expresses concern over Josh's mental health and calls Stanley, telling Josh that he's on the line if he needs to talk to him (implying that while Josh's disorder is under control, it is not completely gone from his life, and is something that he still occasionally struggles with).
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The Shrink / int_a46c9a7a	comment	Charles Xavier in the X-Men franchise, at least by repute. He can be helpful, however, he often leaves a number of his students as a boiling mass of neuroses (e.g. Scott Summers) and his default is to seek control, even by force (e.g. Jean in the Dark Phoenix Saga and Scott in Avengers Versus X Men).
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The Shrink / int_a583fe1e	comment	Sam the Cat: Detective: In The Maltese Kitten, Sam talks with a psychiatrist's cat who fancies herself as a psychiatrist and the business partner of her owner due to how she "settles" nervous clients and leads private support groups of cats with anger issues and catnip addictions. She thinks that Sam is having delusions about being a detective and takes a while to answer his questions.
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The Shrink / int_a5d88e5c	comment	In Annie Hall, there is an amusing Split Screen scene showing Alvy and Annie at their respective shrinks, who simultaneously ask them how often they make love. Alvy replies, "Oh, hardly everâ€¦ two, maybe three times a week." While Annie says, "Oh all the time, at least two or three times a week."
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The Shrink / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Dr. Corrine from Questionable Content. A particularly amusing/intelligent quote of hers:
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The Shrink / int_ad6a095e	comment	Princess: The Hopeful: Menders are those Princesses whose Calling is to make the broken whole and remove suffering from the world, and they are just as ready to deal with mental wounds as with physical.
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The Shrink / int_b2ac2311	comment	Lucy van Pelt of Peanuts. At 5Â¢ a session, you presumably get what you pay for.
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The Shrink / int_b5cc0abd	comment	The eponymous Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is mostly of this type, albeit with occasional flashes of competence.
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The Shrink / int_b6bdf3e9	comment	Kaeloo gives us Jean Guillaume the psychotherapist. He's sometimes shown to be useful and effective, and provides Kaeloo with good advice. On the other hand, when Mr. Cat comes to his office for help, all he does is hold a lengthy conversation which winds up being more like a casual conversation between two friends and is not even remotely helpful. At one point they even make fun of Kaeloo while she's sitting right next to them.
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The Shrink / int_b994ae50	comment	In Analyze This (and its sequel, Analyze That), Billy Crystal plays an Awesome Shrink to whom Robert De Niro's mob boss character grows too attached.
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The Shrink / int_b99df4d7	comment	In Loveless, Ritsuka has one of the well-meaning but useless kind.
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The Shrink / int_baf3bcd7	comment	The Pardoners' Guild of Wraith: The Oblivion pretty much have to be good, as their purpose is to help wraiths keep their Shadow under control, and being harmful or useless is a good way to ensure the Shadow takes permanent control, turning the wraith into a Spectre â€” assuming the would-be Pardoner doesn't fall themselves.
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The Shrink / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom: The Emotion Eater Spectra disguised herself as a therapist and deliberately made her student patients more miserable in order to feed off their negative emotions.
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The Shrink / int_bc3e398b	comment	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has the above-mentioned Dr. Silberman, but his counterpart is the awesome Dr. Boyd Sherman. Not only does he accurately assess John as suffering from PTSD, he also thinks Cameron might have Asperger's Syndrome, he tries to get Sarah to talk (good luck), and sorts out an AI question the geeks can't. Unfortunately, it ends badly for him.
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The Shrink / int_bcea8f7c	comment	Dr Ashley Ellis in Freedom City is closely based on Dr Ashley Kafka, above. The notes on customising Providence Asylum for your game says that the staff may be interpreted as anything from "trying their best" to "more disturbed than the patients", except her.
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The Shrink / int_be6c608c	comment	In Solitude, there's a therapist that is both ineffectual and harmful: as a child, Light Yagami's parents made him see a therapist for his abnormal and less than social behavior he exhibited while grieving for his grandmother. This therapist, though well-meaning, makes things even worse: Light, being the genius that he is and too clever for his own good, takes away the lesson from their session together that he must appear normal at all costs, and as a result, he doesn't report it when he's raped by his father's coworker. So while his parents think the therapist is a miracle worker and that Light is magically "cured" of his antisocial tendencies, Light has just got better at faking it and has also acquired a seething resentment towards the rest of the world. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going to happen when a certain Artifact of Doom falls into his handsâ€¦
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The Shrink / int_c2130e95	comment	And likewise in The Seven Per Cent Solution.
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The Shrink / int_c36f6aae	comment	In A Bad Case of Stripes, several psychologists come over to try and cure Camilla's stripes, but neither of them are successful.
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The Shrink / int_c4282b71	comment	When Starlight Glimmer becomes student counselor for the Friendship School in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, she proves to be incredibly good at the job. Most of her episodes involve finding a work/life balance or having to manage other responsibilities with her job, but she never has any trouble being a valuable counselor appreciated by the students.
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The Shrink / int_c58e3dfc	comment	A psychiatrist works at Helen's school in Martha Speaks: When Martha the talking dog phoned him up by accident, he thought she was a woman under a delusion that she was a dog.
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The Shrink / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm: Charles Xavier is a legendarily skilled therapist, with a Running Gag being that everyone in the superhuman sphere is referred to him. Among others, he helps Dresden come to terms with his pyrophobia after almost losing his hand, coaxed Jean out of her near-death experience as a child, and works through the issues of the Red Room prisoners, most especially Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey, Jean's Separated at Birth twin. Harry ends up with the so-far unseen Doctor Dani Moonstar, former student of Xavier, whose work is cited as one of the main things keeping him sane in the sequel and helping him to cope.
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The Shrink / int_c75d67d	comment	Dr. Sandy Wong in the Person of Interest fic A Field Guide to Common Birds in New York City (by Toft) is sensible, careful of her patients' information and preferences, and not thrown by all the weird things that John Reese (ex-CIA assassin, current vigilante) tells her about his life and problemsnote Being surprised would imply I have any expectations, John. Iâ€™m not here to have expectations about how you will or will not feel. Iâ€™m here to help you work out how you do feel, and whether itâ€™s the way you want to feel. So â€” is this the way you want to feel?. And when Reese comes to her with the expectation of ending therapy, she calmly points out that while she's open to discussing it, he's only solved one of his problems, not all of them, and she's willing to stick it out for however long he needs her.
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The Shrink / int_c8b7e012	comment	The Snake Pit features Dr. Kik, who is friendly and gentle, and who succeeds in curing the young woman in his care of schizophrenia.
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The Shrink / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus had several sketches with psychiatrists, most of them mad. Hamlet meets a series of fake psychiatrists who only want to talk about sex ("You've got her legs up on the mantelpiece..."). A milkman psychiatrist who makes pat diagnoses of patients' problems without first obtaining their full medical history. Mr. Larch, a psychiatrist who calls himself on the phone.
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The Shrink / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG: Lieutenant Commander Jordan Parker, Romantic False Lead to Harmon Rabb in season 4. Lieutenant Commander Vera McCool, counseling at first reluctant Sarah Mackenzie twice onscreen in season 9 & 10. Mac is reluctantly ordered by Admiral Chegwidden to see a psychiatrist in "Take It Like a Man", following changes in behavior after the events in "Persian Gulf". At first the therapy seems to be ineffective, but when seen in the season 10 episode "The Four Percent Solution" it proves to be effective.
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The Shrink / int_cc974932	comment	Dear Zindagi: Jug is the Awesome type. He immediately positions himself as different from other stuffy therapists by wearing jeans to a conference and is able to draw Kaira completely out of her shell by the movie's end through meaningful anecdotes and metaphors, outings alongside the shores of Goa, and just being able to understand her and her issues. He's so good that Kaira falls in love with him but he correctly rebukes her.
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The Shrink / int_ccf875f7	comment	The unsub in the Criminal Minds episode "Scared To Death", who murders his patients using their worst fears.
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The Shrink / int_cdae0b41	type	The Shrink
The Shrink / int_cdae0b41	comment	Forever: At Chaning Cross Asylum, the doctor assigned to Henry is somewhere between the Harmful and the Well-Meaning types. At the turn of the 19th century, there was a belief that patients could be forced to better mental health by punishing them for undesirable behavior or beliefs. Thus Henry was given a "treatment" better known today as waterboarding, but it may well have genuinely been meant for his own good. In "Skinny Dipper" Henry is ordered to see a therapist, and is assigned to Dr. Lewis Farber, who puts him at ease with Darjeeling tea, a British accent, and talk of missing England. He's actually Adam, Henry's immortal stalker, using a false identity as part of setting Henry up with an elaborate Batman Gambit.
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The Shrink / int_cfd91008	comment	Dr Charles Roley in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Taint is an odd mix of "well-meaning but ineffective" and "harmful". He has no idea what's actually going on, and the theory he's basing his treatment on is about 80% nonsense, but even beyond that, it's not clear how much he's actually trying to cure his patients, and how much his main concern is using them to prove the theory. He's prone to explaining how everything he's doing is to help them in a way that suggests he's trying to convince himself as much as anyone.
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The Shrink / int_d0f995a5	comment	Moonbase 3: Dr. Helen Smith is such a straight example of this particular version of the trope that it borders on parody. She has empathy to beat the band, but she really isn't very good at her job. In "Departure and Arrival", she does not treat the matter of Harry Sanders' erratic behaviour with the seriousness that it deserves â€” though Caulder found that she was not at fault in that instance. Things get worse from there. In "Behemoth", she failed to take any notice of Heinz Laubenthal's similarly erratic behaviour. In both "Achilles Heel" and "Outsiders", she is blind to the strange patterns of behaviour and relatively obvious warning signs displayed by two emotionally disturbed men as she is too distracted by her attraction to them. She does realise that they have problems but believes that they are of the kind that can be solved by her kissing them.
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The Shrink / int_d132bc60	comment	Doctor Lovetalk from Sexy Losers would be a good radio sex therapist if her advice actually reflected the needs of her callers. As it is, they're either dishonest about their problems, or have interests too strange and disgusting even for her.
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The Shrink / int_d1e1037f	comment	The main character of Night in the Woods sees a therapist, Dr. Hank, which is good, since she's clearly mentally ill and is suffering some sort of nervous breakdown. Unfortunately, Dr. Hank is utterly worthless as a therapist â€” his only method seems to be "write it down in a journal." If his patient were someone else, he'd just be Ineffective, but when you find out Mae's mental problems led to her putting someone in the hospital, nearly getting herself killed multiple times, and having the aforementioned nervous breakdown, which in turn led to her dropping out of college, he's officially crossed into harmful territory. Another character mentions having seen him for her drug problem, but finding him to be useless as well, and only getting clean when she changed doctors.
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The Shrink / int_d43be22a	comment	Dr. Loomis from the Halloween movies is awesome. One gets the sense that he would be doing great work in his chosen profession if one of his patients hadn't turned out to be Michael Myers.
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The Shrink / int_d4fdfff4	comment	Dev Cvetic in the opening series of ER, suffering from his own issues, becomes more and more reckless and cavalier with each episode before Susie finds him dictating his own issues into a tape recorder.
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The Shrink / int_d796465d	comment	Rung from The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers and The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye stradles the line between ineffective and awesome. He is a genuinely skilled, highly trained psychologist, but his patients are often so profoundly messed up from eons of war that the best he can manage is keeping them technically functional. That said, all of his patients we've met do seem fond of him.
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The Shrink / int_d9af8733	comment	Neil Gordon from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Mostly an Awesome Shrink, but subverts it when he's willing to use drugs (Hypnocil) to aid his patients.
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The Shrink / int_d9f01b9e	comment	Arnold, Marion's ex-therapist in Requiem for a Dream. When she was his patient they slept together, and she winds up sleeping with him again for money, which proves a traumatic experience for her.
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The Shrink / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: Zaheer, of all people, in Season 4; when Korra comes to him to try and overcome her PTSD, he reaches out to her and genuinely helps her recover fully so she can battle Kuvira. Katara also plays this role in Korra Alone, counselling Korra as she helps her through physiotherapy, and proving to be essential in helping Korra start her recovery. Earlier, Lin Beifong is directed to a therapist to help her deal with her issues with her sister, which are bad enough that they're making her physically ill. It's a difficult treatment, but it works. Interestingly, the method used is not psychotherapy, but acupuncture therapy using needles and metalbending.
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The Shrink / int_df72e458	comment	The President's Analyst: James Coburn plays a psychiatrist so good he's recruited for the title role â€” toward the film's end, he gets out of a forced defection by getting his Soviet captor to realize, through seemingly innocuous conversation, that he only became a spy out of fear of his Stalinist father.
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The Shrink / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: After Buffy's suspension from Sunnydale High is overturned, it's on the condition that she attend regular sessions with the school's therapist. She's initially reluctant, but once she meets Mr. Platt, he turns out to be a genuinely supportive figure. He quickly picks up on the fact that there's things Buffy can't talk about (namely Slayer duties) but instead of demanding she open up, he works around it to empathise with the root issues (her fraught romantic relationship). Sadly, just as Buffy works up the courage to open up to Mr. Platt about more of her issues, the Villain of the Week kills him.
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The Shrink / int_e365af07	comment	Dr. Nicholas Saran in Dino Attack RPG truly meant well, but he had someâ€¦ difficult cases. For one thing, he could never quite get enough time with Kate to really get to the heart of her trauma. Pharisee, on the other hand, constantly refused any kind of counseling from him, though he might have gotten some spiritual counseling from Dr. Noomi Shaw. The best he got to a successful counseling session was with Rex, which happened entirely off-screen.
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The Shrink / int_e4732abc	comment	Dr. Kate Heightmeyer in Stargate Atlantis.
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The Shrink / int_e6f1b188	comment	In Mystic Messenger, the characters most in need of psychological help (Rika and Saeran) do see therapists, but the therapists are depicted as completely unable to help them. Apparently in the world of Mystic Messenger, multiple therapists are so incompetent that they couldn't tell that a clearly-suffering patient was mentally ill and a broken person just needs The Power of Love from their twin brother to heal instead of useless therapy!
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The Shrink / int_e7aa3669	comment	In the German crime comedy Dr. Psycho, police psychologist Max Munzel is far less incompetent than his personality would suggest.
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The Shrink / int_e8ca88ad	comment	In David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, the protagonist tries consulting Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider) about his wife's addiction to his bug spray. His method doesn't help much, and he turns out to be just as crazy as everything else in the movienote for those of you curious, this is a movie which prominently features giant insect typewriters that speak out of their anuses.
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The Shrink / int_e936047a	comment	Hey Arnold! has Dr. Bliss, the child psychologist who helped Helga in "Helga on the Couch".
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The Shrink / int_eb3f3551	comment	Mass Effect: Andromeda has Dr. Lexi T'Perro, the Tempest's resident sawbones, who has some psychiatric training. She's also got a poor bedside manner, difficulty socializing, and most of the crew do what they can to avoid her. Fortunately, Ryder's crew are (relatively) sane and don't require psychiatric servicesâ€¦ except for Peebee. When Lexi tries talking to her if Ryder kills Peebee's abusive ex-girlfriend, Peebee angrily rebuffs her, and Lexi asks Ryder to try in her stead.
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The Shrink / int_ec5908ee	comment	Dr. Luther in The Three Faces of Eve.
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The Shrink / int_f01bd515	comment	The unnamed psychiatrist in Cut (by Patricia Mccormick). The entire book is narrated in the second person to her, and is about the protagonist's recovery, which is obviously due to the shrink's involvement.
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The Shrink / int_f2da188a	comment	Hugo Strange may count as well, especially in the The Batman incarnation. Also Harley Quinn's origin, as detailed elsewhere. Batman writers hate psychiatry.
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The Shrink / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier. Generally speaking the show portrays Frasier as an intelligent, ethical psychiatrist who genuinely wants to help people, somewhere between types two and three (the limitations of his work providing advice on a radio show for a couple minutes at a time come up a lot). But since Frasier was a long-running sitcom, the main character could go back and forth between all three categories depending on the needs of the week's episode. Part of the show's premise was the irony inherent in a brilliant psychiatrist who dispenses excellent advice to strangers, but cannot figure out his own neuroses or his screwed-up familial relationships. Niles, for his part, is mainly an Awesome Shrink, though again that can vary depending on the episode.
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The Shrink / int_f6eed39	comment	The premise of the television show The Sopranos is that main character and mob boss Tony Soprano starts seeing a therapist. Dr. Melfi actually is a very skilled therapist, and is able to help him through some of his issues. However, later episodes indicate that he may well be a sociopath and beyond actual rehabiliation, and the biggest effect of therapy for Tony has been helping him seem normal (as normal as a mob boss can be).
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The Shrink / int_f74b5f80	comment	One served as a kind of "inexpert witness" for ISN in the Babylon 5 episode "The Illusion of Truth". He seems nice enough, but has no idea what he's talking about (he misidentifies Stockholm Syndrome as "Helsinki Syndrome") and is being hauled out to provide propaganda against the heroes by what is basically a fascist government's PR wing.
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The Shrink / int_fb5347d8	comment	Sigmund Freud himself in The Dracula Tape. And likewise in The Seven Per Cent Solution.
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The Shrink / int_ff9ab17f	comment	On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deanna Troi's competence and effectiveness seem to go back-and-forth, depending on whether the writers want her to simply sense feelings and state the obvious or provide a significant insight and do something constructive about it.
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