Psychology Tropes

Tropes about how the human mind works... or could be made to work, given some premise. Including tropes on therapy and the science of psychology.

(For Real Life psychology, check out our Useful Notes on the subject.)

Categories:
 * Character Flaw Index
 * Empower Ment
 * Envy and Jealousy Tropes
 * Extraversion Tropes
 * Internal Conflict Tropes
 * Introversion Tropes
 * Memory Tropes
 * Morality Tropes
 * Madness Tropes
 * Philosophy Tropes


 * Abuse Mistake
 * Aggressive Categorism
 * All Psychology Is Freudian
 * Ambiguous Disorder
 * Ambiguous Situation
 * Anger Born of Worry
 * Armchair Psychology
 * Bad Dreams
 * Beneath the Mask
 * Big Five Personality Traits
 * Black and White Insanity
 * Categorism As a Phobia
 * Category Traitor
 * Circumcision Angst
 * Crapsack Only By Comparison
 * Date My Avatar
 * Demoted Memories
 * Destructive Romance
 * Doublethink
 * Egocentrically Religious
 * Emotion Control
 * Epiphany Therapy
 * Erotic Dream
 * Fan Flattering
 * Five Stages of Grief
 * Florence Nightingale Effect
 * Freudian Couch
 * Freudian Excuse
 * Freudian Slip
 * Freud Was Right
 * Getting Smilies Painted On Your Soul
 * God Is Flawed: This trope is to a large extent about psychoanalyzing God.
 * Hair Trigger Temper
 * Happily Failed Suicide
 * Hollywood Psych
 * I Can Change My Beloved
 * I Just Want to Be You
 * Induced Hypochondria
 * Inferiority Superiority Complex
 * Inkblot Test
 * Internalized Categorism
 * Jesus Was Crazy
 * Lima Syndrome
 * Love Makes You Crazy
 * Manufacturing Victims
 * Masquerade Maintenance
 * A Match Made in Stockholm
 * Middle Child Syndrome
 * Mommas Boy
 * Mommy Issues
 * Myers Briggs
 * Nature Versus Nurture
 * Nonsense Classification
 * Oedipus Complex
 * Only Child Syndrome
 * Out Damned Spot
 * Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality
 * Pitying Perversion
 * Placebo Eureka Moment
 * Psychological Thriller
 * Psycho Psychologist
 * Questionable Consent
 * Recurring Dreams
 * Reluctant Psycho
 * Retail Therapy
 * Reverse Psychology
 * Sanity Slippage
 * Sanity Strengthening
 * Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny
 * Single Issue Psychology
 * Sour Prudes
 * Split Personality
 * Stockholm Syndrome
 * Straw Affiliation
 * Sugary Malice
 * Super OCD
 * Therapy Backfire
 * Therapy Is for The Weak
 * There Are No Therapists
 * Trans Nature
 * Troubled Sympathetic Bigot
 * Warrior Therapist
 * Windmill Crusader
 * Windmill Political