Critical Psychoanalysis Failure: Difference between revisions

** However, this is not a typical example. He does nothing to affect their sanity, but he also does not want therapy and is simply smart enough to know how to annoy them.

* ''[[Grosse Pointe Blank]]'':

'''Martin:''' I know the law, okay? But I don't want to be withholding; I'm very serious about this process. [''[[Beat]]''] And I know where you live. }}

* The psychiatrist in the ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' films gets progressively crazier as she has to deal with Riggs.

* Played with in the second and third ''[[Terminator]]'' films. Neither the patient [Sarah Connor] nor the therapist is crazy. The therapist just prefers to ''think'' he is insane than to accept that her story could be correct.

** And that's totally understandable until halfway through the third movie.

 

 

* [[Seinfeld|George Costanza]] once drove a therapist to suicide.

* In ''[[Seven Days]]'', Frank's psychiatrist storms into the supervisor's office ranting about Frank's impossible psychiatric state. Apparently he has a god complex and a martyr complex at the same time and likes tormenting the poor doctor.

* The ''[[My Family]]'' episode "Shrink Rap" features a therapist who was trying to quit smoking with the help of another therapist. She ends up ''eating'' nicotine patches as the general stress of attempting to deal with the Harpers' dysfunctions for even ''half an hour'' takes its toll.

* In the "R. Tam Sessions," one of the tie-ins to the ''[[Firefly]]'' movie ''[[Serenity]]'', River is undergoing prolonged interviews with a counselor/interrogator while [[Mind Rape|being experimented on.]] While in most cases, Critical Psychoanalysis Failure results in mere mental damage, this one ended up far worse; [[Joss Whedon|the interrogator]], not realizing just how dangerously mentally unstable River is becoming, eventually ends up making the ''extreme'' mistake of giving River a pen when she says she needs to write something down. [[The Pen Is Mightier|Stab.]]

* Inverted in [[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]], where a fumble on a psychoanalyst roll makes the ''patient'' lose SAN points. Although there's nothing keeping the sadistic GM from also inflicting SAN loss for psychoanalyzing the minds of those touched by the Cthulhu Mythos...

* Somewhat implied in the [[Unknown Armies]] supplement ''Post Modern Magick'', which mentions that trying to treat adepts (insane magicians) in an mental institution is risky. The corebook, however, doesn't use this trope in the normal rules for curing madness (but GM can certainly inflict madness checks on the therapist if he feels it appropriate).

* In the [[Ravenloft]] boxed set ''Nightmare Realms'', Dr. Illhousen's attempts to assist his dream-plagued patients wind up getting him targeted by the Nightmare Court, who begin attacking the sanity of Illhousen {{spoiler|and his colleague Dr. Trasker}} along with that of his patients'.

** Also, Madness checks are mandatory for [[Ravenloft]] characters who read the minds of the insane, or of [[Starfish Aliens|creatures whose thought-processes rate as "insane" by humanoid standards]].

* The Warner kids in ''[[Animaniacs]]'' do this to Dr. Scratchinsniff on a regular basis.

* In one episode of ''[[Dan Vs.]]'', Dan manages to send a top-tier psychologist running out of the room screaming.

* One ''[[Code Monkeys]]'' episode had a psychiatrist assess the staff, who were all noticeably crazy in different ways. She wound up hating them until she was just as insane. She also pointed out ''her own'' [[You Need to Get Laid|need to get laid]].

 

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