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* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'': A patient in a space-borne asylum for the criminally insane turns the tables on the institution's supervisor, turning him into a neurotic wreck who hands the keys over to the patient. And that's just the start...
* 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,
* In the first few seasons of ''[[The Sopranos]]'', Dr. Melfi gradually gets distraught by her therapy sessions with Tony Soprano, leading to weight gains, [[Drowning My Sorrows|drinking]], and needing therapy herself.
* Dr. Cox of ''[[Scrubs]]'' has been giving psychologists fits for years.
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** There's similar tapes of Harley Quinn "curing" the Joker. The first of her tapes though is her applying for the job, where she says she's so fascinated by the powerful villains that end up in Arkham. And Arkham ''still'' hired her. Presumably because all competent Doctors recognized the pattern and applied for jobs anywhere else.
*** Happened to the Asylum's founder, Amadeus Arkham, as well after a serial killer murdered his wife. And as the ''Spirit of Arkham'' messages reveal, {{spoiler|it's happened to the current administrator as well}}.
*** This is inverted with the interview tapes in ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'', in which the interviews are being conducted by none other than [[Psycho Psychologist|Professor Hugo Strange]] who [[Horrifying the Horror|manages to out-creep most of Arkham City's various maniacs]] with devastating [[Hannibal Lecture
* Fred Bonaparte from ''[[Psychonauts]]'' is a variation of this. He was originally the cheerful Chief Orderly of Thorny Towers Asylum, until he tried to cheer up chronically-depressed [[Jerkass]] Crispin by playing a board game. Crispin won game after game after game, and soon Fred snapped and developed a split personality (the [[Genetic Memory]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|of Napoleon Bonaparte]]) while Crispin took over ''his'' job running the asylum for [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Dr.]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Loboto]].
* A bonus video from ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon]]'' had the psychiatrist get [[Mind Rape
* One of the patients in ''[[Die Anstalt]]'', a Flash game about giving psychotherapy to [[Living Toys|animate stuffed animals]], is a psychiatrist himself, a stuffed raven named Dr. Wood who is slowly revealed to have his own issues, up to and including narcissistic personality disorder. If you screw things up during your sessions with him, he might try to put ''you'' on the couch and give you electroshock therapy.
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