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May explain why most [[There Are No Therapists|don't bother.]]
An occupation-specific [[Sub Trope]] of [[Infectious Insanity]]. Also often a sub-trope of [[Hannibal Lecture]], but not always, as sometimes the character has no intention to do it. For an example of a ''villain'' running into this problem, see [[Shut UP, Hannibal]].
While not entirely the case, this can occasionally be considered [[Truth in Television]], seeing as some therapists do end up depressed or taking medication due to the relationship with their patients.
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== Comic Books ==
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** Psychoanalyzing The Scarecrow is possibly even more hazardous than a session with Joker, since Scarecrow's in the habit of sneaking in some fear toxin and taking a quiet, academic interest in why the therapist is suddenly scratching out his own eyes. Doesn't help that he's an actual psychologist himself either.
** Gotham City: Where [[For Want of a Nail]] is "For Want Of Good Psychologists"...
* In ''[[Elf Quest]]'', the healer Leetah tries to cure the [[Anti
* ''[[Rudi (Comic Strip)|Rudi]]'''s buddy whose shrink became depressed himself after analyzing him and ended up as a beggar.
* [[Soil]] (a manga but stylized more like a western graphic novel) has a school councelor who is actually pretty knowlegable and spot-on about her subjects' problems (once she realizes how horrible they are), but {{spoiler|keeping her insane(?) son(?) locked in the basement behind an electric fence that he keeps trying to get out of to the point the wires' pattern is burned into his body}} kinda diminishes her authority.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The basis for ''[[JAGS Wonderland]]'', an Alice In Wonderland-inspired TRPG, is that people can be infected with a mental disorder/meme/''parasitic reality'' that tends to suck other people in when a sufferer has an episode, or 'goes down the rabbit-hole'. Many psychologists who care for those affected are inevitably affected as well, dragged down through levels of reality until they reach the lowest layer and go ''insane''.
* The intro fiction for the [[New World of Darkness]] fan game ''[[Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game)|Genius: The Transgression]]'' features a psychoanalyst trying to treat a veteran [[Mad Scientist|Genius]] who's just sick of it all. She eventually [[Science
** Also appears in ''[[Hunter: The Vigil (Tabletop Game)|Hunter: The Vigil]]'', particularly with Slashers of the Genius and Maniac variety. Extended conversation with them allows them to create derangements, alter your morality, predict your every move, and otherwise screw with your head. Fitting, since they're based on Hannibal Lecter, The Joker, and others.
** The corebook for ''[[Promethean: The Created]]'' opens with a psychiatrist called in to interview a "[[
* Inverted in [[Call of Cthulhu]], 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 (Tabletop Game)|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).
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*** 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|Hannibal Lectures]].
* Fred Bonaparte from ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|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
* A bonus video from ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon]]'' had the psychiatrist get [[Mind Rape|Mind Raped]] by Alma, and she ends up cowering under a table while Alma skips around the room.
* 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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