Intimate Psychotherapy: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Legend of the Blue Wolves]]'' has a double example, as this "helps" {{spoiler|Jonathan}} to get over {{spoiler|being falsely accused of theft, then beaten and ''raped'' by the culprit}} while also helping {{spoiler|Leonard}} to deal with {{spoiler|the tragic death of his younger brother, several years ago (his feelings for Jonathan ''are'' partially driven by a [[Big Brother Complex]], as the guy looks a LOT like an older version of said brother)}}.

* In ''[[Berserk]]'', while Guts and Casca are making love - Guts begins to have flashbacks of his [[Dark and Troubled Past|dark and horrific childhood ordeal]] of {{spoiler|being anally raped and being betrayed by his adoptive father altogether.}} When this happens, years of repressed post traumatic stress is released as Guts has an emotional breakdown in front of Casca. Afterwards, he tries to go away and deal with his issues on his own, thinking himself a freak and [[Defiled Forever|soiled]], but Casca gives a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] by giving Guts a [[Cooldown Hug]], and said that now that they've revealed their crappy childhoods to each other, that they were truly equal to each other, as friends and as lovers.

 

== Comic Books ==

** Another Hetalia fic, "Mistakes", has China attempting to do this with a random hooker, and then later with France, in an attempt to heal himself. [[Subverted Trope|It does not work]].

** Subverted in the fic "Cages". A recently colonized Taiwan has sex with [[Imperial Japan]] after {{spoiler|having been raped by China in the prequel ''Dollhouse'', and then rescued by Japan once he takes her in}} -- but it doesn't fix her problems either. She does somewhat heal under his care ( {{spoiler|and helps an also colonized!Korea to emotionally heal from Japan's harsh treatment}}, but it's ''not'' due to having sex with Japan.

* A [[Lost Forever]] Digimon fic has the grown up Koushirou and Jyou as a couple. Jyou is driven to an [[Heroic BSOD]] at some point after [[Failure Knight|failing to save the lives of a young boy and his parents]], and he discusses the incident with Koushirou who then helps him relax and forget about it via sex.

* James applies this to Jessie several times in [[Cori Falls]]'s ''[[Pokémon]]'' fanfiction.

== Film ==

 

* ''[http://www.movierapture.com/attackgirlsswimteamversustheundead.htm Attack Girls Swim Team vs. The Undead]''

* In the movie ''[[Baby Boy]]'', the main character loses his temper and slaps his girlfriend, and then she starts breaking down and crying uncontrollably. So he picks her up, carries her to the bedroom and gives her oral sex while sad music plays. She forgives him and it's never mentioned again.

* Subverted in ''[[Horrible Bosses]]''--Kurt's attempt to "fuck the crazy out of" Julia has only temporary effects.

 

{{quote| Envoy co-option techniques make rather brutal use of the deep wells of psychosexual energy that drive humans at a genetic level. Properly mined, the matrix of animal strength on tap in those places will speed up psychic healing by whole orders of magnitude. You start with light hypnosis, move into quick-fix personality engagement and thence to close bodily contact that only misses definition as sexual foreplay on a technicality. A gentle, hypnotically induced orgasm usually secures the bonding process, but at the final stage with Wardani, something had made me pull back. The whole process was uncomfortably close to a sexual assault as it was.}}

* Subverted in the ''[[Star Trek]] [[The Next Generation]]'' novel ''Imzadi''. Deanna Troi, shortly after meeting Riker for the first time on Betazed, suggests that they take off their clothes and spoon, saying that it's a technique she learned in her psychotherapy classes for moving past the desires of the flesh. And they do precisely that--lie there naked and talk without doing anything sexual. Later, Deanna's professor says he's never heard of any such technique (except in treating sexual dysfunctions, natch) and that it would probably lead to sex.

* In the A.J.Quinell's book ''Snap Shot'', The sex between on of the protagonists (a war photographer) and a psychologist (another protagonist) who showed compassion towards him, help him to finally get ride of a trauma he got in one of his missions.

* In ''The Stolen Throne'', the first prequel book to the ''[[Dragon Age]]'' video game, Rowan comforts her future husband Maric shortly after he executed his former lover, Katriel, for being a spy. After hours of sobbing and holding each other, it's strongly implied that they make love for the first time. Notably, it doesn't resolve Maric's guilt over Katriel's death, which he feels even years later. It just helps him cope.

* ''[[Call Me Fitz]]'': After burying Babs, guess how does Fitzy comfort Ali.

** Earlier in the episode, Fitz gets this from Meghan.

 

== Video Games ==

 

* Played with in Jack's route in ''[[Mass Effect]] 2''. The sequence that makes her somewhat less psychotic is clearly "intimate," but doesn't involve sex. Earlier in the game, it's possible to have sex with her, but this confirms her belief that people only care about her sexually, and results in a bad end to the romance.

* Tomohiro helps his friends this way in [[LEAV Es]].