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{{quote|"Is it worse than you thought?"~~|'''Dr. Stanley Howard''', ''[[Criminal Minds]]''}}~~

{{quote|"Is it worse than you thought?"

|'''Dr. Stanley Howard''', ''[[Criminal Minds]]''}}

Sometimes [[There Are No Therapists]]... and sometimes you'll only ''wish'' there weren't.

Mental illness or psychological trauma can be serious, damaging issues that may need many months, if not years, of serious and dedicated care from a highly trained and understanding professional. This trope is what happens when you take those professionals and add a sprinkle of [[Ax Crazy]], [[Torture Technician]], and / or [[Manipulative Bastard]]. Psycho Psychologists are therapists who really should not be a therapist; at best they will display a criminally negligent [[Lack of Empathy]] with the patient and either grow callously frustrated with dealing with other peoples problems, or give them horrible and often self-destructive advice; at worst, they will have sinister, ulterior motives and actively abuse the relationship, possibly making their hapless victim an [[Unwitting Pawn]] in some evil schemes, or perhaps deliberately sabotaging their fragile mental state [[For the Evulz|out of sheer spite or sadism.]]

Mental illness or psychological trauma can be serious, damaging issues that may need many months, if not years, of serious and dedicated care from a highly trained and understanding professional. This trope is what happens when you take those professionals and add a sprinkle of [[Ax Crazy]], [[Torture Technician]], and/or [[Manipulative Bastard]]. '''Psycho Psychologists''' are therapists who really should not be a therapist; at best they will display a criminally negligent [[Lack of Empathy]] with the patient and either grow callously frustrated with dealing with other peoples problems, or give them horrible and often self-destructive advice; at worst, they will have sinister, ulterior motives and actively abuse the relationship, possibly making their hapless victim an [[Unwitting Pawn]] in some evil schemes, or perhaps deliberately sabotaging their fragile mental state [[For the Evulz|out of sheer spite or sadism.]]

Expect them to be found at a [[Bedlam House]] and utilize [[Electric Torture|Electroconvulsive therapy]], [[Mind Rape]], [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] and [[More Than Mind Control]] too often, but they can also be found in more humanistic forms of therapy like counseling or [[All Psychology Is Freudian|Freudian therapy]].