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* In the novel ''I Am The Cheese'', the main character spends every other chapter or so relating his life experiences to a psychologist at a sanitarium.
* Doctor Nolan in ''[[The Bell Jar]]'', who builds up a relationship of trust with Esther and ultimately improved her condition enough that she could feel hopeful again. Based on the author's real-life experiences.
* Mr Nutt, polymath genius in ''[[
* Rivers from [[The Regeneration Trilogy]] is tirelessly kind and patient with the [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]] s he helps to come to terms with their war experiences.
** Rivers' friend Henry Head is also suggested to be one of these along with some of the other doctors at Craiglockhart
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* [[Aaron Sorkin]]'s a big fan of shrinks. Adam Arkin played Awesome Shrink Stanley Keyworth in ''[[The West Wing]]'', where he helped Josh overcome the trauma of being shot.
** We can also assume that Abby Jacobs, Dan Rydell's shrink from ''[[Sports Night]]'', was going to continue being awesome if the [[Too Good to Last|show had survived]].
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* [[P. G. Wodehouse|Sir Roderick Glossop]] is a rather complicated example. Sometimes he would qualify as harmful because of his tendency to see mental illness everywhere and his belief that Bertie should be institutionalized. Of course since this is Wodehouse its [[Played for Laughs]]. Later on he becomes more of a dopey ineffectual shrink specifically in his use of “The Glossop Method” where he gives a patient whatever it is they want (alcohol for instance) in the hopes that they [[You Fail Logic Forever|will get sick of it and therefore cease to be addicted.]] Needless to say it doesn’t work.
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* In the German crime comedy ''[[Dr. Psycho]]'', police psychologist Max Munzel seems like an example of type 2 and is treated as such by his police colleagues and wife, but he is far less incompetent than his personality would suggest.
* ''[[Frasier]]''. Obviously. Both Frasier and Niles tend to oscillate between types two and three.
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* A common gag in ''[[The Far Side]]''. One of the more famous ones is a therapist who puts in one patient's notes, "Just plain NUTS!"
* A very, very common setting for ''New Yorker'' magazine cartoons. One of my favorites shows a guy at home saying to his parakeet, "You came up in therapy today."
=== [[Video Games]] ===▼
* Dr. Penelope Young from ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' sits at a nebulous point between types 1 and 2. Her intentions are good, but the experiments she performs—and which [[Fridge Horror]] indicates she ''intends'' to perform, given she thinks that her subjects would ''need' a [[Psycho Serum]] like TITAN to survive them—are clearly less than benevolent. She is cool-headed and rational, yet her effects at treating or even diagnosing the patients at Arkham are absolutely useless. This is compounded by the fact she has a rather egrerious case of [[Arbitrary Skepticism]], which means she refuses to believe that, say, Killer Croc is a cannibal (despite this being a well-documented aspect of his behavior by the police) or that the Ratcatcher does have a borderline psychic ability to communicate with rats. Admittedly, in this last case, metahumans are a rarity in Gotham, but at least two well-known cases—Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy—are not only famous, but actually kept in Arkham. Summing up just how terrible she is at performing even a basic diagnosis; Dr. Young actually comes to the conclusion that Jonathon Crane, aka The Scarecrow, is harmless and would be a great assert to the TITAN project... as a researcher.▼
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=== Western Animation ===
* Dr. Hugo Strange acts like a Type 2 in the [[The Alcatraz|Belle Reve supervillain penitentiary]] throughout most of the ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' episode, "Terrors", but at the end, it's revealed that he's been working for the [[Big Bad]] organization "[[Light Is Not Good|The Light]]", and masterminded the nearly successful mass supervillain prison break. [[Xanatos Gambit|He then takes over as warden when it fails, giving The Light control over the largest collection of super-criminals on the planet]].
▲=== [[Video Games]] ===
▲* Dr. Penelope Young from ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' sits at a nebulous point between types 1 and 2. Her intentions are good, but the experiments she performs—and which [[Fridge Horror]] indicates she ''intends'' to perform, given she thinks that her subjects would ''need' a [[Psycho Serum]] like TITAN to survive them—are clearly less than benevolent. She is cool-headed and rational, yet her effects at treating or even diagnosing the patients at Arkham are absolutely useless. This is compounded by the fact she has a rather egrerious case of [[Arbitrary Skepticism]], which means she refuses to believe that, say, Killer Croc is a cannibal (despite this being a well-documented aspect of his behavior by the police) or that the Ratcatcher does have a borderline psychic ability to communicate with rats. Admittedly, in this last case, metahumans are a rarity in Gotham, but at least two well-known cases—Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy—are not only famous, but actually kept in Arkham. Summing up just how terrible she is at performing even a basic diagnosis; Dr. Young actually comes to the conclusion that Jonathon Crane, aka The Scarecrow, is harmless and would be a great assert to the TITAN project... as a researcher.
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