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=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* Dr Long in ''[[Watchmen]]''.
* Dr. Harleen Quinzel in ''[[Batman]]''. Tried to cure the Joker of his madness, but failed so spectacularly that she's now as nutty as he is. On the other hand, she once managed to get [[Lobo]] to leave the Earth alone by [[Talking the Monster to Death| talking about his "issues".]] She has also been able to act as a therapist to depressed and overactive children on a whim.
** Let's face it-almost ''every'' doctor who works at [[Bedlam House|Arkham Asylum]] is like this, judging by their success rate with Batman's enemies.
* [[Herr Doktor|Otto von Himbeergeist]] from one ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' album, who tries to cure the Daltons. While his diagnosis is usually right on-spot, he doesn't manage to turn them. And then, he gets the idea that he should've started a career in crime rather than in academics...
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* In the ''[[Batman]]'' universe, Harley Quinn was a psychiatrist named Dr. Harleen Quinzel at Arkham Asylum before the Joker lured her to a life of crime. She was the well-meaning, dopey type.
** On that note, Dr. Bartholomew of Arkham Asylum genuienlly wants to help as demonstrated in the episode ''Dreams in Darkness''. But he's naive at best...
* [[All Psychology Is Freudian|Dr. Scratchensniff]] of ''[[Animaniacs]]''. A typical dedicated and skilled psychiatrist burdened by three ''very'' atypical subjects.
== Awesome ==
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* Doc Samson in the [[Marvel Universe]].
* [[The Sandman|Death of the Endless]] is the ultimate therapist, as she has to help her charges deal with the most stressful situation of all. This is the whole reason she chooses [[Don't Fear the Reaper| a nonthreatening young-looking, female form.]]
* Ingrid Arkham (wife of Arkham Asylum’s head psychiatrist, Jeremiah Arkham) - was likely the most competent psychiatrist the facility ever had, not to mention the most generous and compassionate. She never believed any of the inmates were irredeemable monsters, a view most Gotham citizens held. Many of the longtime inmates reciprocated this affection, and even the Joker respected her. {{spoiler|This resulted in him and many others - including Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Clayface, and Solomon Grundy - trying to protect her and help deliver her baby when a riot broke out, but sadly, while her baby survived, Ingrid was killed in the melee.}}
=== [[Film]] ===
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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
=== [[Live
* [[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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* Tony Hill from ''[[Wire in The Blood]]'' is an awesome psychologist. Though most of his screen time is devoted to second guessing criminals, rather than curing people. He's so good one crazy hoodoo doctor was convinced that Tony was a witchdoctor too, and the ending suggests they [[Your Mind Makes It Real|died from hallucinating a swarm of flies suffocating them]]. And sometimes it appears he might not be quite right himself.
* Dr. Sweets on ''[[Bones]]'', and before him Stephen Fry as Dr. "Gordon Gordon" Wyatt. Both are treated as the Ineffectual Shrink at first but ultimately prove to be very helpful.
* Sidney Freedman, a recurring guest character on ''[[
* Bob Hartley in ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]''.
* Dr. Molly Clock in ''[[Scrubs]]''. Oddly, she's rather quirky herself.
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* Dr. Bliss, the child psychologist who helped Helga in ''[[Hey Arnold!]]''.
* Morty Storkowitz on ''[[Birdz]]'' does a good job in taming Mr. Nuthatch. In the course of [[Short Runners|13 episodes]], Mr. Nuthatch goes from a nervous-wreck coward to being much more confident (though still eccentric). There's even a slight role reversal as Mr. Nuthatch ends up convincing Morty that he shouldn't be afraid to sing.
* In the ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'' series, Harley is shown as ''very'' effective as one before she became a villain, able to bring Poison Ivy out of a near bestial state of rage; possibly, had Harley not gone insane herself, Ivy might have eventually even been cured.
== Multiple types, variable types, etc. ==
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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.
=== [[Live
* 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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=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
* Lucy van Pelt of ''[[Peanuts]]'' can be any of the previous types, but usually the second type. At 5¢ a session you presumably get what you pay for.
* 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.▼
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
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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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