Sunday, November 16, 2008

Another bad therapist movie...

Watched The Departed last night. Sigh. Another god awful, misleading and unethical representation of how mental health works. So this woman is an MD, PhD what? Psychiatrist? She's writing prescriptions in little dribs and drabs under screaming threats from her client, who sits across a great big desk while she fumbles around without a clue, clearly quite afraid of him. Then she shouts at him, dumps him abruptly and has sex with him the next day (commenting at how turned on she is by his obvious vulnerability). And this last is, of course, ok because "You're not my client anymore" All that, and in the end she is depicted as a heroine for dumping her bad guy fiancée, whom she has been cheating on with her "not my client anymore" toy boy. Gah!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good grief. I just finished a book where a psychiatrist was wacko, too. It would be nice to see a portrayal where they had their act together. Thankfully, there are some!

Donna