History Main / AllPsychologyIsFreudian

* ''Acts of the Apostles'' by John F. X. Sundman involves a bunch of Bill Gates-esque billionaires running around attempting to become self-actualized. It's supposed to be based on Freudianism, but modern psychology would consider all these guys bat-shit crazy.

* Averted in ''The Manticore'', the second novel of Robertson Davies' ''Deptford'' trilogy; the course of psychoanalysis the protagonist undertakes is explicitly described and depicted as Jungian.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Done mostly straight when Doctor Orpheus goes inside Dr. Venture's mind. He encounters the Eros and Thanatos drives, which take the forms of Master Billy Quizboy and Pete White, and the id, ego, and superego, who all look like various incarnations of Dr. Venture (Id resembles Venture when he was a young boy, Ego looks a lot like Rusty as himself, and the Superego bears a similarity to Rusty's dad).

** Frasier has a HomoeroticDream, and for a Freudian, the implications are obvious -- so he turns to Niles for a second opinion that might be less threatening to his ego. Niles believes "all dream interpretation if Freudian" and just throws out a bunch of basic (and misapplied) Freudian precepts. Once Frasier "cracks" the dream, he [[spoiler:has another one about Freud himself]].

* In the drama ''Series/{{Awake}}'', Britten's therapists overwhelmingly spend their time applying dream analysis, which while fitting for the show is not widely used in real life. To be fair while Dr. Lee tries to tell Britten why his mind "invented" each scenario, Dr. Evans focuses more on what his dreams say about his current emotions.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' episode "Hold Me Tight," The Statue of Liberty leaves Ringo misty-eyed because "the old girl looks just like me mum waiting for dad to come home with his paycheque."

* In ''Series/TheSopranos'', Tony's sessions with Dr. Melfi occasionally touch on Freudian concepts (such as hinting at a sexual attraction toward his mother). But he doesn't accept Freudianism or the idea that he has to talk his problems out, especially given that he has to keep his sessions a secret:
-->'''Tony:''' I had a semester and a half of college, so I ''understand'' Freud. I understand therapy, as a ''concept''. But in my world, it does ''not'' go down!
* On ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' (and ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' before that), Frasier is a psychiatrist and is a typical Freudian like you'd expect him to be. However, his diehard Freudianism is often portrayed as a running gag, as nearly every other doctor is a behaviorist of some kind and dismisses his thinking.
** Frasier's brother Niles, also a psychiatrist, is a Jungian, and will occasionally comment on how Frasier's philosophy is well-suited for entertainment -- such as his call-in radio show. But fans note that Niles often spouts neo-Freudian jargon rather than Jungian, and wonder if a real Jungian might accept Daphne's belief that she has PsychicPowers as part of the collective unconscious.
--->'''Niles:''' ''(filling in for Frasier on the radio)'' While my brother is a Freudian, I am a Jungian -- so there will be no [[FreudianExcuse blaming mother]] today!
** Fraiser's ex-wife Lilith is a firm behaviorist who follows the works of Gestalt and will often mock both Frasier's ''and'' Niles' psychoanalytical beliefs.
--->'''Lilith:''' Congratulations, Frasier, you've done it again. You've led another unsuspecting innocent down one of your dark, dead-end Freudian hallways.
** Frasier receives a bust of Freud from a student as a gift. Then she explains that she gave it to him [[{{Irony}} ironically]], as obviously he knew that nearly everything Freud said had since been debunked. Frasier reacts as only Frasier can.
** Frasier has a HomoeroticDream, and for a Freudian, the implications are obvious -- so he turns to Niles for a second opinion that might be less threatening to his ego. Niles believes "all dream interpretation if Freudian" and just throws out a bunch of basic (and misapplied) Freudian precepts. Once Frasier "cracks" the dream, he [[spoiler:has another one about Freud himself]].
** In "Don Juan in Hell", Frasier starts hallucinating that he's being visited by his former lovers and gets cornered by the three women he married (or tried to marry, in Diane's case), only for a fourth to show up who doesn't necessarily fit the pattern:
--->'''Frasier:''' Mother! What are ''you'' doing here?!\\
'''Lilith:''' You have to ask? You're a Freudian.
* In ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', All of Charlie's womanizing -- and all of Alan's failures thereof -- are attributed to their mother issues. It's so extreme that at various points, Charlie is infatuated with a woman with the exact personality of his mother, and Alan and Charlie have a sibling rivalry over an older woman whom Charlie's psychiatrist is convinced is a mother figure.
-->'''Charlie:''' You were conditioned as a child to seek Mom's approval. You're still seeking Mom's approval and you make every woman in the world a substitute Mom.\\
'''Alan:''' But what about you? We had the same mother.\\
'''Charlie:''' Well, I handle my conditioning in a different way. I have casual and often degrading sex with my substitute Moms -- but [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject we're talking about you and not me so forget I said that]].

---> "So now I'll be putting good things into people instead of taking bad things out, which I admit sounds dreadfully Freudian, but [[LampshadeHanging Sigmund's been largely discredited anyway]], [[TakeThat so to hell with him.]]"
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}''
** Episode "Just Harried"

** Episode "Sand Francisco Dreamin'"
--->'''Tracer Demon:''' [after seeing that Phoebe has stabbed her nightmare creature, and thereby also hurt herself] Would Freud have a field day with this or what?

** Episode "4x4"

** Episode "Fur And Loathing"

--->'''Hodges:''' Freud's theory on the uncanny raises the point that as children we want the doll to come to life. But as adults, we are terrified by the idea. The doll could represent the uncanny that is feared. The Sandman."

* ''Series/ViennaBlood'': This series is set in Vienna in 1907 and 1908 when and where Dr. Freud was basically inventing Freudian psychology. Max the young psychiatrist is a huge fan. His boss Professor Gruner is emphatically not. In Season 2 Max has gone into private practice as a classic Freudian, complete with couch for his patients.
* The fourth season of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' featured a psychology teacher who in one episode explicitly referenced Freud and the id. However, given that this was a first-year course, it could be she's simply going through the history of the field; since it occurs in Buffy's dream, it might also be a way of showing that Buffy's not doing too well in the class.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** Leslie Winkle suggests Penny is escaping into the {{MMORPG}} ''VideoGame/AgeOfConan'' as a result of sexual frustration. When Leonard disagrees, saying it is only to raise her self esteem and has nothing to do with sex, Leslie replies, "Everything has to do with sex."
** Leonard's mother, who is supposedly a world-renowned psychologist but extrapolates from Howard's dependency on his mother and Raj's inability to talk to women that they're [[HoYay subconsciously homosexual]]. This is despite acknowledging that many of his theories are outdated.
** Or perhaps that incident subtly hints that Beverly is either A: not as bright as she thinks she is, or B: a ruthless [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative bitch]].
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Data visits a holodeck version of Freud when he starts having nightmares and tries to make sense of their meaning. Holodeck Freud immediately jumps to father issues, but Data notes that he never met his father. Nor does he have a mother. Subverted when Data informs Troi of his session with the good doctor-she's very distraught as psychological theory and research has advanced hundreds of years since his era (it would be the equivalent of asking a Holodeck version of Isaac Newton for help on a paper on the physics of starships). When he leaves, she says "Next time, please come to me before you see Sigmund."
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E19FrameOfMind Frame of Mind]]," Troi actually quotes Jung. Her style is usually fairly Rogerian, however.
* Decidedly averted in ''Series/CriminalMinds''. While a lot of their cases revolve around sex and aggression that would have fascinated Freud, their methods are mainly cognitive/behavioral. In one scene [[TheSmartGuy Reid]] even states "Freud has been discredited but Jung still has his merits." in regards to the concept of accessing repressed memories through hypnosis.
* ''Series/LasVegas'' averts this trope handily when a psychologist is evaluating the Montecito's employees. When he gets to GeniusDitz Belinda, she asks him what method of analysis he's going to use, then name-drops several methods before revealing [[CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure she used to be a psych major]].

* Avoided by Tony's Series 2 episode of ''Series/{{Skins}}'', which is very much a study in Jung rather than Freud (it's all about Tony's quest to rediscover his anima, [[MindScrew or something]]).
* Averted in ''Series/{{Raines}}''. Raines brings up Freud at his first therapy session, but Kohl says that she's a Jungian.
* In the drama ''Series/{{Awake}}'', Britten's therapists overwhelmingly spend their time applying dream analysis, which while fitting for the show is not widely used in real life. To be fair while Dr. Lee tries to tell Britten why his mind "invented" each scenario, Dr. Evans focuses more on what his dreams say about his current emotions.

* Parodied in Canadian TV series ''Series/StudentBodies'', as the protagonist, cartoonist Cody Miller, is called out for his frequent usage of Freud in his cartoons because "it's the only (psychologist) he can draw."
* {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'', where two gentlemen claiming to be psychiatrists try to analyse one another under the pretense that the other is a deluded patient. Naturally, it quickly devolves into this trope:
-->''"So lets imagine a line, shall we? Fear at one end, breasts at the other. Now where would you place your father on that line?"''
* Dr. Huang on ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' is probably a more well-rounded television psychologist than most but he still will lean Freudian if it makes for good storytelling. Recognizing the trope, many episodes have someone else on the cast bring up the Freudian bit so Huang can correct them about advances in psychological theory. [[DependingOnTheWriter Basically if Freud is proffered by Huang it's treated as valid, if he's brought up by someone else it's outdated nonsense.]]

* ''{{Series/Rake}}'': Cleaver seems to think so, making comments which invoke Freud to his ex-wife Wendy, who's a psychiatrist. It's averted with her actual techniques however.
* In ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'', the exception proves the rule: Before he begins with a new patient, a Nazi psychologist explains that he does ''not'' base his work on Sigmund Freud because Freud had Jewish heritage. Instead, he goes by the works of Carl Jung, who was of "Aryan" stock as a Swiss.
* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': In some episodes, when Ginger assumes the role of psychiatrist, her first instinct is to ask the patient about things like their childhood. Of course, she's a case of ImNotADoctorButIPlayOneOnTV, so HollywoodPsych is probably all the psychology she knows.
* ''Series/ThePractice'': In "Free Dental" a psychiatrist gives a Freudian explanation of how the defendant's crush fetish[[note]]Becoming sexually aroused by seeing bugs stepped on.[[/note]] arose. This scene happens in 1999, when Freudianism had been abandoned by virtually all American psychiatrists for more than forty years.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' features a few examples, although they're mostly [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzagged]] and never commit to Freud being completely correct:
** In one episode, Sophia, the TeamMom of the group, complains that she hates psychiatrists, as "they always blame the mother." Dorothy then points out that for women of their age, mothers ''were'' the people who children, and especially daughters, spent the most time with and learned from, given that fathers were nearly always working. As such it's to be expected that moms would have a large influence in their kids' lives.
** In "End of the Curse," Blanche starts going through menopause and flies into a hysterical depression. The other girls force her to see a psychologist, who largely [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] the trope by ''not'' focusing on Blanche's relationship with her mom; it's Blanche herself who brings it up as a reflection of her own fears of getting older.
** "Three on a Couch" features all four women going through talk-therapy with a professional psychiatrist, but he doesn't rely on any Freudian language, instead letting them discuss their problems and saying that it's their clashing personalities causing their issues, not any particular childhood grief.
** Rose worked as a grief counselor in the early seasons of the show and later revealed some HiddenDepths by remarking that she regularly reads psychology journals to keep up to date on the latest research. Her comments largely fall into the Freudian model ("There's a cognitive dissonance between her actual and ideal self which causes her to be practically dysfunctional"), and lead to a great BewareTheNiceOnes moment when Blanche refuses to accept the idea that Rose could know anything about psychology:
--->'''Rose''': I don't care what you believe. ''(Under her breath)'' [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Hypersexual bitch.]]

-->''"Tell me about your childhood..."''
-->''"So how long have you been having these...delusions?"''
-->''"Please, tell me more about your mother..."''

* A subversion of this is ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', which is pretty famous for using Jungian psychology. Though it does use a good amount of Freudian psychology as well.
* The ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Persona]]'' series also uses Jungian psychology heavily.

*** ''Persona 2'' does have some Freudian elements, most notably [[spoiler:the fire at the shrine causing RepressedMemories and the characters overcoming some of their problems while fighting their Shadows.]]
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' contains some ConversationalTroping of this, when we visit the mansion of Dr. Alestair Grout, a Malkavian (read: "batshit insane") vampire, whose old audio diaries the player gets to hear, where Dr. Grout criticizes Freud and Freud's ideas. Not only was Grout a contemporary of Freud's during his living existence, but he apparently supported even older and more outdated ideas. (He at one points speaks with melancholy about the loss of the classical sanitarium.) Of course, Grout ''is'' insane and his primary motivation has always been curing his own condition.

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' with Michael's PsychoPsychologist Dr. Friedlander, who has a bust of Freud in his office and asks Michael about his sexual habits every session. However, the narrative makes it plain as day that he's a complete fraud and [[HateSink he ends up getting murdered by either Michael or one of his other patients]] as a result.

* In ''[[Webcomic/UmlautHouse Umlaut House 2]]'', a [[HiveMind giant aggregate id]] gains sentience (ego?), and has to be imparted with a superego to cease to be a threat.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Susan's four GoodAngelBadAngel manifestations [[http://www.egscomics.com/comic/2012-03-15 appear]] and come to unanimous agreement about her feelings. Then, Susan's Logic refers to Susan herself as Ego.
-->'''Dan:''' Psychology majors, take note. This is how your mind actually works.
* ''Webcomic/PhillerSpace'': One arc has Philler [[LiteralSplitPersonality split into three beings]]: his id, ego, and superego.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Done with Dr. Scratchansniff, the Warners' "[[{{Malaproper}} p-sychiatrist]]."
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': During the episode "A Pinata Named Desire" Roger and Stan have been relentlessly competing, Hayley tells them to just f*** and get it over with because of their repressed sexual urges (which just screams Freudian). Steve asks her how her [[{{Subject 101}} Psychology 101]] class is going and she replies that it's only day three and she already understands how the whole world works.
** Hayley is amusingly proven somewhat right when the pair end up simulating sex on stage during a play and afterwards are instantly friendly toward each other.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' episode "Hold Me Tight," The Statue of Liberty leaves Ringo misty-eyed because "the old girl looks just like me mum waiting for dad to come home with his paycheque."
* In ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'', there's an episode where the main trio have to convince Freud himself to use this type of psychology instead of [[HypnoFool hypnotism]]. It's parodied at the end, when Freud starts analyzing dreams from people in an audience:
-->'''Deputy''': Uh, I dreamt I was a watermelon.
-->'''Freud''': You hate your mother!
-->'''Deputy''': Oh yeah...

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* In Marvel's ''Hanna-Barbera TV Stars'' series, a story has Undercover Elephant (a character from their 1977 series ''WesternAnimation/CBBears'') after a criminal called Pretty Boy Freud, a bodybuilder that doubles as a psychiatrist to lull his victims out of their synch. He fools Undercover Elephant into thinking he needs psychiatric help so he can make a getaway.
-->'''Undercover Elephant:''' ...And mom used to spank me with a tennis racquet. The kids all used to call me "ol' Waffle Britches!"

* Played for laughs in ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': When Ching tells Shinji she wants to talk about his father issues and counsel him, she begins their talk by parodying Freud, complete with pipe and glasses:

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* Played completely straight in ''Film/TheSnakePit'', where a psychiatrist cures a patient with a serious case of schizophrenia by using the classic Freudian "talking cure". No medication was required. This was TruthInTelevision at the time, as part of a movement in psychiatry, and what was called "schizophrenia" back then might today be defined as "depression" or "anxiety disorder".

* Averted by the Creator/IngmarBergman film ''Film/{{Persona 1966}}'', which has no Freudian psychology but is basically a catalogue of Jungian psychology, including an ultra-rare example of "countertransference" (basically, when the patient drives the ''examiner'' crazy).

* In the comedy ''Film/WhatAboutBob'', Dr. Marvin idolizes Freud to the point that he named his son Sigmund and his daughter Anna (the name of one of Freud's daughters and the one to follow him into psychoanalysis).
* In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', Jonathan Crane is all over the place. He could well be a behavioral or biological psychologist, considering how he was using his fear gas. But the only psychology we see him actually deliver is total bullshit designed to get Rachel off his back, and that name-checks Jungian theories.
* Subverted in ''Film/HellraiserInferno'': As Detective Joseph Thorne gets more obsessed with the case, his captain orders him to see the precinct's psychiatrist. Joseph notes to his partner that he'll be off to talk about his childhood, but the psychiatrist's sessions are in fact very informal and he spends more time informing Joseph about the Cenobites.

* In ''Film/ApartmentZero'', one of the neighbors tells Jack that he reminds him of [[HoYay a boy]] [[DoubleEntendre he was close to when he was in school]]. The neighbor speculates what Freud would have to say about that, and then [[SexyDiscretionShot it is implied]] that he and Jack get up to some [[FreudWasRight very Freudian activities]].

* In ''Film/TheCobweb'', Stewart practices the old-school "talking cure". One possible justification is that the clinic is more of a mental health retreat and presumably wouldn't accept patients who actually need to be treated medically.
* In ''Film/BedtimeStory1964'', Lawrence speculates that Freddy's misogynistic views come from a negative experience with his mother, possibly during his potty training.

* One of the main characters of ''Literature/TheLongingOfShiinaRyo'' is firmly convinced that Freudianism is the way to do psychology.

* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' series, human psychologists are stumped when trying to analyze the [[LizardFolk Race]], whose species has a mating season, raise their children by the whole community, and don't even think about mating otherwise. They seem unable to analyze them outside the Freudian lens.
* Parodied in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'': When Mr. Nutt has to psychoanalyze himself (ItMakesSenseInContext), he uses a FreudianCouch and a "slight {{Uberwald}}ian accent." He also leads off with "Tell me about your mother".

* Mrs. Levy in ''Literature/AConfederacyOfDunces'' believes this, though she's pointedly quite incorrect. She took a correspondence course in psychology (which she failed) and constantly tries to apply her "knowledge" to her HenpeckedHusband and Miss Trixie, a senile employee of Levy's company who just wants to retire in peace. Miss Trixie gets it especially awful; Mrs. Levy ''insists'', against the complaints of both Mr. Levy and Miss Trixie herself, that what Trixie really wants is to remain employed so she could feel wanted. But there's a real Freudian moment when it's revealed that [[spoiler:with the makeup and wig Mrs. Levy ends up applying to her, Miss Trixie looks almost exactly like Mrs. Levy's mother]].
* Averted in ''The Manticore'', the second novel of Robertson Davies' Deptford trilogy; the course of psychoanalysis the protagonist undertakes is explicitly described and depicted as Jungian.
* [[PsychoPsychologist Dr Lilith Ritter]] in ''Literature/NightmareAlley'' is very much of the Freudian school of psychology, which fits into the book's 1940s setting. She makes client Stan lie on a FreudianCouch where he can't see her or make eye contact with her and she constantly implies that his present psychological issues are due to his various childhood traumas, abandonment issues and troubled relationship with his parents, even indicating to him at the end that he wanted to [[ChildSupplantsParent have sexual intercourse with his mother and kill his father]] and has now transferred his sexual feelings for his mother onto her.
* In ''Literature/AlanMendelsohnTheBoyFromMars'', Leonard is sent to a psychologist who insists that all of his problems in school stem from a deep-seated, secret hatred of his parents, and refuses to listen to Leonard unless he confesses all of his "problems". He also asks Leonard about repressed memories from when he was an infant. Of course, Leonard sees this as nonsense, but makes a bunch of stuff up to satisfy him.

* Defied in ''Literature/DeepSix1984'' by Prof. Lugovoy, a biologic/cognitive psychologist critical towards Freudian theories.
* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'':
** Played with when Kyon wakes up from a dream that ends with a kiss and cries, "What the hell?! Freud would have a field day with this!"
** Koizumi is fond of explaining Haruhi's and everyone else's behavior through Freudian psychology. However, he mostly stays clear of {{Freudian Excuse}}s and seems to use Freud's actual theories, not TheThemeParkVersion.

* [[PsychoPsychologist Dr Lilith Ritter]] in ''Literature/NightmareAlley'' is very much of the Freudian school of psychology, which fits into the book's 1940s setting. She makes client Stan lie on a FreudianCouch where he can't see her or make eye contact with her and she constantly implies that his present psychological issues are due to his various childhood traumas, abandonment issues and troubled relationship with his parents, even indicating to him at the end that he wanted to [[OedipusComplex have sexual intercourse with his mother and kill his father]] and has now transferred his sexual feelings for his mother onto her.

* This article explains [[http://io9.com/why-freud-still-matters-when-he-was-wrong-about-almost-1055800815 "Why Freud Still Matters Even Though He Was Wrong About Almost Everything."]] Essentially, although Freud's major ideas such as the Oedipus Complex and the ego/superego/id have been long since discredited by academic researchers, the underlying ''concepts,'' such as the fact that we're driven to some extent by our unconscious minds, are still the scientific basis for all psychology.

A subtrope of HollywoodPsych and SmallReferencePools. See also UsefulNotes/CarlJung, Freud's contemporary and one-time apprentice, who provides the most popular alternative viewpoint until, again, the late 20th century.

* One of the main characters of ''LightNovel/TheLongingOfShiinaRyo'' is firmly convinced that Freudianism is the way to do psychology.

The prevalence of this trope comes from Freudian psychology just being more interesting for character stories. After all, it's [[BoringButPractical not particularly interesting]] to diagnose a character with a mental illness and treat them with appropriate drugs -- but you can get a lot more mileage if you spin that illness into a FreudianExcuse like having AbusiveParents or an OedipusComplex. Furthermore, Freudian psychoanalysis and similar humanistic therapies lend themselves well to CharacterDevelopment; they take time, but they also lead to [[ContemplateOurNavels contemplation]], [[EpiphanyTherapy epiphany]], and triumphant catharsis. And just because Freudian psychology is outdated doesn't mean it's ''entirely'' useless, and such therapy might still be actually useful for some individuals.

** In "Frame of Mind," Troi actually quotes Jung. Her style is usually fairly Rogerian, however.

* In ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'', Misaki tries to help Satou by interpreting his dreams based on a book about Freud. Satou sees through it and decides to fool around, describing a rather interesting dream.
* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'':
** Played with when Kyon wakes up from a dream that ends with a kiss and cries, "What the hell?! Freud would have a field day with this!"
** Koizumi is fond of explaining Haruhi's and everyone else's behavior through Freudian psychology. However, he mostly stays clear of {{Freudian Excuse}}s and seems to use Freud's actual theories, not TheThemeParkVersion.

Freud's model (drastically oversimplified, of course) is that many psychological problems can be traced to interaction with one's parental figures or some interaction of the UsefulNotes/IdSuperegoAndEgo, commonly known as the "Freudian Trio". The best way to cure someone was the "talking cure", where the patient is made to talk about his problem until it's out in the open and he can face it directly. Freudian psychology was the predominant model until the last quarter of the 20th century, particularly the 1990s (known among psychologists as the "Decade of the Brain"), when research started making many discoveries about the chemical imbalances that can be intertwined with various mental illness, leading to medication becoming a major form of treatment (either by itself or in conjunction with some type of therapy). Plus there's the simple fact that many psychological issues can have ''multiple'' different reasons for developing outside whatever family issues someone may have. If someone has post-traumatic stress disorder because they saw a fellow soldier die in front of them, talking about that one time their mother yelled at them as a kid isn't going to help with that. And that's without getting into the different ''types'' of therapy outside just talk therapy that can serve as a pathway to healing, much less all the different schools of thought behind them: your aforementioned soldier may find themselves in an art therapist's studio painting or making masks instead of sitting on a couch just talking, for example.

A subtrope of HollywoodPsych and SmallReferencePools. See also UsefulNotes/CarlJung, Freud's contemporary and one-time apprentice, who provides the most popular alternative viewpoint.

--->'''Phoebe Halliwell:''' So I just studied this in psych 101. Freud. You're the ID. Prue's inner desires. Which means that she is the ego. The [[CriticalResearchFailure control factor]].