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* Dr. Jeremy Batewell from ''Series/{{Profit}}'' uses his skills at hypnotism to molest his female patients. Jim Profit uses recordings of this to blackmail the doctor into psychologically destroying a rival and committing her to an asylum in a perpetually drugged-up state. [[spoiler:Jim later exposes Batewell and "rescues" his rival, leaving her in his debt, and others questioning whether her legitimate investigation into Jim was the result of Batewell's handiwork all along.]]

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* Dr. Jeremy Batewell from ''Series/{{Profit}}'' uses his skills at hypnotism to molest his female patients. Jim Profit uses recordings of this to blackmail the doctor into psychologically destroying a rival and committing her to an asylum in a perpetually drugged-up state. [[spoiler:Jim later exposes the Doctor and "rescues" his rival, leaving her in his debt, and others questioning whether her legitimate-if-dedicated investigation into Jim was the result of the Doctor's handiwork all along.]]

Sub-trope of MadDoctor, if they are psychiatrists, or MadScientist, if they are psychologists; see also TheShrink and MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate. Compare with the evil variant of WarriorTherapist, who [[MindRape crushes your will]] on the battlefield, not the sofa. See also OrderliesAreCreeps. In extreme cases, see DrPsychPatient, where a patient impersonates or is mistaken for a psychiatrist.

* Juliette Faxx from ''Film/RoboCop2'' is pretty crazy as when she's given control of the [=RoboCop=] project, she decided to look into death row inmates for viable candidates and decides on Cain, a known deal cult leader and murderer[[note]]her reasoning, after several tries to create a Robocop 2 with police officer brains have Les to the Robocop units being DrivenToSuicide, is that cops are proud of their bodies and cannot assimilate [[WasOnceAMan that they are no longer human]], so they need people who will focus on the "cool" parts of being a full body cyborg (read sociopaths)[[/note]] -- and is overjoyed when, after she put his brain into the [=RoboCop=] 2 body, he survives an attempt to destroy him, even after he'd been massacring people.

* Juliette Faxx from ''Film/RoboCop2'' is pretty crazy as when she's given control of the [=RoboCop=] project, she decided to look into death row inmates for viable candidates and decides on Cain, a known deal cult leader and murderer -- and is overjoyed when, after she put his brain into the [=RoboCop=] 2 body, he survives an attempt to destroy him, even after he'd been massacring people.

[[caption-width-right:320:Seems legit.]]

* The ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1908149/1/Institutionalized Institutionalized]]'' sees Captain Janeway basically deal with one after ''Voyager'' returns to Earth; the counselor in question won a lawsuit against Starfleet some time ago and used that to basically bully her way into a position where she is in charge of her own facility and can hold various 'security risk' Starfleet officers as patients, continually delaying and denying alternative appointments that might move patients out of her are. The counselor attempts everything from basically {{Gaslighting}} Janeway in minor ways (such as claiming Janeway's forgotten the other woman's name rather than Janeway never being told the name in the first place) to falsely diagnosing Janeway as suicidal (she just bruised herself trying to get out of her straps) or trying to convince her that Chakotay is an abusive stalker (Chakotay tried to break into the facility to rescue her). Fortunately Janeway had enough contacts that she is only there for a week or so before Admiral Paris is in a position to help secure her release.

** Dr. Ray Fleming from "[[Recap/ColumboS00E01 Perscription: Murder]]" is a psychiatrist who seduces one of his patients and convinces her to be his accomplice in the murder of his wife. He is one of the few to catch on to Columbo's act of ObfuscatingStupidity and the only one to do so almost immediately. In a conversation with Columbo, he implies that he thinks of himself as a kind of {{Ubermensch}}, entitled to kill his wife because he could get away with it; he later admits that he would probably have killed his accomplice girlfriend at some point too, and perhaps continue the pattern of murder that he had begun, making him SerialKiller in the making.

* Dr. Lilith Ritter in ''Literature/NightmareAlley'' is a particularly manipulative example of this trope, she's a [[TheVamp ruthless seductress]] who cares nothing about her code of ethics and sleeps with her patients as well as using the confidential information she gains in their sessions against them to coerce and blackmail. In the introduction to the 2010 reprint of the novel by New York Review Books, the journalist Nick Tosches even calls her "the most viciously evil psychologist in the history of literature".

* Dr. Mark [[MeaningfulName Ahriman]] in ''Literature/FalseMemory'' by Creator/DeanKoontz fits the bill. He {{mind rape}}s his patients into committing crimes/very creative suicides, and occasionally ''actually'' rapes them. It's all for [[ForTheEvulz his own entertainment.]] He also has an obsession with eyes, tears, and misery in general. When his victims cry, he licks their tears.
* Flenser in ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'' is the psychological equivalent of an EvilutionaryBiologist, thanks to the hive-minded nature of his species. He creates hive-minds of every possible configuration in order to see what will happen to their members, and the result is usually temporary or permanent psychological damage. He does take his science seriously though--he's willing to raise a new mind entirely on positive reinforcement, not out of any love for it, but because he's genuinely curious what effects such an upbringing will have.

* ''Series/{{Hunter|1984}}'': Dr. Bolin from the pilot episode, who is hired by [[DaChief Captain Cain]] to make psychological assessments of all his officers, in particular Hunter himself so Cain has grounds to fire him for being "unstable". It later turns out that Dr. Bolin is a SerialKiller who is being treated by another therapist for sociopathy. In fact, he specifically picks out women because they resemble his therapist.

* Doctor Michelle Banks from ''Series/{{Revenge}}'' institutionalized and psychologically abused an innocent and mentally healthy girl in an exchange for a cushy private practice. Years later, the girl gets her revenge by stealing copies of the unauthorized videos which Banks made of her patient's sessions, showing them at a public gathering, discrediting her, then kidnapping the doctor and locking her in a shipping container for a day.

* At the end of the ''Series/Forever2014'' episode "Skinny Dipper", it turns out that the episode's antagonist, a mentally ill man, was actually manipulated by his therapist.

* ''[[VideoGame/Persona5 Persona 5 Royal]]'' has its new ArcVillain, [[spoiler:Dr. Takuto Maruki.]] Unusually for this trope, they're a WellIntentionedExtremist and AffablyEvil and are motivated by a genuine desire to end everyone's pain. Unfortunately, this takes the form of imposing a LotusEaterMachine on reality where everyone's deepest desires come true, and their [[MentalWorld Palace]] takes the form of a psychological research facility where anyone who could even be considered vaguely unhappy is sent for "treatment". Flashbacks in the dungeon reveal [[TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes that they're not the most mentally stable themselves]], partly due to past tragedy and partly due to [[spoiler: an unnatural Persona awakening.]]