Was she actually a good psychiatrist? Did she help Tony clinically speaking?
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Was she actually a good psychiatrist? Did she help Tony clinically speaking?
She was good but Tony is a sociopath and the show makes it clear that sociopaths will just use therapy to better understand the human psyche in order to become better exploiters and manipulators. Her biggest flaw was being blinded by this because she saw Tony as the ultimate "I can fix him" project that made her seem like a more special academic than she really is.
Psychiatry is all fake and gay bullshit.
It's just another racket for the israelites
Where did you receive your phd from doctor?
I got a bachelors of science and then swapped to a real major for grad school because the undergraduate courses convinced me that psychology is a fake, non empirical, science
This. Can’t even replicate their studies Been lying to public for decades that low serotonin caused depression.
In 2014 my professors were saying they didn’t know how SSRIs functioned
The only ‘real’ psychology being done was in neurology of sea slugs and mayflies - due to simple anatomy and quick lifespans + CRISPR
That many classes began with talks about the debunked milgram experiment or the Stanford prison ‘’’experiment’’’ is frankly embarrassing and most of the people graduating into psych careers are women interested in their own, primarily self diagnosed, mental disorders
If I ever catch a friend using shit like ‘better help’, I’ll crash my 2012 ford fiesta through their bedroom wall as a humanitarian act of euthanasia
what kind of idiot would use glowBlack person help, you really want 1000 hours of you crying about your mother in some antarctic database.
>milgram and stanford prison
>debunked
the conclusions of both of those is people will generally do whatever they're told
She was an okay shrink. Tony was just a terrible patient.
No she wasn’t. She ultimate plot device. Just someone sit there so Tony could express his inner dialogue. That’s not any type good therapy. Therapy learning coping techniques. Reframing your thoughts. Cognitive therapy is based off stoicism. Only thing the show correctly shows is that people with antisocial personality disorder do not
benefit from therapy. They think everyone else is fricked up and stupid.
This is true and was apparent immediately. No mob boss is going to spend hours regularly discussing emotional trauma about his mom, etc
She was terrible at her job because she directly endangers her other patients by seeing him, because he would murder her or them all without remorse if he felt like it for one second, which is not conducive to healing
She's just bored because she's dumb
You've got a very limited view of therapy, anon.
She should have fricked him, I think that would have fixed him.
>Therapy is when you pay to talk to a liberal until you agree with him
Let's talk about those ducks
She had her moments but mostly useless. She should've known that having to dance around what Tony does all day would make directly addressing his problems impossible.
I think deep down she knew, but kept him around as a patient because it's easy enough to convince yourself that you're making a real difference that could save lives (I can fix this homocidal mobster) rather than just living vicariously by being adjacent to real danger and violence.
Why did she get raped by a random mexican
He was southern Italian
>good psychiatrist
oxymoron.
read that as clinically spanking
lolno
If she was a professional she would have had Tony arrested after he forced her to go into hiding
She exploited him because it excited her
that just makes her bad ethically, not clinically
>Clinically speaking
She helped relieve some of Tony’s depression and anxiety symptoms, such as the panic attacks. So yes she helped him.
Should have got a real therapist.
The only good shrink was the old israelite that shat on Carm for ten straight minutes. A moral and intellectual RKO of all her self-deception.
Borderline personality disorder?
Whether she was a good therapist and whether she helped Tony are separate issues.
More importantly, b***h had a great office. Curved walls and shit.
She started off ok, because she did manage to hook into the issues that Tony had with his mother. But over the course of the show her therapy becomes less and less real psychoanalysis and starts sounding more like the kind of stuff a parent tells a rebellious teenager.
This is obviously intentional as we know David Chase was intimately familiar with psychotherapy, being a long time patient himself. To put it simply she got wrapped up into Tony's manipulation just like everyone else.
What benefit was there to identifying his mother as "the problem"?
I think a big part of that is because of how psychoanalysis would've played on screen. It was fun initially, but to have been a proper therapist throughout her arc(s) would've gotten dull. This was peak television but it was still a 00's audience.
Helping the client to identify repressed feelings/thoughts/memories is a focus of psychoanalysis. I don't understand your question.
You don't understand my question? Tell me how Tony identifying his mother as the source of his problems benefited him. Explain how that helped him, in your own words.
Yes, I don't understand the angle from which you're coming.
I can answer, but I'd first like to ask if you're familiar with the therapeutic process. What's been your experience with therapy? That'll help me establish a baseline.
Flush yourself down the toilet.
different anon here. but if your mother is planning to kill you, and fricked your childhood up by being a miserable c**t, it's definitely way better to correctly identify her for what she is (a dysfunctional personality) rather than COPE and see her as some nice old lady. she literally was partially responsible for making Tony realize that his mom is fricked in the head and trying to kill him after being a b***h his whole childhood lol. idk why you're acting like such a confrontational homosexual to the other anon
Didn't she humble brag to all her friends & family about giving Tony Soprano therapy?
She could have them all whacked!
The show itself makes it clear, not really. There are two other therapist characters, Bogdanovich's and that old israeli man Carmella met with once, who have much clearer views of the situation than Melfi does. Melfi at one point recognized that Tony had hit the limits of talk therapy, knew it was time to send him on to a ''behavioralist'', but balked when it was time to potentially never see him again. She knows what he is, knows he's never going to really change, so she figures what's the harm in keeping Tony around as curio. Tony wants to frick Melfi for five seasons, and Melfi wants to exploit Tony for professional curiosity, but never one of them are particularly invested in him changing his ways or actually doing therapy.
much shorter read: she stuck around because there wasn't another way for him to articulate his inner thoughts