List of fictional psychiatrists

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NameWorkMediumAuthor/DistributorActor(s)
Misir Ali Several (See Misir Ali) Novel series and films Humayun Ahmed Abul Khair, Abul Hayat, Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Ashish Khandaker, Shatabdi Wadud, Chanchal Chowdhury, Humayun Faridi
Dr. Alfred Bellows I Dream of Jeannie TV series NBC Hayden Rorke
Dr. Alistair Crown A Solitary Grief novel Bernice Rubens
Dr. Andrey Yefimitch Ragin  "Ward No. 6" short story Anton Chekhov
Dr. Cliff Patel Silver Linings Playbook film Weinstein Company Anupam Kher
Dr. Benjamin "Ben" Harmon American Horror Story TV series FX Dylan McDermott
Dr. Ben Sobel Analyze This & Analyze That 1999 film, 2002 sequel Warner Brothers Billy Crystal
Dr. Bernie Feld Hope Springs film Columbia Pictures
Dr. Beverly Barlowe Eureka TV series Syfy Debrah Farentino
Dr. Bill Capa Color of Night film Cinergi Pictures Entertainment Bruce Willis
Dr. Bill Hoffman Help Me Help You TV series ABC
Dr. Charles Kroger Monk TV series USA Network Stanley Kamel
Dr. Charles RenderHe Who Shapes novella Roger Zelazny
Dr. Craig Huffstodt Huff TV series Showtime Hank Azaria
Dr. Daniel P. Schreber Dark City film New Line Cinema
Dr. Dick Diver Tender Is the Night novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dr. Elliot Kupferberg The Sopranos TV series HBO Peter Bogdanovich
Dr. Emil Slyker"A Deskful of Girls"short story Fritz Leiber
Dr. Frasier Crane Cheers
Frasier
TV sitcom NBC Kelsey Grammer
Dr. Gail Adamson Baldwin General Hospital TV series ABC Susan Brown
Dr. Gideon Largeman Garden State film Fox Searchlight Pictures Ian Holm
Gag Halfrunt The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio et al. Douglas Adams
Dr. Henry Sikorsky The Dream Team film Universal Studios
Dr. Isaac Barr Final Analysis film Warner Bros.
Jacob's doctor Jacob's Ladder film TriStar Pictures Lewis Black
Dr. James Harvey Casper
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper   
film, TV seriesUniversal Studios
Dr. Janet Ross The Terminal Man film Warner Bros. Joan Hackett
Dr. Jennifer Melfi The Sopranos TV series HBO Lorraine Bracco
Dr. George Huang Law and Order: Special Victims Unit TV seriesNBC B.D. Wong
Dr. Grace Foley Waking the Dead TV series BBC
Dr. Bill Beecroft Red Dragon and sequelsnovels, films Thomas Harris
Dr. Hollingshead The Secret Life of Walter Mitty short story, film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Dr. Hugh Beale St. Elsewhere TV series CBS G.W. Bailey
Dr. Iggy Frome New Amsterdam TV series NBC Tyler Labine
Dr. Igor Veronika Decides to Die novel Paulo Coelho
Dr. Jonathan Banks Side Effects film Open Road Films Jude Law
Capt. Josiah J. Newman Captain Newman, M.D. filmUniversal Studios Gregory Peck
Admiral Katrina Cornwell Star Trek: Discovery TV series CBS All Access Jayne Brook
Dr. Lainey Winters General Hospital TV series ABC
Dr. Laura Horton Days of Our Lives soap opera NBC
Dr. Laszlo Kreizler The Alienist , The Angel of Darkness novels Caleb Carr
Dr. Leigh Sapien CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TV series CBS Brenda Strong
Dr. Jane Falifax Halifax f.p. TV series Nine Network Rebecca Gibney
Dr. Leo Marvin What About Bob? film Touchstone Pictures Richard Dreyfuss
Dr. Lilith Sternin Cheers
Frasier
TV sitcomNBC Bebe Neuwirth
Dr. Linda Freeman Two and a Half Men TV sitcom CBS
Dr. Martin Dysart Equus play Peter Shaffer
Dr. Malcolm Crowe The Sixth Sense film Barry Mendel Productions Bruce Willis
Major Sanderson Catch-22 novel Joseph Heller
Dr. Marvin Monroe The Simpsons TV  cartoon series Matt Groening (creator)
Dr. Marlena Evans Days of Our Lives soap opera NBC Deidre Hall
Dr. Mellinger"Minus One"short story J. G. Ballard
Dr. Minerva It's Kind of a Funny Story film Focus Features Viola Davis
Dr. Murchison Spellbound film United Artists
Dr. Nate Getz NCIS: Los Angeles TV series CBS
Dr. Nathan R. Conrad Don't Say a Word film Regency Enterprises
Dr. Neven Bell Monk TV series USA Network
Dr. Niles Crane Frasier TV sitcomNBC David Hyde Pierce
Dr. Otto Scratchansniff Animaniacs TV cartoon seriesWarner Bros. Long John Baldry
Dr. Peter Silberman [lower-alpha 1] The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
films Orion Pictures Earl Boen
Dr. Paul Weston In Treatment (American TV series) TV series HBO Gabriel Byrne
Professor Plum Clue film Paramount Pictures Christopher Lloyd
Dr. Richard Greville Running Wild novellaJ.G. Ballard
Dr. Rachel Armstrong Home and Away soap opera Alan Bateman Amy Mathews
Dr. Rosen A Beautiful Mind film Universal Pictures Christopher Plummer
Dr. Sara Iijima Private Psycho Lesson TV series U-Jin (creator)
Dr. Sidney Freedman M*A*S*H TV series Larry Gelbart (creator)
Dr. Stanley Keyworth The West Wing TV series Aaron Sorkin (creator) Adam Arkin
Dr. Tobias Fünke Arrested Development TV sitcom Fox Broadcasting David Cross
Dr. Tyrone Berger Ordinary People film Paramount Judd Hirsch
Dr. Victor Stephanson What a Way to Go! film 20th Century Fox
Dr. Victoria Siebert Side Effects film Open Road Films Catherine Zeta-Jones
Dr. Violet Turner Private Practice TV seriesABC
Dr. Will Zimmerman Sanctuary TV series Syfy Robin Dunne
Dr. William Haber The Lathe of Heaven novel Ursula K. Le Guin
Dr. Zachary Smith Lost in Space TV seriesCBS
Zack Busner The Book of Dave novel Will Self
Dr. James Whitman The Psychiatrist TV series NBC
Dr. Bernard Altman The Psychiatrist TV series NBC
Dr. Kathryn Railly 12 Monkeys filmUniversal Studios Madeleine Stowe
Dr. Katharine Wyatt Grey's Anatomy TV series ABC Amy Madigan
Dr. Fletcher 12 Monkeys filmUniversal Studios Frank Gorshin
Dr. Matt Lincoln Matt Lincoln TV series ABC
Dr. Molly Clock Scrubs TV series NBC Heather Graham
Dr. Sara LynchConversations with the Devilnovel Jeff Rovin
Dr. Samuel Heller Desperate Housewives TV series ABC Stephen Spinella
Dr. Hannibal Lecter The Silence of the Lambs and sequelsfilmUniversal Studios
Dr. Robert (Bob) Hartley The Bob Newhart Show TV series CBS
R. Lars Porsena Red Orc's Rage novel Philip Jose Farmer
Dr. Emil Skoda Law & Order
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV series NBC J. K. Simmons
Dr. Sonia Wick Girl, Interrupted film Columbia Pictures Vanessa Redgrave
Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel variousvarious DC Comics/DC Entertainment/DC Films various
Dr. Helen HartramphBlack BoxTV series ABC Vanessa Redgrave

Notes

  1. The character of Dr. Silberman is described in The Terminator as a psychologist. [1] In the sequels Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines the character is retconned as a psychiatrist. [2]

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References

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  2. Ginn, Stephen (January 2015). "Screening Psychiatrists: The Good, the Bad, and the Dippy". The Lancet Psychiatry. 2 (1): 25–6. doi: 10.1016/s2215-0366(14)00140-0 . PMID   26359608. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg