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  • Re: (tor dot com) The Doctor Is In: Five SFF Stories Featuring Therapis

    From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to Default User on Tue Jul 25 03:12:55 2023
    In article <u9ndd7$vm3a$1@dont-email.me>,
    Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
    James Nicoll wrote:

    The Doctor Is In: Five SFF Stories Featuring Therapists

    Not every character in fiction is therapy-averse and outside the DCU,
    not every therapist is a supervillain in disguise.

    There was the old Robert Sheckley’s short story
    "Bad Medicine", 1956. A guy gets a therapy appliance, but ends up with
    one intended for Martians. Misdiagnosis ensues, in the form of "feem
    desire".


    Brian


    "The Yellow Pill" By Rog Phillips is available online (apparently
    officially, if a bit annoyingly rendered) here:

    https://www.lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/phillips/index.html

    Ginny in Anderson's _Operation Chaos_ does some impromptu "therapy"
    to neutralize an afreet.
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Default User@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Tue Jul 25 02:52:23 2023
    James Nicoll wrote:

    The Doctor Is In: Five SFF Stories Featuring Therapists

    Not every character in fiction is therapy-averse and outside the DCU,
    not every therapist is a supervillain in disguise.

    There was the old Robert Sheckley’s short story
    "Bad Medicine", 1956. A guy gets a therapy appliance, but ends up with
    one intended for Martians. Misdiagnosis ensues, in the form of "feem
    desire".


    Brian

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