Things Only Adults Notice In Cruel Intentions

Posted by Valentine Belue on Friday, May 3, 2024

When we first meet Sebastian, he is finishing up a session with his therapist, Dr. Greenbaum (Swoosie Kurtz), and it is pretty clear she is not very good at her job. She is constantly checking the clock, tuning him out, and even shilling her book to him, and what's worse is that she gets a little too personal for the typical patient-psychiatrist relationship. It's bad enough when she hugs him, but she then proceeds to tell him highly personal details about her own life, including her daughter's name and where she is planning to attend college. 

None of this is news to Sebastian, of course, but the fact that she so eagerly pierces the veil of professionalism — and even forgets to tell him that their sessions are about to end — means she must not have paid much attention to the ethics portion of her training. Anyone who's been to a therapy session or even just seen one on TV knows this is not how a shrink is supposed to behave.

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