It seems a wave of films and television shows exploring psychotherapy are cropping up now. There's Last Years, The Patient starring Steve Corral who plays a therapist whose client locks him in a basement. Successful therapy requires a safe environment without anything like fear hanging over every session. Shrinking stars Jason Segal as a therapist who begins telling clients exactly what he thinks. A limited series is in the works at Apple TV Plus and will start Billy Crystal as a child psychiatrist. And a film starring Anthony Hopkins called Freud's Last Session will begin production soon. But why is it that so many depictions of therapy are popping up on screens now? It may be because writers have discovered that watching

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