I don't recall seeing Christian physically assault anyone before, although I could be forgetting something, and obviously he's crossed that line in this latest episode. I think Kimber's got some serious guts, though, and it's ironic to see Christian accusing her of weakness when she's facing down a shouting bully who outweighs her by a factor of two or three. There really was a lot of projection going on this episode, methinks.
As for Scientology, I'm hardly an expert here, but I have the impression that its ire is directed more specifically against psychiatry (the medical discipline) rather than psychology (the study of how the mind works). In other words, my sister-in-law's specialty rather than my brother's. This animus appears to extend to the use of psychiatric drugs, which ironically seem to be much more effective than parking somebody on a couch and asking them about their mother. :-)
Nip/Tuck's stance on psychiatry is an interesting question, and it's one I started pondering again last week with the introduction of the Brooke Shields character. In general, characters in the mental health field - including Julia's mom, Eva the "life coach," and that staff counselor they had working in the office for a while - seem to be pretty good at zeroing in on peoples' issues and problems, but their advice tends to be self-interested or lead to unintended consequences. On the other hand, they're not depicted as being so relentlessly conformist as the plastic surgeons, and Matt's Scientology-inspired grumbling about taking his meds seems like the first time the show has raised the subject of psychiatry as a device for imposing normalcy on people. Whereas, where plastic surgery is concerned, that topic comes up literally every week.
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Date: 2006-09-13 06:09 pm (UTC)As for Scientology, I'm hardly an expert here, but I have the impression that its ire is directed more specifically against psychiatry (the medical discipline) rather than psychology (the study of how the mind works). In other words, my sister-in-law's specialty rather than my brother's. This animus appears to extend to the use of psychiatric drugs, which ironically seem to be much more effective than parking somebody on a couch and asking them about their mother. :-)
Nip/Tuck's stance on psychiatry is an interesting question, and it's one I started pondering again last week with the introduction of the Brooke Shields character. In general, characters in the mental health field - including Julia's mom, Eva the "life coach," and that staff counselor they had working in the office for a while - seem to be pretty good at zeroing in on peoples' issues and problems, but their advice tends to be self-interested or lead to unintended consequences. On the other hand, they're not depicted as being so relentlessly conformist as the plastic surgeons, and Matt's Scientology-inspired grumbling about taking his meds seems like the first time the show has raised the subject of psychiatry as a device for imposing normalcy on people. Whereas, where plastic surgery is concerned, that topic comes up literally every week.