Therapist Misconduct 9 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Therapists and psychiatrists who abuse their patients' trust, and the cases that expose them.
- Season 1 · Episode 2
A Single Life
A writer’s fatal fall from her apartment window leads the detectives to her psychologist, a TV anchor and a father whose abuse she spent her adult life escaping.
- Season 3 · Episode 1
Repression
A college student accuses her wealthy father of years of sexual abuse, and when he is shot dead after the case collapses, the memories her therapist helped uncover come under scrutiny.
- Season 5 · Episode 3
Mother
A psychiatrist known for treating sex offenders is attacked and left in a drug den, and the investigation exposes her methods and a patient’s buried past.
- Season 10 · Episode 9
PTSD
When a pregnant Marine who reported a rape in Iraq is killed in New York, SVU clashes with the military, while Benson struggles with the aftermath of her own assault.
- Season 11 · Episode 19
Conned
A teenage hustler dies at a wedding carrying a runaway’s ID, and the runaway’s story exposes the psychiatrist who has controlled him for years.
- Season 13 · Episode 22
Strange Beauty
A young woman abducted in a cab is found dead after a forced amputation, tying her to a severed leg pulled from the Gowanus Canal 11 years earlier.
- Season 20 · Episode 19
Dearly Beloved
A woman accuses a therapist of rape at his own wedding, but her history of harassing him and others makes SVU doubt her story.
- Season 21 · Episode 8
We Dream of Machine Elves
Young women are found drugged with huge doses of DMT after being sexually assaulted, and the trail leads to a radical psychiatrist and his devoted followers.
- Season 27 · Episode 16
Vivid
A streamer’s memory of being raped, recovered during a psychedelic drug trial, points SVU not to her ex but to the therapists treating her.