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And enjoy this course in TV's Psych 101.

By Neal Justin, Star Tribune
Last update: April 06, 2007 ndash; 1:57 PM
Tony Soprano is all better. As the final season starts tonight, we find our hero still obsessed with power, guilt-ridden over family issues and much in need of anger management.

But he must be feeling hunky-dory because these days he visits his psychiatrist about as often as he orders a Diet Coke. Lorraine Bracco, who plays Dr. Jennifer Melfi, still gets second billing in the opening credits, behind star James Gandolfini, but she has been a diminishing factor in every season since the show was launched in 1999.

In the first two of these final nine episodes, she gets as much screen time as a background extra. In the new NBC drama "Raines," Jeff Goldblum's title character is forced to see a psychiatrist. "Head Case," premiering April 18 on Starz, has celebrities such as Jason Priestley and Alanis Morissette sending up their public images by lying on the couch for kooky counselor Elizabeth Goode (Alexandra Wentworth).

Lili Taylor plays a therapist in the Lifetime series "State of Mind," with sessions expected to begin in mid-July. In fact, TV has had a long love affair with the profession, as these 10 memorable appointments remind us. "The Bob Newhart Show" "T.

S. Elliot," (Dec. 15, 1973) Bob Hartley (Newhart) Elliot Carlin, Chicago's most neurotic patient, just may find his sanity when Carol the receptionist agrees to go out with him.

Bob does little to help, because curing Carlin would kill 75 percent of his business. Woodward) The gentle psychiatrist helps a young woman (Sally Field) come to terms with her 16 distinct personalities -- which include a beach-lovin' teen and a flying nun. Henson) Basil (John Cleese) gets paranoid when a shrink checks into the hotel.

"They're mad as March hares," he proclaims. Of course, Basil turns out to be the crazy one, but the doctor refuses to treat the much-maligned innkeeper, stating that he's on holiday. incident in which a Korean woman smothers her own baby to keep from being discovered by the enemy.

Pierce recovers in time to have one last Swamp martini before the end of the war -- and the series. Simpsons" "There's No Disgrace Like Home" (Jan. 28, 1990) Marvin Monroe (Harry Shearer) Homer sells the TV to pay for a $250 family visit.

After the clan revels in giving one another electric shocks, Monroe gives Homer double his money back to never utter a word of the ordeal. Crane (Kelsey Grammer) Frasier advises a radio caller to dump his girlfriend, who then immediately runs into the flustered doc's arms. (Jonathan Katz) After treating the likes of Ray Romano and Winona Ryder, the animated doc takes on the ultimate challenge in Richard Lewis.

The neurotic comic doesn't disappoint, confessing, among other things, that his grandma knitted her suicide note. disorder, Keyworth turns his attention to a sleepless Josiah Bartlet, who makes a much better president than patient. Star Tribune.

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