Shrink Rap

"Shrink Rap" is the second episode of season 3 of American sitcom Frasier. Niles, dejected, is on the couch of couples therapist Dr. Schachter. His relationship with Frasier (also present) is clearly quite tense and falling apart. Each explains the situation from his own perspective, with corresponding flashbacks: Frasier tells how a young woman called his show with an intriguing recurring dream, but unfortunately they were almost out of time; Ni... more

"Shrink Rap" is the second episode of season 3 of American sitcom Frasier. Niles, dejected, is on the couch of couples therapist Dr. Schachter. His relationship with Frasier (also present) is clearly quite tense and falling apart. Each explains the situation from his own perspective, with corresponding flashbacks: Frasier tells how a young woman called his show with an intriguing recurring dream, but unfortunately they were almost out of time; Niles is having problems with a tenant in his office, a practitioner of scream therapy. When Frasier revealed his discontent with radio psychiatry, and his wish to return to private practice, Niles proposed that the solution to his difficult psychiatrist co-tenant is to replace him with Frasier. The prospect of working together and consulting each other excited the two brothers initially, but the first day brought one argument after another, culminating in the dissipation of Niles' therapy group, and the defenestration of Frasier's schefflera... less