From Gypsy to The Sopranos, what do real psychotherapists think of TV shrinks?

The Sopranos put a mobster through analysis. Now Gypsy is making a psychotherapist the star of the show. Does TV get it right - or is gross malpractice just dramatically inevitable?

This is the age of the fictional psych, instantly canonised in the person of Tony Soprano's analyst, Jennifer Melfi, beautifully developed by Gabriel Byrne with In Treatment, and given a shonky Netflix-over by Naomi Watts in Gypsy.

When The Sopranos came out, the richness of the territory was astonishing; I sometimes wondered not why it hadn't much been done before, but why all TV series didn't do it, why President Josiah Bartlet wasn't also in therapy, and The Wire's Stringer Bell, and Breaking Bad's Walter White. It was such a stunningly obvious way to zoom in and out of character, develop metaphor - it was as if someone had invented a new kind of camera.