Peter Bogdanovich credited as playing...
Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Obviously, Shelia resent me. I'm dating her father, the sullen looks, the transference of her issues to me with her mom. As your favorite patient says Maybe I should put my shoe up her ass?
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: [confused] Which patient of mine says that?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [clarifying her joke] Mine your favorite patient of mine
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: [referring to Tony Soprano] Oh, he hasn't been in the paper much lately
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You miss that don't you?
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: [referring to the 1959 Television series] My father was a rabid Untouchables fan: Make of that what you will
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: What?
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: I ran into Nancy Duggan last week, you know Nancy?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [after thinking it over] Vaguely
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: [after she nods] Anyway, she told me Something interesting, a lot of studies about talk therapy as it relates to sociopaths, criminals, one of them in the criminal personality, conducted by Yochelson and Saint Elizabeth's. Essentially it concludes that talk therapy, while not only being useless with sociopaths, actually, serves to validate them. Yochelson says they sharpens their skills as conmen on their therapists, crocodile tears, what have you
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Why are you smirking?
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: I'm not
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [doubting him] Oh, really?
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: We show data. the one-year conviction rates were higher for offenders in therapy than for those receiving no treatment at all