There's a big gap between research psychologists and therapeutic psychologists. Their daily activities are very different. But even within therapeutic psycholo

There's a big gap between research psychologists and therapeutic psychologists. Their daily activities are very different. But even within therapeutic psychology, you're right. Freudian psychoanalysis (talk therapy) was huge in literature and movies, even though Freud himself has been out of influence inside the field for decades. CBT, exposure therapy, etc are much more common treatments.