Hot Prospect?

Is psychology now the fad or is it finally getting the very much needed attention and promotion? Apparently, the field seems to be playing a prominent role in many of the series shown nowadays.

Obviously, there are series that dedicated their theme to the field...


















Criminal Minds and Lie To Me exploits the various elements of psychology.

Then somehow I noticed a lot of series, especially police procedural shows hires psychology related personnel to aid investigations. Say....






























Dr Sweets (Bones), Patrick Jane (The Mentalist), Dr. Mallard (NCIS), Nate Getz (NCIS: Legend)in one way or another established influence in their respective series.

So, the situation that interest me is: Are psychologists such prominent figures nowadays? To what degree is their influence upon decision-making and "getting things done"?

TV gives a plausible picture of what they can do. In reality, do they?