This option was later retconned as non-canon in GTA Online: Los Santos Drug Wars, as Friedlander is still alive in 2023. The internet article, posted in the news reel from Los Santos Meteor, reveals that Friedlander published details of Michael's sessions in a best-selling book, (using the alias "Marky De Santos") describing him as an "idiotic, if terrifying and amusingly deluded sociopath". If killed, $2,023 can be looted from his corpse and an Internet article confirms his death. Michael then has the choice to kill him or let him go. Angered by this, Michael chases after Friedlander. He then informs Michael that he needs to find a new therapist and implies that he is going to use Michael's case on his show. Later in the game (in an optional visit), he tells Michael that he has been offered his own TV show and will be leaving Los Santos. Some time afterwards, he listens to Amanda and Michael argue about their relationship, but he makes no effort to intervene in any way. Friedlander tells him to let his rage out, to which Michael acknowledges that he thinks he did. Michael continues to visit him, in one session blowing up about his life and how he's stuck living in a big house with no one who cares about his problems but Friedlander. Friedlander became one of the most respected and in-demand therapists in Los Santos, at his clinic on the Pacific Bluffs coastline. Friedlander and Michael De Santaīy 2013, Dr. Friedlander: " Walk-ins are more expensive, but I'm always happy to accommodate." Michael: " Sure, you'll accommodate me as long as I got money in my pocket, right?" ―Dr. Friedlander, who thought he might have gotten the doses wrong, took Michael off of the medications.ĭr. Seeing that this did not help him at all, Dr. At some point, he prescribed Michael with medications that caused him to constantly wet his pants, cry, sleep at the dinner table, and howl in the middle of the night. He was a regular contributor to a Mount Zonah Medical Center radio show called "Debrief Encounters" before it was cancelled, and was featured on the TV show Rehab Island as a psychological pundit.Ī few years prior to 2013, he began treating former bank robber Michael De Santa as he dealt with a midlife crisis, meeting once a week. In the 1980s, Friedlander helped expose the culture of narcissism in the ganglands of San Andreas and also criticized it for its "overuse of hyphens". Throughout his years as a therapist, he treated both celebrities and criminals, becoming leading authority in the field of sociopathic personality disorder. He then began practicing psychotherapy in 1987. According to his website, Friedlander received a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of San Andreas, Los Santos in 1984 and a doctorate degree in psychology in 1986 from an unknown defunct learning institution. Friedlander was bullied, with girls calling him "pube head" due to his curly hair.
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