Dr. Isiah Friedlander

Background

Isiah Friedlander is a high-profile psychotherapist with a clinic on the Pacific Bluffs coastline. He says he holds a marketing degree from the University of San Andreas (1984) and a psychology doctorate from a defunct institution (1986), and he has practiced since 1987. He built a reputation on sociopathic personality disorder, treated celebrities and criminals alike, contributed to the radio show *Debrief Encounters* and appeared as a pundit on *Rehab Island*. A few years before 2013, he started seeing Michael De Santa weekly. One prescription left Michael wetting himself, crying and howling at night before Friedlander took him off it. Bryan Scott Johnson voices him.

Events of Grand Theft Auto V

Michael's sessions run through the story. In one, he vents about being stuck in a big house where nobody but his therapist cares. Friedlander urges him to release his rage, and Michael admits he already has. He later watches Michael and Amanda argue in a couples session without stepping in. In an optional final visit, Friedlander says he is leaving Los Santos for his own TV show and suggests he will use Michael's case. Michael chases him and can kill him or let him go. If spared, he emails an apology. If killed, a news article says he published Michael's sessions in a best-seller under the alias "Marky De Santos." That article appears either way.

Personality

He charges heavily for walk-ins, dodges responsibility and stays calm and clinical even when Michael explodes.

Trivia

• Los Santos Drug Wars made the sparing ending canon. He returns alive in GTA Online in 2023 as a pharmaceutical boss and main antagonist.
• He drives a red Comet.