When Dr. Jack Gallagher, a young, dynamic and radically unorthodox psychiatrist, arrives for his first day at Wharton Memorial Hospital, he must confront not only his patients’ disorders, but also his own staff who remain resistant to his methods and ideology.

When Jack and the staff treat a woman suffering from “hysterical pregnancy,” they discover her OG/GYN husband is more deluded than she is.

Jack fights a battle of wits and wills with famed professor, author, philosopher – and now catatonic patient – Gideon Graham.

When a bipolar, eight-year-old boy is admitted to Wharton Memorial to be treated for an “accident” with a knife, Jack discovers the only way to reach him is through a video game that exists only inside the child’s head.

When a movie star is brought into the hospital after suffering what looks to be a psychotic break – during an appearance on a nationally televised talk show – he admits to “faking it” to prepare for a role, but Jack suspects a genuine psychiatric disorder.

Jack’s got his hands full as he tries to stop a gambling addict from committing suicide, and also testifies in a murder trial, providing expert testimony to prevent a mentally incompetent, innocent man from being wrongfully convicted.

When a germaphobe with OCD and Tourette’s arrives at the hospital for an unproven surgery he hopes will cure him, the staff discovers it is his wife who is pushing for the surgery, even while battling her own serious condition.

While trying to treat Heather, a high school track star who attempted suicide by setting herself on fire, Jack and his team uncover a shocking secret about her true identity.

While Jack attempts to help a traumatized autistic girl identify her father’s killer, Arturo receives an unwelcome visit from his father, a know-it-all soap opera actor who plays a doctor on television.

When Billy, a construction worker suffering from the physical and psychological pain of an on-the-job accident, presents symptoms of a near-identical but more severe accident that occurred on the same site more than 100 years earlier, his diagnosis and treatment puzzles both Jack and Carl.

When Clay, an Iraq War veteran, shoots himself in the hand in front of his family, Jack tries to help him remember the wartime attack that traumatized him…with surprising results.

Arturo and Chloe enlist Jack’s help to treat Brian, a patient who “accidentally” cut off two of his own fingers and refuses to allow a surgeon to reattach them.

A man claiming to be a werewolf takes Jack and his staff hostage at Jack’s apartment where they have all gathered to solve a hospital budget crisis.