Alienist

These doctors specialize in handling the criminally insane and healing the mind through the use of mesmerism or the recently developed technique of psychoanalysis. Their understanding of the fragility of the human mind can be of great use to unstable Rippers. Dr. Seward is one of Van Helsing’s original vampire slayers, and an alienist of considerable skill. A few alienists have disciplined themselves to the point where they can affect their surroundings through sheer willpower. These people are known as “sensitives” or “psychics.”