In preparation for this week’s edition of our psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays, we’ve been reading up on this fascinating new research whereby doctors and scientists have been able to track the brain chemistry of coupling mammals. After all, what could be more Freudian than libido-liberating animal sex? More interestingly though, the research could eventually lead to the development of love potions and antidotes, which would put the doctors behind these experiments in an exceptionally powerful position.

Then again, there’s always been something sexual about the kind of power wielded by doctors, no? After all, they know our bodies better than we do, some (psychiatrists, like Doctor Sigmund Freud) can discover buried desires that we won’t even acknowledge, and their degrees and certificates give them socialized license to do all sorts of things to us that we would only let other strangers do to us after they’d slipped us some love potion. All in all, doctors are powerful Freudian figures of sexual authority to whom we must pay homage so they don’t take too much advantage of us during our appointment next week. In that spirit here are Listicles’ 10 Sexiest Movie Doctors. (”sexiest” denoting not necessarily attractiveness but especially sexual power.)

Doctors Alex Hesse, Larry Arbogast and Diane Reddin (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito and Emma Thompson, respectively) in Junior

Doctor’s sexual powers run so rampant in this film that they become incestuous and perverted. This three-way love triangle finally leads to a fantasy of controlled breeding to create an all-doctor super-race.

Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) in Young Frankenstein

Frankenstein’s monster has long been considered the doctor’s externalized id, a primal machine to carry out his repressed impulses, as happens here.

Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss) in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

One of the most successful adaptations of the Frankenstein myth to film, this German Expressionist classic has Caligari sending his monster Cesare to do his dirty work.

Twin gynecologists Beverly and Elliot Mantle (both Jeremy Irons) in Dead Ringers

Cronenberg + twin gynecologists = doctors behaving badly.

Dr. Godfrey (Josh Pais) in Teeth

In this gynecology-revenge film, super-sexual doctors go up against another powerful Freudian symbol, Vagina Dentata.

Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) in The Elephant Man

Using freakiness as an allegory for homosexuality in Victorian London, David Lynch gives us this coded story of an unconventional doctor-patient relationship.

Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfus) in What About Bob?

In this brilliant film, the doctor’s sexual power is turned against him when a patient’s (Bill Murray) latent homosexual desire for his psychoanalyst makes him go insane. Also, Dr. Marvin’s son’s name is Siggy, short for Sigmund.

Dr. Constance Peterson (Ingrid Bergman) in Spellbound

With its overblown psychoanalytics and Salvador Dali-designed dream sequences, Hitchcock’s ode to Dr. Freud grasps (a little awkwardly) the sexual power of the psychoanalyst.

Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) in the X-Men franchise

As you may remember, with her super-psychic powers and telekinetic abilities, Grey might as well have a spin-off series called Superdoctor. Interestingly, it’s always when she and Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) play doctor that the sexual tension between them becomes unbearable.

Dr. Paige Marshall (Kelly MacDonald) in Choke

This sexualized doctor subverts the trend by rendering her sex addict love interest (Sam Rockwell) impotent. Doctors can wield their sexual powers both ways.