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This is somewhat averted in the Batman: Animated Series episode "Fire from Olympus". Maximillian Zeus' assistant describes the onset of his issues -involving believing he was Zeus (delusions of grandeur and disassociation from reality)- as coming on gradually, as stress and guilt took their toll. It was a collection of cascading events, and at the end, there's no sign of him being cured.

Harley Quinn's also an interesting case. In ''[[http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Harley's_Holiday Harley's Holiday]]" she's released from Arkham after being declared cured -but her way of coping with a routine but stressful occurrence (a security tag left on a dress) shows that she has at best limited coping skills. And later, she seems to have relapsed. (Of course, that's also the status quo thing.)

The Psychonauts and Dominic Deegan examples are so undermined by qualifications of aversion or subversion that one wonders if they should be there. Likewise, someone who has actually seen Good Will Hunting could do us all a favour by deciding which of the two views given in that entry is actually correct.