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I think that that is going to be a moderately big-issue at the beginning of Season Six. At the same time, I don't think you can say it's her fault. She tells Tony, as she would anyone, to own their feelings and stop dicking around with everybody.
Unfortunately, most other patients wouldn't see that as a qualifier to murder, because, well, most other patients (however disturbed) don't consider murdering their own cousin to be a suitable way of taking ownership of their feelings. The fact Tony lives by a different moral compass doesn't necessarily put Melfi at fault for telling him what she'd tell any other patient, especially one she was finding so frustrating (and she has become frustrated with Tony: his less frequent visits are part of that, because she makes less and less progress with him every time).
At the same time... she knows how difficult Tony's area of work makes her job, and she's been so loathe to have anything to do with it. And suddenly she has this big outburst, essentially just losing it and saying "Jesus Christ, get over yourself" which is not necessarily the thing to tell Tony Soprano. So she's stuck: she can bottle up her professional opinion and not attempt to change him, or she can try to help him but run the risk that that will induce more crime - be it burglary, GBH, or murder.
I think the killing of Tony B takes the place of Jackie Junior's murder as my favourite completely-offhand-way-to-off-major-guest-character the series has put up yet.
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