In closed-door meetings at MTV, creators are grappling with how to make entertainment more responsible

“We’re still making television. We’re not making a psychological show,” Donna Edge-Rachell, an executive producer of “Love & Hip Hop,” which focuses on the professional and personal lives of people connected to the industry, said at a session for her show. “All of these people who are experiencing a level of this — we don’t want to go to therapy with all of them, we don’t want to sit in a chair and have them analyzed by a psychologist.”