I'm just gonna throw this out there

[bucolic_frolic]

Transference is one of the most devious and unnecessary aspects of psychology. There are countless tales online of people who bought into the deception and were unable to disconnect, or felt harmed, or suffer long term emotional pain because they accepted the delusion and thought it was real. Some, worse, became involved with their therapists. Pulling on people's heart strings for medical care? To me an absurdity and avoidable if full disclosure occurred up front. The idea that it's good and is the only way to work on vulnerabilites in a therapeutic environment?

Jeffrey Masson's "Final Analysis" revealed a lot about the psychology profession by exposing Freud's compromises with Victorian high society. In my view, Masson did a great service to the misled masses.