Anyone ever heard of "Anna O."? It is a famous case out of the days of yesteryear. In particular, she was a patient of Josef Breuer, a collaborator of Sigmund Freud. Her therapy did not succeed, at least partly because the therapist panicked when he realized what was happening. I think therapists now, at least the good ones, know a lot more about transference than they did then. "Anna O." was actually Bertha Pappenheim, and books have been written about what happened with her after her therapy "failed". It is not a totally happy story, but I found it highly interesting. You can really learn a lot from things that happened in the past. Especially if you think you understand more of what it was all about than they did themselves!