I'll add to the rant. Am so struggling with the transference thing too. Especially since my T has been away for 3 weeks and and I'm abt to go away for a week myself. It is seriously doing my head in.

Mine is very much mom transference, I have a female therapist and I am female. My beloved mother is a narcissist, so as a child I'd experience wonderful love and affection from her only for it to be cruelly taken away. It was devastating to experience. Her love was very much conditional so to experience non-judgement and unconditional love from my T is simply sublime. But now of course I can't get enough of it!!!