I think a problem with the test case in the article is, if the patient is that attached to the parent, as I was, you can't go thru these steps without talking about them to the parent! Which sort of defeats the purpose, the intent, the progress. Could be I'm just dumb, but that's what happened to me. How does the T break your attachment to the parent, especially in these days of helicopter parenting? Or in the case of abuse, you always want to think it's your own fault - I thought, if only I could explain it right. That's why I'm always proposing to my T - it's my substitute for trying to get my mother to like me.