Second part, sorry being an *** probably but, I think lots of arts an social sciences classes are easy As when you get the subject matter and if you're studying a BA, you better be doing it for its intrinsic value because otherwise why not just go into a professional field or trade?

First part, difference between profs and students and therapist and patient. Students are just there acquiring learning, profs are a research tool the "expert in the field" in an environment that promotes critical thinking and it isn't a power position. It's very different than a high school teachers position where teachers have authority over students. In university profs are more like peers who happen to be very knowledgable in certain subject matter.

Therapists are in a position of power and influence and their clients are there because they've got some kind of impaired thinking or problem and are giving up their own problematic behaviors and thinking to what is taught in therapy, ideally anyway haha. Much easier for a therapist to take advantage than some guy who just happens to know a lot about Victorian literature no?