No, I think my t just SAYS he wants to. He says it therapeutically? Symbolically? magically? We just have to fool my dinosaur brain into thinking it's been cared for, so it quits acting like a doofus in public. So that my first impulse is to act like a lady, not like a needy child. Speaking figuratively.

Eta: psychologically, we're replacing superego messages? Or a bad introject with a good introject.

Eta2: I'm the one who's been monkeying around in therapy for 40 years!