I appreciate your insights from your research Restin. But it seems too easy and self-serving for all those old school fathers of psychotherapy to just say that the answer is more therapy. I mean does anyone ever follow up with the folks who leave therapy because of transference issues and try to address their needs in some other way? Has anyone created an alternative intervention (to just more therapy) and evaluated what happens with the intensity of transference? I mean these guys have contributed a lot to the field and have some brilliant ideas. What they do not have is rock solid methodology.

Without a comparator group it's hard to call this stuff science. It's kind of more like religion: you just have to keep on believing and when things go awry you take it as a sign to double down on your faith. Which is fine for some I guess, but having faith isn't my style. So the transference thing wigs me right out and I feel skeptical when folks say that the answer is just more therapy. OTOH it's not like I have a much better idea though!