Seductive has erotic connotations attached to it. It is quite disturbing to attach this word to the therapeutic space. Who seduces? Who is being seduced? If I had a therapist who found therapy seductive, or described it as such, for one they’d be in the wrong job & secondly i’d be out that door.

At most therapy creates some sort of illusion of, or one-sided, intimacy in the sense that the client divulges their inner workings and ‘real’ self etc. But that’s it. The T doesn’t reciprocate. The T-client relationship doesn’t have to be all clinical and cold, but it is not a friendship, it is not where seduction takes place -or at least shouldn’t be. It is a cooperation between two people where there can be amicable warmth but attaching 'seduction' to this context?! This is cringeworhty. And, for me at least, the wrong word entirely. The concept itself is plain wrong.