I agree. Therapy can be constructed to trigger one's most helpless, childish state--with the therapist posing as the inscrutable authority as the client as troubled, defective invalid. I've seen strong, competent women get weak-kneed, regressed and mesmerized when talking about their therapists.

I personally didn't feel the therapy relationship had much parallel to relationships outside it. My response were unique in my experience. Nor I believe my susceptibility calls for some grand diagnosis or indication of an issue. My therapists played a manipulative game, and I had a a human reaction to it.