I have been in therapy awhile and I have nothing against them but I think they got to be a bit masochistic to do their jobs. The setup in therapy is what causes the pain. They have you act like they are nonjudgmental, that they are there to listen, that they care about you, etc but in reality life is not like this. The power differential I think has a lot to do with it. I am going to be leaving my therapist of six years in October. While it is hard for me and devastating and painful, I doubt she feels any of this. She will go about her life seeing other clients and I get to grieve the loss of her.
I don't know, I am trying to understand all this. Maybe none of it makes any sense.