There is also the matter of the attachment bond and the possibility that a client may try to preserve this even in the face of wrongdoing or incompetence. I found this terribly conflicting. Even now when someone begins to criticize my ex T, based on what i have reported, I can't decide if I should join in or defend her. In the past I would never have understood how unmet attachment needs from childhood, once activated in therapy, could affect one so powerfully.