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Originally Posted by ListenMoreTalkLess
Therapy is not set up as "normal give and take," in fact it's the opposite, where disclosure is not supposed to be reciprocal. I'm unaware of any legitimate school of therapy that suggests equal disclosure between therapist and client.
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I don't think that "normal give and take" implies equal at all. A good relationship is not one where its members concern themselves with exactly equal contributions, only that there is productive exchange.
One example of a particularly influential school of therapy which does advocate for therapists' self-disclosure is that of Rogerian therapy, a.k.a. person-centered therapy, which has been around since the 1950's, and which refers to it as a core element of the six "necessary and sufficient conditions required for therapeutic change":
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3. Therapist congruence, or genuineness: the therapist is congruent within the therapeutic relationship. The therapist is deeply involved him or herself — they are not "acting" — and they can draw on their own experiences (self-disclosure) to facilitate the relationship. (source)"
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Most contemporary critical psychoanalysts also advocate for it; maybe some of the old textbooks need to get caught up.. probably most of all though, a large majority of individual therapists just need to work harder not to fall into seemingly convenient but unproductive habits of so wholly cloaking themselves from the process.