I find the topic of therapist self-disclosure to be utterly bizarre. In other close relationships, disclosure and vulnerability and openness arise spontaneously. In therapy the professional seems to be constantly battling to suppress their natural impulses in favor of some highly speculative theoretical model.

The defense of this is that it is an "art" and not a science. Still, it's all so convoluted. Therapy seems often to strangle all normality out of human interaction.