True though i think that when the T is the one identifying something as special treatment, it is no longer subjective. Now the client is hearing explicitly from this hired caretaker figure that they are special. If the client suffers from emotional neglect or attachment trauma, this might be received as the powerful validation they have always longed for. In my case there was a straight line from there to obsession, dependency, powerlessness, regression, and ultimately a terribly traumatic ending.

Seems to me that for some people the entire experience is a form of special treatment. Even with so called good boundaries, the lavishing of attention is completely intoxicating.