For some, though, if the T happens to be offering what the client really really needs -- validation, attunement, understanding -- and is delivering it in just the right way that seems to promise to fill in some massive hole of deprivation from the past, the client might well be hooked and become dependent, regressed, attached. More so if the client has not studied the workings of therapy, and the T has not given sufficient informed consent about what is or will be going on. And even if the client is aware and sees the game for what it is, it's harder to notice such things when you are in the grip of totally consuming feelings and impulses.