My therapist demonstrated little or no understanding of attachment or developmental trauma as a central part of what was happening, even in the aftermath when I began talking about specifically about attachment-abandonment. She did not label me with diagnoses, but she did pathologize me in many more subtle ways. Instead of recognizing what was happening and seeing my extreme behavior as a direct result of what she provoked, she pushed me away and made it about my failure to understand, my lack of "skills", my refusal to submit to her authority. Partly it was cowardice too, not wanting to face what she had done. It's incredible that a mental health professional would seemingly lack such basic knowledge and awareness.