It does seem that therapy relationships can bring out infantile longings and unmet needs and early caretaker patterns, but i think the extent that it does this in a predictable, meaningful way is vastly overstated. I also think the idea that this can somehow be managed and parlayed into healing by the therapist is way way oversold and borders on the absurd. It probably ends in disaster quite often. With my last one we did talk about the relationship, almost exclusively for a while. I can certainly speculate in a very vague way in terms of what I was projecting. Did this help in my life? Nope. It wrecked me.