****This is my personal experience of therapists only.****

With one exception, mine mostly were so swept in their own self-admiring performances that the person on the receiving end was inconsequential. They apparently so needed to believe themselves Saviors that contrary evidence from their victims was merely inconvenient. From my view, therapy training certainly taught these people no authentic empathy. They were so theory-blinded and arrogant, I wonder if their training had the opposite effect.

A therapist I know in a nonprofessional setting sent me a series of emails telling me how admired she was. She literally told me she was brilliant. She's a socially inept buffoon in a normal setting; I dread her behavior with vulnerable clients.