A therapist I know outside her practice is one of the most obnoxious
attention seeking, domineering, arrogant human beings I have the misfortune
of suffering. She actually tells people she's "brilliant." She sees herself as a magical healer and condescendingly administers unsolicited "therapy" talking to them as if they're kindergarten students. She brags incessantly. I can imagine her using her practice--she bills herself as a "grief expert" no less--as a stage for her superiority and fabulousness.

My therapy was a variation of this, teaching me poor boundaries. My woman therapist, though not as abhorrent as this woman, still enforced herself as socially and intellectually superior, and me as her fawning stooge. I can read her writings years later and realize what a banal kook she is, Ivy League education and all.

I hate what therapy did to me as a person. And I can frequently spot those traits in others who been through it.