I have a slightly different take.

I've seen my psychoanalytic T for 3 years, with varying frequency from 1-4x/week (currently at 4x/week). I have had a VERY strong negative transference at times, which was really really hard for a year or 2. We finally got into a bit of a rupture in which I felt like she was hammering me with interpretations....and as I thought about it, I had made myself like a nail....hard, unyielding, sharp, pointed. And as she started to see how sensitive and fragile I can be, and as I started to try to be more open and less "nail-like" - we started moving forward. I'm not sure I would've gotten there if I hadn't come to really agree with modern psychoanalytic theory. For awhile, I do think my intellectual understandings served as a kind of holding environment.

The fact is that I would have difficulty establishing trust and a working alliance with any T. I have pretty intense early relational trauma in my history, and my mother has even more intense trauma in her very early history. I've had different Ts, and none of them got past the very very superficial places. What if you went in and either read a letter or stayed in a really adult mode and talked about your therapy?