AY - I don't think it is quite the same. Your therapist seems to be doing pacification/placation in an oddly social way - white lies greasing the wheels of your exchanges so that she looks good or gets herself off the hook, etc.

An example would be this exchange with CW (early conversation on the Smaug episode):

CW: I think you reacted as you did because it triggered an earlier life experience.
ATAT: That's possible, but you know, just because an event does that, doesn't mean the event isn't horrible in and of itself.
CW: Oh, no. Of course not.
(And then we go on to talk about how I feel about the whole episode.)

So she sees the possibility of a confrontation and although she doesn't retract her opinion or make excuses for herself or any attempt at conciliation (in fact I know she still holds that opinion), she stops pushing it.

Maybe Pennster has a better example.

The BBC... Want me to bop her for you?