I was talking to my therapist about places to live because it's getting too congested where I live now. At one point, she mentioned someplace in bumblefuk nowhere and added that there used to be a pdoc there who was well known at the time for her expertise in dissociation. It turned out that I had actually been referred to that pdoc about 20 years ago and couldn't stand her. My therapist said that people who saw her loved that she would smoke with them. I said that sounded manipulative. My therapist disagreed.

Does anyone else think it's manipulative? Like, trying to make people think they're just hanging out, meanwhile the pdoc is being controlling and plotsy?