Managing transference... how is that not a colossal manipulation? Screwing with the needs of a vulnerable human being, presenting a contrived persona as authentic, keeping method and risks and track record a secret, evading questions, applying "techniques" to produce a conditioned response, encouraging the continuation of the relationship for profit and gratification, encouraging trust and vulnerability without earning it, deliberately withholding information, frustrating the client's needs for effect, imposing arbitrary boundaries. The list goes on. This is run of the mill stuff.

Therapists are consummate manipulators. Sometimes it's subtle and well camouflaged. That's why it's dangerous. And because it's done with a smile.