"I think learning to let in someone's positive regard and to thereby learn that interpersonal experiences with trust-worthy others can be rewarding IS what the therapy is."

I find this quite disturbing - if I don't go to the therapist to learn that interpersonal blah blah ******** - I certainly do not believe it is the therapist's place to inflict it upon me because of what that asshole thinks I should want or how I should be