I guess I think about how in order to train as a psychoanalyst you need to have successfully completed a course of psychoanalysis. That means... that while psychoanalysts are training they are learning about therapy (and different ways therapy might go, different techniques, different defenses etc) at the same time as they are in therapy themselves. That is meant to be... A GOOD thing. Studying therapy while doing therapy is meant to help provide insights etc. Of course, what one learns can be helpful (when it aids the understanding) or harmful (when it is used as a defense). But... I don't worry at all about learning about therapy and different techniques etc while I'm in therapy.

And I guess one day... I won't be in therapy anymore. Instead... I'll have managed to internalize those techniques enough such that I can help myself and / or I'll have found some friends who can give me a hand with seeing things from a slightly different pov... Perhaps... All the world can be theraputic, really.